# making string

**URL:** <https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/making-string/63441>\
**Category:** General Yo-Yo\
**Created:** [January 31, 2014, 4:00am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/making-string/63441 "2014-01-31T04:00:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![1AMason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/d9b06d/32.png) [@1AMason](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/1AMason)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 4:00am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/making-string/63441/1 "2014-01-31T04:00:30Z")

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ok so I cant find a yoyo shop where I live and I was eating though string left and right before I got my NR yoyo. so I took up twisting my own string. I take regular sewing tread and run a length from a hook I have in my closet door frame to the handle on my bedroom door and just keep going back and forth until I have enough loops about 10 does it for me. then I take a pen and twist clockwise until its nice and tight. next, while keeping tension on the string I put the loop my pen was I and hook that on the hook and put my pen back in on the other end. now I just twist counter clock wise until its nice and tight and looks like yoyo string. then I let it go and unwind the extra tension off. tie it off and adjust to proper length and get my finger loop in place and were ready for a yoyo.

that’s my process. any tips? it works really well IMO, but the loop around my finger doesn’t stay very tight even with the loop “pointing” to my pinky. any way I can get that out or do I just deal?

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**Author:** ![skitrz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/skitrz/32/849_2.png) [@skitrz](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/skitrz)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 5:09am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/making-string/63441/2 "2014-01-31T05:09:05Z")

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Here’s a couple of ideas I offered to prevent finger pain. I’ve also used both methods for slippery strings. Maybe it will work for you.

> **[Avoid finger pain~the skitrz way](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php/topic,66609.0.html)**
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> I often see threads regarding the finger pain caused by the string strangling the newcomers phalanges. I personally dislike tape and gloves, especially when new to yoyoing. It’s really such a bother to carry a glove and mess with tape not to mention...