Best fork magic

Tower of Lunatic Meat · Mar 17, 2016

I may be going to Disneyland soon and I want to try and do some magic there. One of the things I want to do is with a single hopper--we, fork.

So I ask this: what are some of the best tricks that use a fork?

DominusDolorum · Mar 17, 2016

Do you have any invisible elastic thread to make loops? You can make the fork spin.

obrienmagic · Mar 17, 2016

Liquid Metal is all i can think of at the moment.

Levent Suberk · Mar 18, 2016

Brett, I do not know this one is the best trick but I know only this one fork trick:

Buy several cheap forks. They are made of thin metal sheet and easily bend. Find a large paper bag from a grocery store and a small hand light.

"Now I am going to bend those forks, they are made of metal... You see..." Now take a fork and place it in paper bag. While placing the fork in bag bend the fork. Audience do not see this because you bend the fork in bag. "And another one... ". Place another fork and bend it in bag. Bend the forks fast. Then close the opening of paper bag and light the hand light. Point the hand light over paper bag. "Friends... This one is not an ordinary hand light. This is a radioactive one... No, it is not dangerous for you nor for me, no need to afraid of!" Open paper bag and drop the forks on table or to ground. "You see my friends, all forks are bent!"

Levent Suberk · Mar 18, 2016

I forgot to say, forks can not be examined of course.

Rev · Mar 18, 2016

Jay Sankey's 'Stirring Silver'. Jay does it with a spoon but i don't see any reason why you couldn't do it with a fork.

The video below just shows the first phase, there is a second phase with the ring is removed from the spoon over the 'fat end' as well. Best thing is it's is fairly simple to do and everything can be borrowed.

Rev

TylerScottIllusionist · Mar 19, 2016

I think Threek by Bizarro is pretty decent. It kind of has that shock value that wins Dan Sperry and Bizarro a lot of points with the audience. I think it would be cool to see you perform it.

Tower of Lunatic Meat · Mar 19, 2016

obrienmagic said:
Liquid Metal is all i can think of at the moment.

This looks to be my best bet! Thank you. Unfortunately, the trip just got bumped up a couple weeks and I won't be able to pack in the practice between the shipping time and when we go. There's always next time, though.

TylerScottIllusionist said:
I think Threek by Bizarro is pretty decent. It kind of has that shock value that wins Dan Sperry and Bizarro a lot of points with the audience. I think it would be cool to see you perform it.

I LOVE Bizzaro's stuff, it's so offbeat and unique and virtually everything he does is worth watching, in my oddball opinion.
My only issue is that I think it looks a bit TOO grizzly for a place like Disneyland. I'm not sure if STABBING a deck of cards would go well with families, kids, staff, etc.

If I ever get the stones (and the mental health things worked through) that I can actually go out and do restaurant magic, this would be one of my BIGGEST considerations.
Then again, it LOOKS like you plow through an ENTIRE deck of cards in one go, and I'm not sure if I want to go through $50 worth of Bikes a night. Then again, labor of love.
THEN AGAIN, he MAY NOT be plowing through Bikes after Bikes. I do have my 'rookie glasses' on. I don't know. Bizzaro is clever. I think there's something I'm missing.

mclintock · Mar 19, 2016

Brett Hurley said:
I'm not sure if STABBING a deck of cards would go well with families, kids, staff, etc.

I've seen some Disney movies lately. You'll be fine

Retnuh · Mar 22, 2016

Liquid Metal is stupidly easy to learn, the only real struggle to it is understanding finger placement and where to apply pressure. If you sit in front of a mirror with a few forks for maybe a hour or two it would be performance ready.