Hi, allow me to introduce myself. My name is unimportant at the moment. Have you been looking for an
illusion builder/engineer and a builder of the unusual? You may have trawled around all the other sites
constantly reading names being dropped of the good and the great and watched fancy edited videos
and doctored photographs. Then you will be surprised to find this site is honest and real. There will be
no photographs no videos and no name-dropping. So if you are not interested click off now.

You won’t see many photographs of my work, unless a genuine pro has taken candid ones in performance.
That’s because I don’t want to give my designs way. You bring yours and I will make them reality.

My name and telephone number is only given to those pros and semi-pros that have had illusions
made by me and if you ask them they wouldn’t tell you. They will spout out the names of most of
the American builders and don’t forget what came from the USA – the Masked Magician.

Do you want to go to a failed illusionist/magician or the new kids on the block or do you trust
someone with 30 years experience of building illusions with a secret workshop?

Contact me at:

thisroughmagic1@aol.com

Tel: 01189 320761
Fax: 01189 340756

You may have come across some of my earlier work that is now changing hands amongst patrons
in the business at extraordinary prices. Don’t be put off. I build illusions
for the future at reasonable prices for the present.

Illusion Building involves many disciplines:

• Master carpenter
• Master welder with mig, tig and stick
• Sheet metal fabrication
• Electrical engineer
• And of course, to keep up with the latest materials, eg. polycarbonates, styrenes, latexes etc.
• An open mind to create anew from a sketch on a napkin!

And if I don’t know how to do it, I know a man who does.

In the last 30 years I have made many illusions, too many to name. The real pros know they have got
the best and they are earning good money.

Out there you have got magicians claiming they have the rights to perform this and that and the rights to build
this and that. What a total load of bollocks. There are basic principles in magic that have been handed through
the ages: appear, vanish, levitate, transpose, escape and dismember. What most of them have done is find a
fancier piece of apparatus to do the above principles. So if you come up with a new principle
I will be happy to hear from you and I will make it reality. More


There was a time some years ago, whilst trying to do a car vanish in mid air in America, I came up against an
American magician who claimed he was the first to do a car vanish and, of course, he wanted money. In this
instance he got it and I hope he rots in hell.

I own the rights to sawing in half on the night of the full moon whilst balancing on three golf balls
juggling six rubix cubes and whistling Dixie – so don’t copy me!

I also own the rights to perform all magic and illusion on the nights of February 29th, 30th and 31st
each year whilst having my finger up my nose picking a bogey!

Be careful buying illusions that are said to be made by me. Look carefully, remove a few of the trimmings
and you will find my signature and date. If it is not there, it is not made by me.

I don’t belong to any Magic Circles. I choose not to belong to what is predominantly an amateur organisation.
I belong to the Secret Seven. It’s so f…..ing secret I don’t know who the other six are.

I don’t know who performed what in 19whatever, because frankly I couldn’t care less. I’m only concerned
with what is being performed now, tomorrow, next week, next month and who is clever enough to get
themselves a TV contract.

If you want to know who performed what in 19whatever ask one of those magical consultants who have learned
three card tricks and are usually bending over backwards for somebody at the BBC or the latest, in-vogue video
company.

Maybe you have had the misfortune to experience the Armani suited bullshitters whose only qualification is
to be able to smile at you whilst lying through their back teeth. They have always got the ability to talk
you into something and then when it’s all fucked up …gone wrong… the ability to persuade you it was all your
idea. But by then it has usually cost you money and a career slide.

If you’re a new and upcoming pro or semi-pro, by now you’ll possibly know, or be about to find out, that
the industry is 95% total bullshit.
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You have probably visited sites of failed illusionists/magicians now advertising designs and build
of illusions. Also you may have seen the new kids on the block with fancy computer generated designs
of illusions but out of scale with no dimensions or working drawings. These people suck you in, fleece you
of your money and then come round to my 3,000 sq ft workshop for me to make the illusion and, of course, it
has cost you double or treble the money.

There is a sign above my secret workshop known only to a few pros. I won’t name drop but they know who they
are and if they don’t know by now, I can’t help them. The sign say “THE BULLSHIT STOPS HERE” and I have at
hand anti-bullshit spray that I constantly spray around my workshop to ward off these bullshitters.