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wol
Loyal user
Norfolk, UK
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Posted: Sep 19, 2004 7:01am
Any help, I know nothing on this subject and want to learn more!
Cheers!
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Burnt
New user
England
68 Posts
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Posted: Sep 19, 2004 1:51pm
There are may methods for spoon bending. I'm sure if you look on many different sites you can find DVDs on the subject or booklets.
The best spoon bend I have ever seen was by a street magician in Florida using a method shown on 'magic secrets revealed.' I'm sure you can find a copy of the show somewhere.
Spoon bending does actually use a lot of different old methods, all very easy to be caught out. I suggest you do coin or nail bending as used in Sean Feild's Explicit Content.
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Bill Palmer
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Posted: Sep 19, 2004 2:54pm
Get Banachek's "Psychokinetic Silveware." It is the source for the best work.
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wol
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Norfolk, UK
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Posted: Sep 19, 2004 7:13pm
Cheers!
Keep passing the open windows!
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lowphat
Loyal user
Michigan
235 Posts
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Posted: Sep 19, 2004 9:16pm
The best spoon bending routine I have ever seen is on Richard Osterlind's Mind Mysteries DVD. Watch it and I'm sure you will agree.
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Frank Starsini
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Northern California
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Posted: Sep 20, 2004 12:15am
The Banachek CD is great.
The Osterlind is great.
I really like the 'twist' on the banachek video. It's impossible for any explaination to exist so is perfect for getting started with bending.
The Banachek DVD is more in-depth because it's all about that one item. Get both.
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Jeff Hayden
New user
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Posted: Sep 20, 2004 2:22am
I second the Banachek's "Psychokinetic Silveware."
If you want to learn some amazing stuff get it.
It's THE AUTHORITY as far as I'm concerned.
-JH
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Harris0n
Loyal user
UK
253 Posts
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Posted: Sep 20, 2004 9:40am
Also, the Banacheck video/DVD contains footage of Banachek doing some spoon bending table hopping.
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xtreme_mixers
New user
92 Posts
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Posted: Sep 20, 2004 4:45pm
Get Banachek " psychokinetic silverwear, Richard Osterland 3 (I think ) and Bacachek psi series 4, pk. You can't go wrong.
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Jonathan P.
Inner circle
Belgium
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Posted: Sep 21, 2004 3:53am
Banachek, Osterlind and the new released "Liquid metal" will be a very nice arsenal of mentalist spoon bending.
But take a look at the Davis Williamson routine: it is more magic, more fun, but it is totally incredible and great. it was published in his (quite hard to find) sleight-of-Dave video, but those tapes are republished in his new DVD trilogy. (take a look at the forum about critiques of new DVDs for more info.)
Jonathan.
PS, Maybe, in a Café or animated restaurant, the Williamson appoach will be more appropriated than the mentalism one. BTW, I'd be glad to read your opinion about this very point!
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Joey Brummett
Elite user
Fort Myers, FL
427 Posts
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Posted: Sep 22, 2004 5:30pm
I liked Banachek's tape, but I thought Patrik Kuff's video was the best I'd seen on the subject.
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jcigam
Veteran user
Alaska living in Nebraska
380 Posts
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Posted: Sep 27, 2004 10:24pm
Bavoli has some nice spoon bending stuff. I have used a routine of his for a few years and it never fails to get great reactions.
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Bob Johnston
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Philadelphia, PA
1236 Posts
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Posted: Sep 28, 2004 4:13am
For Banachek lovers (and wol), consider this for a fun twist on “the twist.”
I diner I go to often, uses the same forks that I get for fork ”bending.” I get them at Wall Mart, cheap.
As I was waiting for my weekly spaghetti at diner, I prepared a fork “twist.” After I was into my eating, I replaced the restaurant fork with my gimmicked one and called the server over to my table.
I told her that something happened to my fork as I was twisting my spaghetti. Not only did she gasp in surprise, but also had others help her go through the fork basket, looking to see if any other forks failed.
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Candin
Inner circle
Kingdom of Nye
6684 Posts
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Posted: Sep 28, 2004 7:17am
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w!=art
New user
Amsterdam, Netherlands
14 Posts
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Posted: Oct 24, 2004 6:30pm
Get the perfect bend at hocus pocus
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Gideon Sylvan
Special user
Deerfield, IL
541 Posts
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Posted: Oct 24, 2004 6:45pm
I doubt this is appropriate for restraunts, but for anything else I use the Liquid Metal routine. It is the best metal bending routine I have ever seen, I highly recomend you getting it.
