Posted by Paul Doug on September 4, 2009 at 9:22am
Okay, I picked up some old sugar spoons at a yard sale. I'm wanting to bend the handles in some pretty tight curves. I'm afraid to heat them because I'm afraid they will turn black. Do you bend them cold or do you heat them?
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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.
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.
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.
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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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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