# How to make yoyo string?
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-yoyo-string/32343
**Category:** Yo-Yo Mods and Maintenance
**Created:** [December 6, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-yoyo-string/32343 "2011-12-06T01:28:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@yoyoedumaster](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyoedumaster)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-yoyo-string/32343/1 "2011-12-06T01:28:21Z")
How to make yoyo string w/o a drill.
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### Author:  [@yoyoavenger](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyoavenger)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-yoyo-string/32343/2 "2011-12-06T01:43:13Z")
there are great youtube tuts, but its really easy
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### Author:  [@yoyoedumaster](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyoedumaster)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2011, 1:46am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-yoyo-string/32343/3 "2011-12-06T01:46:08Z")
how do you do it. Tell me.
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### Author:  [@zeelp3mta3](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/zeelp3mta3)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2011, 5:06am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-yoyo-string/32343/4 "2011-12-06T05:06:53Z")
If you dont have a drill you can use a stick and twist it by hand (takes forever)
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_4ROMJCQkk)
You would be betteroff just picking up some bulk string here.
It’s money over lots of time spent.
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### Author:  [@zerrubabbel](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/zerrubabbel)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2011, 5:13am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-yoyo-string/32343/5 "2011-12-06T05:13:27Z")
it would seem you either need to find something else that spins and is workable or your stuck using your fingers 😕
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### Author:  [@sirnaq\_MN42](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/sirnaq_MN42)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2011, 5:34am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-yoyo-string/32343/6 "2011-12-06T05:34:53Z")
If heard that some people use fishing reels. Not the ones with the button the other kind.
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### Author:  [@anonyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/anonyo)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2011, 6:22am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-yoyo-string/32343/7 "2011-12-06T06:22:30Z")
> [@sirnaq\_MN42](#):
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> If heard that some people use fishing reels. Not the ones with the button the other kind.
What?
Spinning?
Spin-Casting?(that’s probably the button one)
I doubt it would be a fly reel(for fly fishing, man, that’s a hard one!) or an open reel(often seen in salt water fishing)
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### Author:  [@sirnaq\_MN42](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/sirnaq_MN42)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2011, 6:51am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-yoyo-string/32343/8 "2011-12-06T06:51:56Z")
Maybe the pictures from buddy-Jim might help. He was the fist person I saw using a fishing reel.
> [@Buddy\_Jim](#):
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> It’s up on Photo Bucket BOOYAH! I’m gonna try to send it in a pm if you can’t get the video I will give you a link to a album in photobucket.
> Step One
> [http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/xx2/Buddyjim/th\_SANY0308.jpg](http://s736.photobucket.com/albums/xx2/Buddyjim/?action=view¤t=SANY0308.mp4)
> Step Two
> [http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/xx2/Buddyjim/th\_SANY0309.jpg](http://s736.photobucket.com/albums/xx2/Buddyjim/?action=view¤t=SANY0309.mp4)
> Step Three
> [http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/xx2/Buddyjim/th\_SANY0310.jpg](http://s736.photobucket.com/albums/xx2/Buddyjim/?action=view¤t=SANY0310.mp4)
> Step four
> [http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/xx2/Buddyjim/th\_SANY0311.jpg](http://s736.photobucket.com/albums/xx2/Buddyjim/?action=view¤t=SANY0311.mp4)
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> I hope this helps sorry that a lot of it is sideways. I figure you can get what you need out of it, and I will be re shooting at some point in the future.
Whatever reel shown in the last picture is the one I’m talking about. I don’t really get buddy-jims process from this but kind of clarifies what kind of reel I was talking about. I still don’t know what its called. I’m not a fisherman…
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### Author:  [@zeelp3mta3](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/zeelp3mta3)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-yoyo-string/32343/9 "2011-12-06T16:08:49Z")
Its called an Open face spinning reel
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### Author:  [@yoyoedumaster](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyoedumaster)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-yoyo-string/32343/10 "2011-12-06T23:27:38Z")
what thread do you use for yoyostring. WHere to buy/
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### Author:  [@sirnaq\_MN42](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/sirnaq_MN42)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2011, 11:39pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-yoyo-string/32343/11 "2011-12-06T23:39:23Z")
You can use almost any thread but most use cotton, nylon, or polyester.
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### Author:  [@yoyoedumaster](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyoedumaster)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-yoyo-string/32343/12 "2011-12-06T23:41:18Z")
WHere can you buy it? Also aren’t there diferent thicknesses of string? How would you make your string different thicknesses
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### Author:  [@yoyoedumaster](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyoedumaster)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2011, 11:43pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-yoyo-string/32343/13 "2011-12-06T23:43:26Z")
> [@zeelp3mta3](#):
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> If you dont have a drill you can use a stick and twist it by hand (takes forever)
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> [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-\_4ROMJCQkk](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_4ROMJCQkk)
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> You would be betteroff just picking up some bulk string here.
> It’s money over lots of time spent.
Is it easy to make string.
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### Author:  [@sirnaq\_MN42](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/sirnaq_MN42)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-yoyo-string/32343/14 "2011-12-06T23:44:25Z")
I buy my thread at joanns fabric store. Thicker string is done by adding more threads.