You know you are a magician when you have boxes full of lecture notes you have never read, but still are excited about going out and buying more.
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Candin
Inner circle
Kingdom of Nye
6684 Posts
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Posted: Oct 25, 2004 1:04am
Get banachek " psychokinetic silverwear , richard osterland 3 ( I think ) and bacachek psi series 4, pk, you cant go wrong .
What is the primary difference between PK Silverware and PSI Series 4? I read the description for Series 4 and it looks like it has everything needed for Spoon Bending ala the Banacheck way.
Thanks!
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Daegs
Inner circle
USA
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Posted: Oct 25, 2004 2:20am
Actually they are very different.
PK silverware has a close-up/stage routine with audience members that uses 2 forks and is a progresive routine. Many bends and the twist are used close-up right in front of them.
PSI Series 4, while it includes a neck bend, tine bend and a twist, they are not explained as part of a close-up routine, but mearly used for a "bag method" where each is bent as they are dropped into a bag.
PSI 4 also has a really nice fork switch, a new bend not taught on PK silverware and many other great things like keys and nails and coins.
I think that PSI 4 is a great addition, but I don't think that by watching *just* that DVD you would be able to perform a great close-up routine with fork bending.
A good analogy would be 2 card DVD's that both use a double lift.
One DVD might teach you an awesome close-up routine using a double lift, while another DVD might show you a different trick with the double lift...
Just the second DVD teaches a double lift(or in this case a tine bend, ect), does not mean it also allows you to perform the great close-up routine taught on the first DVD.
Sorry if that is hard to follow, but I feel that the 2 DVD's compliment each other, without overshadowing either's material.
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Candin
Inner circle
Kingdom of Nye
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Posted: Oct 27, 2004 12:45am
Thanks Daegs! I follow ya:)
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BananaTop
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Posted: Oct 30, 2004 1:12pm
There was a good spoon bending routine on MONDO MAGIC ON A&E last Monday @ by cris korn
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Candin
Inner circle
Kingdom of Nye
6684 Posts
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Posted: Oct 31, 2004 1:24am
Darn it, I never hear about these before hand:(
I bought Chad's Mind Bender DVD off of EBAY. I loved his demo and I heard there was a big shortage of spoons in N.C. when it first released:)
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dearwiseone
Elite user
Portland, OR
452 Posts
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Posted: Oct 31, 2004 1:30am
Candini,
Go to allmagicguide.com There is a TV listings section that lists anything and everything having to do with magic that's on TV. You'll find everything there and never miss anything again! Good luck!
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Candin
Inner circle
Kingdom of Nye
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Posted: Oct 31, 2004 2:36am
Awesome! Thank you!
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Daegs
Inner circle
USA
4155 Posts
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Posted: Oct 31, 2004 2:40am
I've said this before, but JB Ben(the guy who did spoon bending on mondo magic) is by far the worst TV magician that I've seen personally. His effects are confusing and his patter unintelligible.
Anyway, the method he used was very very bad for TV and was even caught in the middle of one of his bends.
Literally he would bring his hands together and use both to put a strong bend in, right when the camera was looking straight at him.
The laymen that I invite over for mondo magic(my friends) all caught it, and screamed "He is just bending it when they aren't looking".... not a high point of the show.
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Candin
Inner circle
Kingdom of Nye
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Posted: Oct 31, 2004 2:45am
Sad.............on TV I mean.....
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MDS
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Matthew David Stanley, USA
526 Posts
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Posted: Oct 31, 2004 10:55pm
David Williamson has a great comedy spoon bending routine. If you have the opportunity to see it, DO.
Matthew
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Candin
Inner circle
Kingdom of Nye
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Posted: Nov 1, 2004 1:53am
Thanks Matthew, I've been hearing that form others also.............
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liam-j-gilbert
Regular user
Leeds, England
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Posted: Nov 4, 2004 12:50pm
There is a lot of metal bending, not spoons specifically, in "Explicit Content" by Sean Fields. I cannot comment as I have not read the book however the write ups all seem pretty good.
Hope this Helps
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jugglingeagle
New user
Minneapolis, MN
25 Posts
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Posted: Jan 29, 2005 4:16pm
Check out morgan strebler's liquid metal on penguin magic. It's an awesome fork bending routine and it comes with a key bending routine and some other stuff as well.
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Ken Dyne
Inner circle
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Posted: Jan 31, 2005 8:55am
The best spoon bend without doubt is that of The Amazing Johnathan, as performed on Stuff the White Rabbit, very visual and can be performed under scientific conditions
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