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On Saturday I had one of those moments. You know, where you make someone actually really freak out.

I do not do coin magic at all.

I had bent a 10p before I came out.

I waited all night for the right timing. Someone decided to do a coin toss to decide something. It was a 10p.

I palmed my 10p. After the coin toss, the 10p was left on table. I asked person next to me to pass me the coin as I wanted to try something. Bobo switch. Put bent coin in his hand.

Did some nonsense about metals and heat and placebo effect of me telling them their hands are getting hot etc.

He said it didn't feel hot. I said to open his hand.

He just sat there. Staring at it. Really, utterly shocked. He paused about 30 seconds before doing anything. He then picked up the coin and was looking at it. In silence.

It was wonderful.

So, balls to expensive coin benders and silly routines. Just bend and coin and switch it. And sell the effect.



I might prebend all sorts of demoninations next time!

I've always used the "Pre-bent" coin method.

I don't believe that, if presented well, it is any less than having the coin signed.

You can get some brilliant reactions, plus, people love bent coins, for some odd reason! They almost always ask to keep them and it's a great little souvenir.

If you can spare the money, try taking a look at Benjamin Earle's Skin DVD. It's a coin bend routine that doesn't involve gimmicks etc but is psychologically designed for maximum impact. Good stuff!

Lenoir wrote:I've always used the "Pre-bent" coin method.

I don't believe that, if presented well, it is any less than having the coin signed.

You can get some brilliant reactions, plus, people love bent coins, for some odd reason! They almost always ask to keep them and it's a great little souvenir.

If you can spare the money, try taking a look at Benjamin Earle's Skin DVD. It's a coin bend routine that doesn't involve gimmicks etc but is psychologically designed for maximum impact. Good stuff!

Thanks. I'll have a look at that.

I've done a few coin bending routine and always used prebent coins. I've never seen the point of having a coin signed, the specs should only ever think that there is one coin in play anyway, if yoou start having them sign things all you're doing is suggesting that you do use duplicates from time to time.

i say yahboo sucks to Skin and benny earl...i recommend Psyche from Gerard instead...

where you bend a marked coin of theirs, with no gimmicks...

weirdly, psyche came out ages before skin did...and hardly anyone mentioned it...

i always have a bent 1992, and 19972 10p on me...

i remember last christmas i was performing in a bar, and when everyone freaked over the marked coin being bent, i had one person come up to me later (who was the star-turd of the group) and said that it was all in the special ink in the marker i used...

so i let him keep the marker, and i caught him later on marking all his coins and waiting...only then did he feel that he was ok to admit how freaky it all was...

IAIN wrote:and 19972 10p on me...

Can you tell me next week's lotto numbers then please Iain?

I assume we must refer to you as The Doctor from now on?

yes i can..

7, 14, 25, 29, 38 and 44...

but I'm not telling you when those numbers will come in...

please forgive the typo - instead of 19972, i meant to type "wishmaster, you smell of cat-wee"....

IAIN wrote:please forgive the typo - instead of 19972, i meant to type "wishmaster, you smell of cat-wee"....

Time to change the undies again!

IAIN wrote:i

weirdly, psyche came out ages before skin did...and hardly anyone mentioned it...

Ahh but remember, Ben have UBER cool hair and SUPER trendy glasses.
He also lives in Hackney and has the full force of the marketing drag that can be Alakzam.

Does Gerard have super cool glasses? I think not.

And I'll be damned if I buy a product from anyone who doesn't.

Can i posit a question that im sure a lot of you will think is really dumb?

I can? Great....

What do you use to bend a coin? And dont give me a gimmick, i mean really, how do you bend them? Surely any hardware instruments would mark the coin in some way.

Im a card chap you see, and have never had reason to bend a coin lest they not be accepted as legal tender.

if your going to do this in bulk, a bench vice, with a pair of soft jaws will stop marks. and you could apply the bend with a soft face plumbers mallet

the bend has only to be slight.

a pair of pliers, with some fingers from an old thick learteh glove should also stop the coins from becoming marked.

or... invest in one of the coin bending tools out there. Most are made to be used on the run, but you could always do it in advance as well.

thats what i do - i've got the superman bending thingy, twenty quid..i just sit and watch a film and sort out some loose change...half an hour later I'm sorted...

I'm always in awe at the number of coin bending routines out there, when the simplest method can often be the most effective. Is it an obsession for magicians to create so many complicated ways of achieving an effect so simple, that even the biggest dimwit in the world can understand and comprehend ?

mrgoat wrote:
I palmed my 10p. After the coin toss, the 10p was left on table. I asked person next to me to pass me the coin as I wanted to try something. Bobo switch. Put bent coin in his hand.

Dont mean to sound noobish but what is the bobo switch?

dP

its in the bobo coin magic book...