Ong, Harapan: Close Culls ©2014 Harapang Ong, Vanishing Inc. Softcover, perfect-bound, 118 pages

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Comments: “Alongside the double lift and the pinky break, the cull is perhaps the most important move in card magic. Few people do the move correctly, and even fewer use the move for anything other than secretly sorting cards. That all changes with Close Culls."

Contents (from Vanishing Inc., page numbers courtesy Denis Behr's ConjuringArchive):

6 Introduction

11 The Spread Cull: detailed explanation
19 The Cavorted Aces: new treatment on Cavorting Aces
23 Cull the Police: robbers plot gets a modern facelift
30 Full Deck Oil & Water: A great way to end
35 Two Heads are Better than One: An unusual application of the spread cull
42 Slap Me Silly: A handling of Bill Goodwin’s "Slap Exchange"
51 The Delayed Cull: do a cull while showing both sides of the pack
57 The Cull Switch: a switch with the cull
60 The Buckle Replacement: One of Harapan’s most prized original moves
77 The Princess Card Trick Revisited: Princess Card Trick plot
81 SwitchSand: spread cull put to use within a Sandwich routine
86 Scattered Sandwich: A Sandwich routine
90 Indicated Replacements: Max Maven's "Third Degree" given the cull treatment
93 The Buckle-llectors: One of Harapan's crowning achievements in both method and effect
98 Utterly Mental Reverse: a direct application of Harapan's Cull Tap Reversal
107 A Convincing Card Fold: combines the cull with a devious card fold
114 Cull-our Change: visual transformation
117 Special Thanks