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Can anybody tell me about how they go about bending coins? Specifically I need to make a small batch of bent 10p coins. You might be able to save me some blood sweat and tears.

ps - I have done a search on TM but haven't found anything.

A vice and a pliers? A pair of pliers? How do you think you go about bending coins?

(Might be worth covering the teeth of the tool with masking tape to stop it trashing the coin though)

Is certainly an easy answer. I'm asking incase there is a less obvious answer that I might not have considered, for whatever reason, even though pliers is clearly very obvious etc etc.

Ta for the tip.

There is also a pliers device designed for bending coins called the SL Coin Bending Tool. It reduces/removes getting 'teeth' marks on the coin as you dont need to use a vice etc. Can be done very quicky, even in performance, if your routine allows you to turn your back on the spectator or similar

http://www.magicshop.co.uk/p497/SL_Coin ... _info.html
Hope this helps

Dominic

David Penn has "coinvexed" coming out at the end of the month, looks like a gooden!

Magic Chris wrote:David Penn has "coinvexed" coming out at the end of the month, looks like a gooden!

I think he was after a "Vice and Pliers" method rather than a trick.

I use 2 sets of pliers and an old playing card, so not to scratch the coin.
I'm sure it's illegal!

Edit: How about lining some up on a train line and waiting, won't be "bent" so much as "squashed" but I'm sure there's a trick in it somewhere!

How to make a bent 10p

Get it voted into Government as an MP who then employs his two sons and one of their freinds as researchers, and get them paid huge sums from public funds in return for not a lot of actual work......

Dave bend's mine with a vice and pliers (oh err that's one of the innuendo bingo). The first few were quite scratched up but he uses a piece of felt now to stop that.

Mandrake wrote:Get it voted into Government as an MP who then employs his two sons and one of their freinds as researchers, and get them paid huge sums from public funds in return for not a lot of actual work......

Chuckle. Cheers for the answers people, I plan to book a session with a friend's pliers and vice.

I've still got some old 10p and 1p coins that an intercity 125 ran over. Oh happy days.



"you can feel the coin.. now... pretend you are a train..."

Wrap the coin in cloth or a chamois and put it in a vice so half the coin is sticking up out of the vice still coverd in cloth. You don't have to tighten it too much, just make it a snug fit. Then take a piece of wood (a small bit of 2x1 works well) and push it against the protruding, wrapped, coin. You will be able to bend it or force it into a gentle curve. The cloth or leather offers a softer, rolled edge to the bend and it should prevent marring. The wood offers leverage without marring...I bend half a dozen at a time in 5 mins this way. I make the bends reasonably subtle, a slight bend is still flippin' impressive, easier to hide when you need to and looks less forced into the metal.

Awesome thanks Tom. That's the sort of approach I was hoping somebody might reply with. I was wondering if anybody had successfully used wood.

if no one is bothered by exposure...then...

just buy the superman coin bend gimmick...thats what i use, i cant be bothered with all those vices and pliers...

and, if you use the data within Naked Mentalism, you have a double bit of business to play with...

abraxus wrote:and, if you use the data within Naked Mentalism, you have a double bit of business to play with...

I've used this quite a lot. of course i have 2 of "the correct" bent 10ps in my pocket. one shiey, one dull. if they pull out a dull 10p i have guess, if they pull out a shiney i'll do the bend first, then ask do the date