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Permalink Reply by Roger Morin on September 4, 2009 at 2:54am

Spoons and forks can be bent easy by hand cold

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Permalink Reply by Diane in Chicago on September 4, 2009 at 3:33am

Stainless steel tableware is either stamped (sharp edges are the usual telltale sign) or mold-poured (smooth edges and nicer overall finish). The cheap stamped stuff is much easier to bend, because it was a sheet once to begin with. I made crispy 90 degree bends in a fork handle by clamping it into a vice and beating the crap out of it. I also was able to make spirals on fork tines with just pliers, and I am a wimpy little gal. So hopefully your spoons are the cheap stamped ones!

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Permalink Reply by Mark Werner on September 4, 2009 at 4:58am

I believe Uri Geller is still around, and looking for work....

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Permalink Reply by peter martin on September 4, 2009 at 10:07am

Hi Paul, I would suggest you try bending some cutlery you don't mind trashing first, I always bend mine around a screwdriver mounted in a vice but however,heating is unnecessary,imho.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Doug on September 4, 2009 at 1:42pm

Thanks for the responces everyone. Peter thanks for the pictures. Pretty darn neat. I've got three spoons, and I'd like to use them to attach the strings to at the butt of some CCBGs . I think I will pick up the rest tomorrow if they haven't sold and use the plain ones to practice on. I'll have about a dozen so I should be able to get a couple good bent ones out of that.

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Permalink Reply by Old Lowe on September 4, 2009 at 2:00pm

Paul I have bent a lot of spoons in my time the trick is youve got one or two times to bend them and then they snap.
So if your gonna bend it just bend it but the more you go back and forth the more brittle it gets.

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Permalink Reply by Mortimer Snerd on September 5, 2009 at 10:49am

spoons should never be bent,, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TS9ugnarQQ

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Permalink Reply by Paul Doug on September 5, 2009 at 12:36pm

Pretty darn awesome. I've got 16 old spoons at the yard sale. I'll bend half and play half!

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