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I was asking about a metal bending routine and was pointed to Liquid Metal.

However looking for a place to buy the DVD I saw that they also sold special forks to go with it. I thought that metal bending routines used regular ordinary table forks, not specially gimmicked ones.

Anyway, the site offered no such information so I thought: I know, I'll request a review!

-Stacy

*waits for Beardy to show up*

Ste Porterfield wrote:*waits for Beardy to show up*

Stay away from "liquid metal" forks. It would cost you way too much in the long run. Plus you would be screwed if people ask you to do it with their cutlery.

Start off with pound shop ones if you have never done metal bending before. Flimsy as sh!t, but good for practicing initially. 4 for £1. I haven;t found any good ones in the 99p store, but I know different places vary.

For my day to day work I use Wilkinsons 6 for £1 packs of forks. I brought another 174 forks today

I also use Wilco forks when i do this routine. They are ideal.

Having purchased this, I would like to add the additional piece of information that my hands now REALLY hurt, and there are a few moves he does as instantaneous surreptitious motions which I can sweat and grunt and still not manage (the corkscrew in particular).

I'm going to get through a lot of forks and a possibly a lot of fingers before I can even do this in the mirror.

-Stacy

Stacy...

Before you do yourself some serious damage, you may well want to check out some finger strengthening exercises (guitar-players websites and forums usually have some good tips).

If you fingers hurt, please, PLEASE make sure you give them a day or two of recovery before exercising them, or practising LM again; loosing finger dexterity due to working on just one effect simply isn't worth the heartache.

Take care now!

Rob

Another recommendation may be to start with £1 shop forks...potentially the weakest forks I have every come across...

Beardy wrote:Another recommendation may be to start with £1 shop forks...potentially the weakest forks I have every come across...

<Yoda> Arrrrrr...the Forks is weak with you, young Beardy </Yoda>

These are the cheapest pound shop forks I could find. Frankly they're almost too flimsy to eat with.

I just need to bulk up my hands a bit I think... I've actually bruised part of my left hand (the fleshy part where the palm meets the inside of the knuckle) so I had to stop training.

-Stacy

The4thCircle wrote:I've actually bruised part of my left hand (the fleshy part where the palm meets the inside of the knuckle)

Don't go for a palm reading anytime soon