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Postby Bundy » Mar 14th, '06, 23:29



Hi,

I have the perfect bend. It looks just like you can see in the video preview on that site.

What they say:
This has to be the most incredible metal bending we've ever seen! And it looks just like it reads!

The performer picks up a spoon on the table, holds it at his fingertips, and proceeds to concentrate. Slowly, eerily, and methodically, the bowl of the spoon begins to bend until it is at a 90 degree angle. So far, nothing original, until you TAKE THAT VERY SAME SPOON and display it in its bent position, dropping it on the table. WHOA! The best part are the conditions:

No special set-up involved
No chemicals
Completely self-contained
The gimmick is nearly invisible
Can be performed completely surrounded
Can be instantly repeated with no reset involved
You can choose whether the body of the spoon or the bowl of the spoon bends!

what i say:
The performer picks up a spoon.
That is possible, but a bit tricky. It's better to present the spoon while holding it in your hand, or it might bend too soon while picking it up.

until you TAKE THAT VERY SAME SPOON and display it in its bent position, dropping it on the table.
As they say, the gimmick is nearly invisible. But dropping the spoon with the gimmick on the table would give away the secret, so i think saying you take that very same spoon and drop it on the table is misleading. You switch the gimmicked for an ungimmicked one, and drop that one on the table.

no special set-up involved
if you want to pick the spoon up from the table you need a small setup.

No chemicals
Completely self-contained

true

The gimmick is nearly invisible
nearly invisible from most angles (90% angle proof i'd say). I think it's easy to spot when you hold the spoon completly still like he holds it at the end of the video preview (but on camera it's almost invisible). Waving it a bit after it's bend covers up the gimmick quite nicely. Maybe it's just because i know what the gimmick is, it might be more invisible than i think when you don't know what to look for.

Can be performed completely surrounded
true

Can be instantly repeated with no reset involved
not if you switched the gimmicked for the ungimmicked one ...

You can choose whether the body of the spoon or the bowl of the spoon bends!
true


I haven't used it yet, because i think my switch from gimmicked to ungimmicked is not smooth enough yet.
I don't know Psychokinetic Silverware, so i don't know what would be better to get.


Hope this helps a bit.

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Postby taneous » Mar 15th, '06, 07:53

Nice review Bundy

I do a spoon bend where the spoon visually bends ie. they see it bending - almost melting over. Then I take the same spoon and it slowly twists in front of their eyes. I then give them the same spoon (bent and twisted) to take home with them and keep. Some people walk around with the bent spoon in thier handbags for months afterwards and if they see me they show me that they still have it. (Thanks to Harry Lorayne's books I've started remembering some of their names as well!). Totally ungimmicked and can be done with almost any spoon or fork. (and I'm actually using the power of the mind :wink: )

So - I certainly wouldn't get the perfect bend..

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Postby Bundy » Mar 15th, '06, 19:45

Thanks for the review. What are your overall opinions of this then. If you lost it, would you buy it again?

If you can switch the gimmicked for the ungimmicked spoon it's a good effect. I didn't see the switch when it was demonstrated in the shop. I first thought this was some sort of bending device, like that coin bending gimmick (superman is the name i think).

This trick is easy to do. The hardest part is switching the spoons, at least for me, I'm not that good at these things. I don't know any other bending effects, so i can't say if this effect is any good compared to other effects. Maybe Taneous can tell us what effect he uses, as his description sound pretty good.

And if i ever lost the Perfect Bend, i would not buy it again. Now i know how it's done i can make it myself with some really cheap materials. It costs 35 euro in the shop, making it myself would cost around 1 euro, unless i would buy some very expensive spoons.

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Postby taneous » Mar 15th, '06, 20:35

What I use is a combination of stuff I've learnt from Banachek, Patrick Kuffs, Guy Bavli, Sean Fields, Luke Jermay's books (7 deceptions and building blocks), Richard Osterlind - and then reading everything I could lay my hands on about metal bending and pk from as many angles as I could find - and some of my own stuff :wink:
A good place to start, though, is Banachek's PK Silverware

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Postby Bundy » Mar 16th, '06, 10:00

I see taneous, you've done some research before putting a bending routine together.

So, if you want a quick and easy way to bend something, the perfect bend is nice. But if you want a more complicated and more impressive way to bend stuff you better do some research in bending trics. But that would cost a lot more as you would neet do buy several books/DVDs.

So if you want an easy to do tric, that cost less but gives a good reaction from the spectators then the perfect bend might be something for you.
But, if you want to get a far better presentation and are willing to spend more time and money, then do the research and combine the parts you like best and form your own bending routine.

For me the perfect bend is fine. I mostly do card effects and just wanted some other stuff as quick trics in between.

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Postby taneous » Mar 16th, '06, 10:47

Actually - no. The methods I use are in fact quick and easy. The research and study are what make it real and seperate them from being just a trick to something that the spectators will remember for a long time. Even with the gimmicked bend you should spend a lot of time on how you present it - what you want your spectators to see, feel etc.
This applies to all of magic - there's too many 'quick and easy' tricks - with not much thought going in to them. If you're going go for the quick route - please don't do metal bending.
I often tell people that it's something that takes 5 mins to learn how to do, but at least 6 mnths to a year to learn how to present..

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Postby Bundy » Mar 16th, '06, 13:00

I've not made up a presentation for the perfect bend yet. I've spend too much time making the switch go smooth, but it's still not good enough.

What i meant by a quick trick in between is more like a break in between the card tricks. (and why did i forget the k in the word trick every time in my last post :? ) Not just something like, look a spoon, there it's bent, now pick a card again.

A magician once said to me: there are no bad tricks, only bad presentations.

I think for a metal bending effect to be good, you need a good presentation, but I'm not that good at it. I can do nice things with cards, but that's a totally different way of presenting. So for now the only bending effect i might use is the perfect bend, if i ever get the switch smooth enough. (or maybe i should just vanish the spoon with the help of the raven :wink: )

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Postby taneous » Mar 16th, '06, 13:19

That's what I thought. Doing a spoon bend as a break between card tricks is definitely a bad way to present it. Metal bending can be really powerful and can easily stand on it's own. Do a coin trick or something if you want a break between card tricks - or tell a joke :wink:

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Postby ibv » Apr 1st, '06, 22:46

thanks for everythin Bundy but i really dont unterstand and i still dont know how can i bend it can you tell again if it's dont mind? or can you show with the photos i really want to learn it,thank you very much..

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Postby taneous » Apr 3rd, '06, 07:39

We don't give away secrets here - if you want to find out how it's done then buy the thing..

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Postby Dominick » Apr 3rd, '06, 21:55

I just felt like saying this. I think this trick...Looks bad. I don't like it at all. The guy in the video is wierd too. Good review though. I like how you pulled apart the facts from the description and explained them.

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