How do magicians bend spoons

The straight stem will be held as if it is coming out of the spoon, giving the illusion that the spoon is straight.

Another way to complete this illusion is to not just bend the spoon with your mind , but to totally break it! Pick up this spoon. Show it to the audience, and let them know that you are going to focus your energy on it as hard as you can.

But the magicians do such a thing as if it? Only a rather slow person would accept this claim, but there seem to be a fair percentage of slow folks out there. Magicians often ask me how to bend a spoon to make it look like a miracle. I tell them they won? Yep, that? The obvious next question is, "How do you make sure they? You have lots of opportunity to move around. Excuses like, "Let? You may not think that people will excuse your holding the spoon in both hands?

Of course, as soon as you? Get bossy. Tell people where to stand, and keep on talking. Cover the spoon with your hands so that they can? And always attribute the success of the miracle to the subject? In recounting it afterward, you specify that the spoon was being held by another person while it bent. And yes, that will be believed, because it? But the best is yet to come. Before you rush on to another demonstration of as I always say "a semi-religious nature," give the spoon a quick further bend, and discard it.

As soon as it? When the spoon is retrieved later, lo! There is currently available on the market a fork that can be freely shown in an unbent condition, then placed down in full sight while it literally arches up into a degree bend all by itself, and can be thoroughly inspected immediately afterward.

This is a pricey "prop," and well beyond the amateur budget.? You must log in or register to reply here. Post thread. CPUs and Overclocking. Graphics Cards. AnandTech is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Visit our corporate site. All rights reserved. The audience must be straight in front of you for this trick. If you like, you can demonstrate the spoon is an ordinary spoon by rapping it against the table, or letting the audience handle it.

Push the spoon against the table while letting it fall backward. Place the tip of the bowl against the table and pretend to push hard. Push the spoon down with your lower hand so the audience can see the effort.

Meanwhile, keep your upper hand in the same vertical position, but let the spoon fall backward. Let the spoon handle rest on the ring and little fingers of your lower hand. Pretend to straighten the spoon. Show the audience your magic ability by "returning" the spoon to its unbent state. This can be as simple as running your hands over the spoon, then lifting it to show the audience.

Just make sure the audience does not see the straight spoon while it is still supposed to be bent. Method 2. Be realistic. This technique can look good on camera, but you won't fool a live audience, particularly not up close. It could conceivably work live if done at a distance, but as there is no simple way to produce an unbroken spoon, it would be difficult to end well. Break the spoon. If you have a hacksaw you can use it to cut the bowl of the spoon off the handle. If not, manually bending the spoon back and forth a few times should do the trick just as well.

Sand down any sharp edges when you are done. Hold both parts of the spoon between your pointer finger and thumb. Grip the two parts of the spoon in such a way that it creates the illusion you are holding a whole spoon.

Loosen your grip gradually. Both sides of the spoon will droop downward, creating the illusion that it is bending. Make sure not to loosen your grip so much that you drop part of the spoon.

Method 3. You can do this manually or with a hacksaw. Bend the other spoon. This trick will take some practice to be convincing. When you're done, simply pick up the spoon off of the table with both hands and then show that the spoon is unbent.

Many magicians perform mentalism style effects where spoons are apparently bent by using the "power" of the mind. In these tricks, the spoons are actually bent and in many cases, destroyed. In this spoon bending trick, the spoon isn't harmed in any way. You could present and perform this one as a destruction and restoration effect where you apparently bend and damage the spoon and then bring it back to its original state. The other way to present this effect as a quick gag or bit.

You, the trickster, simply grab a spoon from the table and then appear to bend it. And everyone has fun being fooled and looking at others' reactions to your little stunt. Since you're not actually bending the spoon, this one can be particularly fun at a party where you take a host's spoon the more expensive the better and apparently bend it. It's a great piece of impromptu magic that can be done at any time you have a spoon. For more guidance and tips, you can learn this spoon bending trick in this instructional video.