Magnetic Round Diabolo Sticks

With the standard diabolo sticks it may be difficult to rotate the sticks after doing suns.

These sticks are magnetic and have a half moon shape so they can rotate easily in your hands.

And also magnets make the sticks easy to store.

Materials

1 meter half-moon shaped stick (available at your local hardware store) 19 or 20 mm dia ;

4 Cylindrical neodymium magnet 8mm dia ; thick 5 mm N42

N42 is the standard and can be use until 80 °C = 176 °F

N52 is stronger and more expensive and can be use until 65 °C = 149 °F (not good to put in your car in summer)

Epoxy glue

Nail polish (optional)

Diabolo sting

Diabolo

Tools

2 mm drill bit

5 mm drill bit

8.5 mm drill bit

Drill

File

Plane

Graduated ruler

Adhesive tape

4 clothespin

4 iron coins or washer

Saw

Round the sharp edges with the plane and the file.

Never put your fingers in front of the blade.

Cut the sticks at 300 mm length

Drill 8.5 mm holes for the magnets

Do not apply too much force to avoid splitting the wood.

Drill the 5mm hole at 45 ° before

At the end of the stick, drill the 2 mm hole up to the 5 mm hole (but not more far)

Glue the magnets with epoxy glue.

Do not use hot glue because the magnets are very sensitive to heat.

Magnets have a north pole and a south pole; it is essential to orient them correctly as shown in the drawing.

If you need to know if the string is twisted, paint the ends in different colors.

I used red nail polish and green nail polish.

Do a Figure-eight knot or a Ashley's stopper knot at the ends of the string after put it in the sticks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure-eight_knot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley%27s_stopper_knot