Well, we ain't gonna know if I'd have been able to "re-springy" the apparantly soft Japaneese stainless spatulata I found in the kitchen area of a burned out motorhomne. Like my son, i tried to do it the easy way, and when I went to heat the neck of the spatula to a yellow heat so I could air quench it, or course it burned off. I guess I'm a smidgen smarter. Ashes to ashes. Jeff Valentine