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Spoonbending Kits

I learned the trick of giving an audience member a spoon, getting them to hold it above their head while you retreat in to the audience, get them all to shout "bend", and then the person on stage takes the spoon down, looks, and finds it has bent. I've done it several times at ghost nights.

I love magic tricks. I just wish I was better at them!

cj x
 
Questioninggeller said:
Well, you're in luck. "The Truth About Uri Geller" by James Randi $25.00 explains it. Its a good starting point, and interesting back story. Ordering it through the JREF means Randi will sign it for you (if requested).
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Hmmm, I just read this book cover to cover yesterday and didn't learn how to bend spoons - other than by forcing the spoon when no one's looking, or substituting a bent one by sleight-of-hand, but he doesn't explain how that's done. Are you sure it's in there... or was that it?

Randi does describe several psychic tricks that he's done over the years that left me scratching my head. The most disheartening thing was the talkshow host who refused to properly answer Randi's question about whether he would consider Randi a psychic if Randi did exactly the same trick Geller had done (no doubt because he feared the follow-up question - whether he would consider Geller a fake if Randi could fake it).

And I didn't know I could get it signed. :( I just got it cheap at Amazon.
 
galla said:
...no doubt because he feared the follow-up question - whether he would consider Geller a fake if Randi could fake it.
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Calling Geller a fake seems to invariably bring on a law-suit. He probably wouldn't lose it, but it is a waste of time and effort. Instead he prefers to say that what Uri does with his psychic powers, he can do with trickery. The message gets across without fear of a court case.
 
How to bend a spoon.
1. Start with a spoon that is thin and straight across the width.
2. As a warm up bend the spoon with brute force. Then bend it back.
3. Then the rest is easy. You will soon be able to bend an un-bent spoon in front of an audience, without you giving away the secret.

I have just made a similar post here http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2207310#post2207310
 
rjh01 said:
How to bend a spoon.
1. Start with a spoon that is thin and straight across the width.
2. As a warm up bend the spoon with brute force. Then bend it back.
3. Then the rest is easy. You will soon be able to bend an un-bent spoon in front of an audience, without you giving away the secret.
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But in the case of a spoon that is handed to you, you wouldn't be able to pre-bend and unbend it. You'd have to substitute it, which means having exactly the same sort of spoon hidden up your sleeve.

(Are you saying that prebending the spoon weakens it? I'm not sure what you mean by "the rest is easy...")
 
EDIT: OOPS, WRONG THREAD - IGNORE THE FOLLOWING!



Galla,

Have you read that other thread yet?

If not, just read the early bits where there is a very good exchange between Flyboy and Mercutio. It would be sufficient to read just their posts. Mercutio then drops out, but continue to read Flyboy's posts till he reports on the spoon-bending party he attends.
The rest won't be of much use to you. It consists of a rather annoying exchange between Claus Larsen and Flyboy, a series of quite silly posts by our friend Ian and an unnecessarily nasty attack on Claus by a Dr. Adequate.

BillyJoe
 
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galla said:
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didn't learn how to bend spoons - other than by forcing the spoon when no one's looking, or substituting a bent one by sleight-of-hand, but he doesn't explain how that's done. Are you sure it's in there... or was that it?
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By George I do believe you've got it. I once saw Randi magically bend a key for a TV host on a Canadian TV show. They sat on opposite sides on a small table with Randi's right side to the camera and the host's left side. Randi did some talking, waved his left hand and at the same time reached under the table with his right and bent the key on one of the brackets on the table. A few seconds later the host's sight was redirected to the right hand with the key and he was absolutely amazed and mystified that it had been bent while he had been watching it the whole time! The audience, for once, was in on the trick.
 
This doesn't explain how a spoon is broken when the spoon is picked out by someone else and can't be substituted. Is it possible to break a spoon by sleight of hand, except when you get the chance to substitute it?
 
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