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Roughing Fluid
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Roughing Fluid is a solution that can be applied to playing cards to cause them to stick together.
Being used by card magicians by at least the 1930s for Rough and Smooth effects, the first solutions were made with diachylon (lead plaster).[1]
Magic Christian, in his book "Non-Plus Utra Volume 2", states that Hofzinser used diachylon for a trick, but not for the traditional rough and smooth effects.
References
- CHAPTER VI: CARD MYSTERIES EMPLOYING DIACHYLON, Encyclopedia of Card Tricks (1937)
- Page 497 5. Diachylon Thought Control, Card Magic: a Practical Treatise on Modern Card Conjuring (1945)