How to Make a Rubik's Magic String

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I know some people who run out of magic strings, and then just buy some more magics. (My friend has his third magic now) They waste a lot of money when they can make their own magic strings. I have been requested to make a video on how to make a Rubik's Magic string, and I do not see a lot of guides telling you how to do this, so I decided to make a video tutorial. I hope everyone finds it helpful

Video Description
In this tutorial, I show you how to make a string for your Rubik's Magic, out of common fishing line.

What you'll need:
1. Some fishing line
2. Scissors
3. Tape
4. Yard or meter stick

Steps:
1. Cut about 25 inches (63.5 cm) of fishing line
2. Make an over hand knot at one end of the fishing line
3. Put the overhand knot on the 0 mark of the yard/meter stick
4. Tape the fishing line down to the meter stick
5. Go to the 17 and 3/4 inch (45.085 cm) mark on the yard/meter stick
6. Make another overhand knot just before the 17 and 3/4 inch (45.085 cm) mark
7. Take the tape off the fishing line
8. Tie the two overhand knots together in a circle using a square knot
9. Cut off excess string sticking out of the overhand knot
10. Congratulations, you have just made your first Rubik's Magic String!

This is AWESOME, THANKS!!!

im just fascinated at the ruler becuase in england out rulers only go to 30cm or 12", i've never seen or even heard of a "yard stick"

Back when the universe was young & pluto was still a planet.

There were wooden sticks called a yard stick. The sticks were
3 feet long. (36 inch). See attachment.

Good tutorial, but I would just be lazy and order some strings

AvGalen said:

Good tutorial, but I would just be lazy and order some strings

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I would do that too, but they've been out of stock forever!

http://www.cube4you.com/347_Two-Magic-Strings.html
http://www.cubesmith.com/Parts.htm

Unless..... you can buy them somewhere else? :rolleyes:

Nice tutorial. I shall try this sometime when im bored and have some extra fishing line laying around.

Rubik's Cube Fan said:

AvGalen said:

Good tutorial, but I would just be lazy and order some strings

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I would do that too, but they've been out of stock forever!

http://www.cube4you.com/347_Two-Magic-Strings.html
http://www.cubesmith.com/Parts.htm

Unless..... you can buy them somewhere else? :rolleyes:

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tribox

Paul Wagner said:

Rubik's Cube Fan said:

AvGalen said:

Good tutorial, but I would just be lazy and order some strings

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I would do that too, but they've been out of stock forever!

http://www.cube4you.com/347_Two-Magic-Strings.html
http://www.cubesmith.com/Parts.htm

Unless..... you can buy them somewhere else? :rolleyes:

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tribox

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how do you understand anything on tribox?!

Rubik's Cube Fan said:

AvGalen said:

Good tutorial, but I would just be lazy and order some strings

Click to expand...

I would do that too, but they've been out of stock forever!

http://www.cube4you.com/347_Two-Magic-Strings.html
http://www.cubesmith.com/Parts.htm

Unless..... you can buy them somewhere else? :rolleyes:

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I got mine from cube4you, this way:
http://www.cube4you.com/catalog_15.html

They're almost always in stock, and you get 8 strings for $4.00, which is not that much worse than 2 strings for 60 cents. I bought 3 packages, so I've got a bunch of spares.

Mike Hughey said:

Rubik's Cube Fan said:

AvGalen said:

Good tutorial, but I would just be lazy and order some strings

Click to expand...

I would do that too, but they've been out of stock forever!

http://www.cube4you.com/347_Two-Magic-Strings.html
http://www.cubesmith.com/Parts.htm

Unless..... you can buy them somewhere else? :rolleyes:

Click to expand...

I got mine from cube4you, this way:
http://www.cube4you.com/catalog_15.html

They're almost always in stock, and you get 8 strings for $4.00, which is not that much worse than 2 strings for 60 cents. I bought 3 packages, so I've got a bunch of spares.

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Brilliant!
I thought those were only tiles

OMG! Thank you.
Now I can fix my rubik magic. But wait.
Hey, that was my method of making a rubik magic string from the other thread,
I just found out the part "Make a over-hand knot" and "do a square knot", yet I think you took my method or you maybe you found it out yourself.
And I think maybe I was the first person to know the method before anyone else or some people know it.
but thanks for the video, it help me. You show all people that there a way to make a homemade rubik magic string.
I don't mean it in a mean way.

