Could someone recommend a good routine for bending pennies please? I got the bent pennies, just need the routine now:)

Thanks

Wayne

Bent Cent by Ray Koenig is quite good (but it probably won't work with the coins you've already bent). It's included in Kenton Knepper's booklet, An Enchanted Evening.

I also recommend the Xpert Coin Bending routine on my site (a free bonus routine for owners of The Xpert), but you knew I was going to say that, didn't you?

When you reach 50 posts, you'll find a more detailed discussion in the Inner Thoughts section (including some great thoughts by Greg Arce and others).

There's one on the first volume of Michael Ammar's Easy to Master Money Miracles. And if you have Neil Tobin's XPert, you can get a wonderful penny bending routine from his website.

So has no one had experience using the quantum bender?

Greetings!

Strange how I started a thread on this subject, and a day later, another appears.I guess it's the "Multiplying Threads" trick!
That's what you get when you cross "multiplying balls" with the "Gypsy Thread" !

I know Jeff and Eugene would find it amusing...Now you know why bi-polars need medication!

Cheers,

J.Warrens

That's easy for you to say!

Jack Shalom

I use quantum bender and talk about chi... I have this story about chi and energy then proceed to bend thier marked coin, gets great reaction

Bill Goldman has a nice routine in his "Bar and Grill" series Issue Number 7. Essentially the coin is held by a volunteer then the hands of another volunteer cover the first person's clasped hands, then a third volunteer covers both sets of hands. Obviously, the volunteer holding the coin will feel his hand getting "warmer" since it's covered with two other sets of hands.

You will have to read the notes to get the rest of the routine, but there are some wonderful ideas in every set of his "Bar and Grill" notes. You ought to buy them all.

Bill's website where you can check it out is
http://www.bgmagic.com/

Yours,

Scott Wells

Thanks, all. Great ideas.

Hi, can any one tell me the name of the site in the UK that sells the gimmicked pliers for bending coins?

A while ago it came up in the Café and I visited it. However now I can't find it after searching for ages.

For an anytime, anyplace, anywhere coin-bend routine, please check out marc Paul’s mind2mind DVD. Highly recommended.

Good luck.

hmk

A great set of coin bending pliers can be found at http://www.tophatmagic.com.

Although there are many reasons to use X-pert, quantum bender and many other marketed effects, I still find the best effect can be achieved using a simple switch combined with the suggestion ideas from Kenton and Jermay. Just my two pennies worth!

Couple of quick words to start: shuttle pass and goshman pinch. From there bend any coin.

Ray Koenig's Bent Cent rocks! You will need something to make your own pennies, but if you can get a copy of "An Enchanted Evening", the method is given in there.

With all due respect to Magicbouy and Actorscotty, if you're doing coin bending, your audience will always suspect a switch (especially if they know you as a magician rather than as a mentalist). I humbly submit that if you can disprove this presumption (which some of the other methods allow you to do), your presentation will be far more powerful in the eyes of the public.

Best,

Neil

I have used Xpert for a while, and it has mixed results with the people I use it with. Some still suspect a switch although they can't explain the "marked" coin as being the only bent one.

I would like to try the Quantum bender, but I can't justify the price..

I will say Marky does do a good job with his routine!

I think Bent Cent is very inexpensive, devious and practical (IF you can "act").

But once you've seen Osterlind's own penny bend, nothing else looks nearly as convincing!

Osterlind's coin bend is one of the best routines I ever saw. And while I also agree on bent cent with Adolphus, IMO the closest effect I know to Osterlind's bent coin is PKOIN (in which a regular coin can be signed once or twice and then bent in full view with no apparatus at all!).