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Chop Cup
A gaffed cup with a built-in magnet in the base (or bottom), allowing the retention of magnetic balls or other loads. Used alone or as part of a cups and balls set.
Devised by Al Wheatley, a professional magician who performed under the name Chop Chop. His original Chop Cup was made out of a section of hollow bamboo.
The Chop Cup became a popular magician's tool in part due to the celebrity of Don Alan, who made it a staple of his act.
A fine introduction to the Chop Cup is available at Doug Atkinson's Magic Reference Pages
Here are a number of fine routines with such a cup from John Mendoza, Dan Tong, and James Swain. These are performances only. The DVD on which they appear (along with many other performances and full explanations) can be purchased from L&L Publishing at [1]
