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I'm adding a Spirit writing effect to a show I'm writing the script for. Looking for locking slates.

Any particular type or make of Slates you would recommend. I'm looking for something that works and holds up after hundreds of performances. Not just something pretty to look at, hold and caress.
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If you are looking for old school style slates - my opinion is the Dr. Q style outperforms magnetic style --- but it costs more.

Evewn better there are still routines that call for counting prepared slates (ala card counts) to produce results.

I do ot find white board slates at all appealing -- but I tend to the bizarre side.
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CH Mara,

Thanks for the info.

I picked up the Bazar de Magia Magnetic Slates at my local dealer here in Toronto. They are actually quite nice and will probably do what I need them to.

I've worked with white boards and blackboards (with chalk) and it comes down to visibility for me. Every white board I've ever used has created some kind of glare under stage lighting (or normal room lighting for that matter). With chalk on a black board I find the readability at great distances to be the best.

I guess I'm more interested in getting the info that I'm writing across in a readable and visible way more than I'm concerned about being 'modern' or 'up-to-date'.

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Happy to hear I am not the only one looking for the "less than modern" approach.

So far the strongest slate work I have seen, BTW - is Rod Robison's using pre-work for the revelation. Eliminates forces -- only thing that can go wrong is if the pre-worked person chosen leaves before you get to the routine......
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It's funny you should mention that...

I've had that happen on two different occasions.
I still occasionally use pre-show methods, but always have a 'real-time' out or alternate.

Long live chalk dust!
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Hi Bill (and everyone else reading this),

I use a set of slates for my versionof Dean's Box. My routine runs about ten minutes and is themed on a real haunted house in our area. The slates is the final effect in the routine. I have a couple of different sets of Q slates, but I am always concerned about the noise factor. I finally settled on a Bazar de Magia set of locking slates and they are perfect. Besides, Quique and martin from bazar de Magia are great guys and i try to support their work. BTW, did you see their new version of the Stull Watch called SYKYS? I got one at FISM and it is a killer!

Marc DeSouza
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Marc,

Great to have you on the round table!
I am really impressed with the bazar de magia slates.
They work perfectly and look great.

I have the original timetrix watch, which I think is great, and saw the video (commercial) for the new SYKYS watch and it looks terrific! Maybe I'll try to "drop in" at your house on my way down to FLorida for my lecture tour to take a look at the watch and twist your arm to show me your slate routine....

See you soon,

Bill

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I have to second or third (I've lost count) the vote towards the magnetic slates. I've owned two different sets of Dr. Q slates, both by excellent craftsmen, and each one of them had two problems.

1) The noise factor.

2) Reliability.

The magnetic slates work perfectly every time.

There is another method that most people forget about, and that is the nonmagnetic flap with newspaper on the back of it. If you wrap your slates in newspaper, you can ditch the flap or flaps against it, and the newspaper will conceal the flaps. Classified ads work best for these.

If you can get a Massey Duplex Slate, that's good, too.
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Dr Q Slates - somewhere if I didn't lose the info, an old timer told me to replace the metal flap slate with a plastic cut out flap, spray paint with flat black stove paint? and allow to dry, the replacement flap is far more quiet and still takes chalk with no problem after the painting of the new flap.

I never got around to doing it, these are the instructions as I remember them, I am not totally sure on the type of paint.

- Stefan
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I think black stove paint may be more available, but if you search, you should be able to find blackboard paint.
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