MinnFlyer,
Ahhhhhhhhh, a man who knows how to explain annealing for someone like me to understand. Thank you. And thanks everyone, a lot of knowledge has been brought out. So I wasn't to far off. I believe the biggest problem I had was getting a "nice" bend and I wasn't doing that without heat. I had tried to bend music wire by just putting in the vise cold and giving it the old heee ohhhh. What I would end up was a crappy looking piece of s)&) and that's if I was lucky enough to not break it. Then I went to heating the wire to bend and that worked ok, until that hard landing bent it worse. Thennnnnnnnn I tried the heat and rapid cooling method and that worked even better. But I was still looking for a better way and I came on the K & S bender so I gave it a try using a larger wire then I was using before and darn, did it work nice. The trick I can see is before I would just bend a wire and hope it was fairly round but with the K & S bender, there is a small rollar you bend around to keep the shape while bending. I've found this so far to be the best way to bend music wire without any hassles of heating, cooling , etc. IF I decide to have a sword made, I know a few guys here I'll have make one for me, they know their stuff.
Thanks guys, Larry