The Fork

4)Bending a tine on a fork: (this was posted before in the old library, but I figured I'd post it again cause its a freat trick)Prep: Just put a good bend in one of the tines on a fork. If you look at the fork from the front, you should bend the one on the outer right towards you. Method: You just basically hold it in front of the spec(the front side facing them) so the fork appears to be straight. This is just like the spoon bending effect I posted. The key to getting it to look staright is this. You should line up whatever you want to look straight with THEIR nose, and so it looks straight to YOU. If its perfectly aligned, it will look straight to them. And with both of these illusions, it looks best in dim lighting, cause the bend wil glare. If their is a light you can always shade th fork with your hand and act as thought your using your hand to cause it to bend.Now, the bottom tine should be bent towards them, but they cant tell. Then you have to hold the fork with the right hand so it covers the wide part of the fork at the end of the stem cause they will beable to tell your turning it if you dont hide that part. You should hold it so they cant see your thumb behing your hand which is the finger holding the fork. Use the thumb to push on the bottom part of the stem, causing it to turn. It will look like the bottom tine is bending upwards into the fork. This really does look badass if you do it right. Just rotate withe the thumb untill it bends, then immediatly give it out. This one really gets people cause they autimatically want to look at it to see if its really bent, and it is.
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