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Forkbending
Step-By-Step
As I've said,
I'm no expert on forkbending. I've tried to explain my own
experience
with it, but people keep emailing me asking how to do it. I guess
the best I can do is to spell out step-by-step what I was
told
at the party where I "learned" to do it, which is reinforced
by descriptions on other sites, particularly regarding Jack
Houck's
famous "PK Parties" (for those of you too lazy to visit
the sites I've linked to). There is no "Secret",
it doesn't involve anything creepy. You won't be conjuring
up spirits
or casting spells or getting possessed
by Abraham, although for
all I know the "Law
of Attraction" may have something to do with
it. I really don't know WHY or HOW this works, it just does.
I can't guarantee results, but I've done the best I can at
explaining it in detail
- the
rest
is
up
to you.
Good luck! |
STEP
ONE - PREPARE
You'll want
to collect a lot of unwanted cutlery - otherwise, once it starts
working, you'll end up without a single functional fork in your
house. Which is a little bit annoying once the euphoria of bending
them wears off. The best ones are those chunky big old-fashioned
ones, usually silver-plated brass. It will work with stainless
steel ones just as well, but the core metal in a lot of stainless
cutlery is really cruddy, and they snap much easier that old-fashioned
ones. Whatever the mysterious process is, it certainly stresses
the metal, and a snapped fork is very disappointing.
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Jasper made
me a forky Valentine when we first met in 2003. He's so sweet!
No wonder I fell for him :) (We got married in 2006) |
Get a variety
of sizes, from teaspoon right up to big heavy dinner-forks. You
might want to start with a little spoon, but once it's happening,
you'll want to do something bigger to prove to yourself it's not
just mind-over-matter. As you can see from some of the ones I've
shown here, you can bend some very heavy cutlery into beautiful
graceful curls - that's the kind of thing that makes you convinced
that you're not just using brute force without realising.
Thrift Stores,
Op Shops, Charity Stores, Secondhand Shops or whatever you call
them in your country, are the best place to buy the right sort
of forks & spoons. Buy as many as you can.
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