Rating Pencil – Easy beginner trick!

This item goes all the way back to an idea by Ken Brooke who used a wooden pencil to change a coin to another by simply tapping on it. In Ken’s method wax was involved and at times this caused problems.

In this modern rendition the operation is much simplified

The basic performance goes like this: A penny is placed on the back of a spectator’s hand. You tap it with your mechanical pencil and it visually changes to a dime! An impressive, close-up trick that is easy to do. Dime and pencil can be examined.

Why is it called the “rating Pencil?
It used to be a bar trick where you place a penny on a girls hand and tell her that the penny will rate how pretty she is. Tap it with the pen and she becomes a perfect “10”……..

In Wolfgang Wollet’s routine this trick is used as follows:
The spectator is asked to visualize a Dime. The performer draws a dime on a small paper but his drawing skills prove very limited! So he takes a real Dime from his pocket and places it beside the drawing for comparison. The spectator remarks that it is a Penny. The penny is tapped briefly and in full view and changes into a real Dime!

Mechanical Pencil styles vary.

Very easy to do but absolute baffling! We supply the Mechanical Pencil and the very special something that makes this possible and English instructions. You provide an ordinary US Dime.