Craig Petty's Chop

Sorry that it's been a few days since my last review so here we go with Craig's Chop.

The Effect: A note, such as a £10 note or $1 note for example, is borrowed and the magician hands his pen (which may be brought in play in a magical way) over so that the spectators note is signed and screwed into a ball. A perfectly ordinary paper cup is brought into play that you may get from your local cafe and a whole amazing routine takes place where the note vanishes from under the cup and appears in front of the spectator in an obvious location. At one point the spectator has the cup laid on his hand as the magician makes the note vanish from his hand and at that very same moment the spectator holding the cup will feel the note drop into his hand from inside the cup as if teleportation magic has just taken place.
Taking the note into his hand again, the magician takes a lemon and the spectator can see what appears to be magician rubbing his fingers of the hand he picked up the note with being rubbed against the lemon and eventually, the hand opens to show the note has vanished. Upon cutting the lemon open, a note can be seen within and pulled out to be found that it is the very note signed by the spectator.

Personal Thoughts: Okayyyy opinion time. The package comes in the form of a DVD and items required to make this happen, and please note, not all the items in my photo above is included.
The routine is very well presented throughout the DVD and each of the several phases throughout is described in a very detailed way although I couldn't help feel that this was rushed a little to get this out as fast as possible. There is a part of this that I felt looked very much like the note was being tipped out of the cup very clearly into the hand which looks this way to a lay person too, where in actual fact, that isn't what happens at all and even the outcome of this particular part ended with the note in the hand which took away the spark a little because of suiting the already assumed method. This isn't to put you off though as this particular part can actually be improved not to look the way I described so there is no problem with that at all.

I feel that the DVD was missing something, even though it was very descriptive, but again, please do not be put off because on the whole, there is sooooo much you can do with this and really the DVD is just there just as a little push and guidance in the right direction to nudge you into super amazing killer effects of your own. With a little practise, this can also be done surrounded too and although it is called Chop, please don't think it's just another Chop Cup routine as this effect goes way beyond the boundaries of an ordinary Chop Cup and takes it to a whole new level. There is a nice bonus at the end that shows the routine on how to produce your Sharpie Pen from thin air and teleport it around with hilarious consequences.

This effect can be seen in action here: http://youtu.be/kRw0Sswc-QI
You can also get this product from here if you wish: http://www.worldmagicstore.com/chop-craig-petty-p-6523.html?osCsid=s6r63ibhf15sk5i3tvjnuuib64
Craig also has a Wizard FX site which may possibly have new information added at some point regarding Chop. I believe he has mentioned making additional information of various routines and uses for this.

The DVD - 6 out of 10 as it is great to help push you into the right direction. I feel if a little more time was put into it, cut down in some areas and edited in others the DVD could have been better.
Extra Bits Supplied: 9 out of 10 because there is so much you can do with this, in so many various ways and it will not take long for you to come up with your own routine. I don't want to give anything away but what would give this 10 out of 10 is an added storage feature so something wouldn't be lost so easy lol. Sorry about the riddle but you'll understand if you have it or get it (and I'm sure this gives nothing away too as it is irrelevant to the effect itself) ;)
Overall with all that's said and the fact that you can be creative with this in so many ways, I would probably give this between 8 and 9 out of 10, I'm indecisive but I do think that it is definitely worth it's current value which at the time of posting, is around £25.00

Please enjoy and let me know any opinions you may have as all is welcome :)

Thanks for reading and I'll be back soon.