This is being a classic semi-illusion most suitable for platform/ stage show. The performer displays a large wooden stock standing on the table. There are two holes, in the stock, one on top of the other some distance apart. The stock has also got a sharp steel blade fixed to a wooden handle, which can be moved up and down within the stock. First performer places a carrot in each hole of the stock, pushes down the steel blade, which clearly chops through both carrots, proving genuinity of the blade. However, when a spectator places his either hand in the top hole, a carrot being placed in the bottom hole and the performer pushes down the blade, it chops through the carrot, but spectator’s hand remains unharmed!