Edit: Think about making a homemade string for less then 1 hour than buying a magic string from cubesmith or cubeforyou for $.60 or $1.00 then wait for 1 week-or more for the package to come into your house.

http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9558

shoot1510 said:

OMG! Thank you.
Hey, that was my method of making a rubik magic string from the other thread,
I just found out the part "Make a over-hand knot" and "do a square knot", yet I think you took my method or you maybe you found it out yourself.
And I think maybe I was the first person to know the method before anyone else or some people know it.

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I don't think I stole the method from you. I just find out about that thread today, and I made the tutorial video on February 11 (Besides that thread was made a week ago). I found out how to make a Rubik's Magic string from this post (thanks pcharles93 ):
http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showpost.php?p=84416&postcount=33

Yeah, you might be the first one to come up with that idea (March 2007 ). You don't really need to brag about it though...

shoot1510 said:

Think about making a homemade string for less then 1 hour than buying a magic string from cubesmith or cubeforyou for $.60 or $1.00 then wait for 1 week-or more for the package to come into your house.

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It takes you "less than an hour" to make one string? At most it takes me 10 minutes.....

Mike Hughey said:

Rubik's Cube Fan said:

AvGalen said:

Good tutorial, but I would just be lazy and order some strings

Click to expand...

I would do that too, but they've been out of stock forever!

http://www.cube4you.com/347_Two-Magic-Strings.html
http://www.cubesmith.com/Parts.htm

Unless..... you can buy them somewhere else? :rolleyes:

Click to expand...

I got mine from cube4you, this way:
http://www.cube4you.com/catalog_15.html

They're almost always in stock, and you get 8 strings for $4.00, which is not that much worse than 2 strings for 60 cents. I bought 3 packages, so I've got a bunch of spares.

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Thats horrible deal Dealextreme.com sells mastermagics for 12 dollars including shipping thats 24 strings and you get a master magic!

Paul Wagner said:

Mike Hughey said:

Rubik's Cube Fan said:

AvGalen said:

Good tutorial, but I would just be lazy and order some strings

Click to expand...

I would do that too, but they've been out of stock forever!

http://www.cube4you.com/347_Two-Magic-Strings.html
http://www.cubesmith.com/Parts.htm

Unless..... you can buy them somewhere else? :rolleyes:

Click to expand...

I got mine from cube4you, this way:
http://www.cube4you.com/catalog_15.html

They're almost always in stock, and you get 8 strings for $4.00, which is not that much worse than 2 strings for 60 cents. I bought 3 packages, so I've got a bunch of spares.

Click to expand...

Thats horrible deal Dealextreme.com sells mastermagics for 12 dollars including shipping thats 24 strings and you get a master magic!

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It might not be the best deal, but it's not a horrible deal.

Rubik's Cube Fan said:

shoot1510 said:

OMG! Thank you.
Hey, that was my method of making a rubik magic string from the other thread,
I just found out the part "Make a over-hand knot" and "do a square knot", yet I think you took my method or you maybe you found it out yourself.
And I think maybe I was the first person to know the method before anyone else or some people know it.

Click to expand...

I don't think I stole the method from you. I just find out about that thread today, and I made the tutorial video on February 11 (Besides that thread was made a week ago). I found out how to make a Rubik's Magic string from this post (thanks pcharles93 ):
http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showpost.php?p=84416&postcount=33

Yeah, you might be the first one to come up with that idea (March 2007 ). You don't really need to brag about it though...

shoot1510 said:

Think about making a homemade string for less then 1 hour than buying a magic string from cubesmith or cubeforyou for $.60 or $1.00 then wait for 1 week-or more for the package to come into your house.

Click to expand...

It takes you "less than an hour" to make one string? At most it takes me 10 minutes.....

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Besides I not the first person to figure it out. I figure it out from Jan 2009, so I can't be the first to get it.
I'm sure if I can make a rubik magic string in 5 min with your video.

Very, very cool! I also have resorted to buying new magics, or bags and bags of strings. It would be so much nicer to be able to make them on my own. I will definitely have to learn how to do this, thanks for this tutorial!

Chris

Does anyone know what thickness/guage/breaking strain I need to use for this?

I was thinking that the stronger the better as long as it fits in the grooves.

I was wondering about the gauge too. Also, I might be stupid, but how do I take the strings out of the magic? If a string broke, do I have to replace all the strings?

Probably not, you may have to remove all the strings from it though