The Thin Model sawing is possibly the most familiar version of the sawing in half illusion, and probably the most commonly performed by contemporary magicians. Although replaced in many of the larger professional illusion shows by newer and more spectacular sawings such as Clearly Impossible and the Impossible Sawing, it is still widely performed by many magicians. The Thin Model was reputedly developed in the 1940s by Turkish illusionist Sati Zungur, although some credit Guy Jarrett with first