How to string magic?

[Lotsofsloths]

I need help restringing my magic after it broke, I have 16 strings, and 8 pieces, I think thats enough to rebuild the magic.

Does anyone have a tutorial on it or something?
I looks at Jaap's Page and Lucas's, but I just couldn't follow it.

 

[masterofthebass]

there's a video on rubiks.com that is pretty decent. It had weird audio, but it shows what to do very well. I think its in the free download sections.

 

[Lotsofsloths]

I'll try it
I also looked at PJKs, but no luck.

I've looked on that sight for about 10 min and can't find it, can you link me?

 

[Lotsofsloths]

EDIT: don't have quicktime >.<

 

[Mike Hughey]

This article was very useful to me when I learned to restring a Magic:
http://twistypuzzles.com/articles/magic-restringing.shtml

It was also helpful watching this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEQYktMfX3I
I don't understand Chinese, but it was still VERY helpful to me.

Those are the two things I used to learn to restring a magic.

 

[Lotsofsloths]

AGHHH!
Its SOOO confusing!
I watched the vid. before but didn't follow it completely.
The Thread was helpful but its so hard to string it!
Plus, with one twine/rope, how do you complete 3 continuous cycles??

 

[Mike Hughey]

Hang in there and try a bunch of times. I think it took me more than an hour to string my Magic the first time. Then it took less than 10 minutes the second time; now I can do the whole thing in less than 3, if I'm lucky. It's like solving - it just takes practice. There are certain ways to twist it that you only seem to be able to learn by doing, but eventually it gets easy.

After I finally got one string on, I wound up taking the whole thing apart a few times before I finally got it all together. Every time I did, I was tempted to throw the whole thing in the trash. But eventually I got it, and I decided that was my big cubing achievement of the week! Just keep trying.

I've often wondered if there shouldn't be a category on speedcubing.com for speed-stringing a Magic.

 

[Lotsofsloths]

Its kind of hard to try if you don't know what in the world your supposed to do
Arnaud or you should make a ENGLISH tutorial video on how-to do it xD

 

[Lucas Garron]

I've often wondered if there shouldn't be a category on speedcubing.com for speed-stringing a Magic.

I once submitted a time.

Who wants to compete, so we can make Ron add it?

 

[Lotsofsloths]

Every time I try to string a 1x3, I cannot fit the string and the first block where the string is folded rips off >.<

 

[Mike Hughey]

That sounds like the typical problem - and what made it so hard for me to learn.

I know you don't like that the video is in Chinese, but go back and watch that video (I just turn down the sound so it doesn't distract me. You'll see that there's a certain twist that must be done to make it fit, and once you learn that, it's not so bad.

Once you get that down, then you'll discover that putting the second string on (the one on the opposite side) is the REALLY hard part. And when you mess that up, of course that also messes up the first one and you have to start over from the very beginning. What fun!