Designer: Robert Harbin

Head Off was created by Robert Harbin and detailed in the “Magic of Robert Harbin. Owners of this book are authorized to build and perform the illusion.

Head Off won a Eurovision Magic show contest for the Magic Circle and Great Britain versus Holland and France. An assistant is placed into a cabinet. The cabinet contains two vertical sections and both are able to be opened. The assistant stands in the leftmost partition and the door is closed. A stock is placed around her neck and her head is slid to the side leaving her body, hands, and feet in place. Her head is slid back into place, the stock removed, and she emerges unharmed.

https://youtu.be/WvOUz4_r8w4

Craig Dickens built this double version for Milan Forzetting.

https://youtu.be/syHQZb_mMBo