6.
Give yourself enough room to test the equipment.

Set the wand's tassel to the down position, fully extended.
7.
When you raise the wand to a sharp incline, gravity slides the weight back down the tube.

The string gets sucked in, and the tassle is magically pulled upward!

By an invisible ghostly hand??

Who knows!

8.
Can you see where this is going? See how I've painted it all black and wand-like?

Let's do it again!

Start with the tassel in the down position.
9.
A gentle lift, and up it goes!

It's a direct ripoff of the old Chinese Sticks illusion, but mine's better: it's bigger and made in America.

Maybe on July 4th, I'll make a set with big huge flags on the ends. Flaming flags!
 
Tilting and reeling in one tassel while manually extending the other, back and forth, over and over, is guaranteed to provide even the most cantankerous audience at least three full hours of breathtaking entertainment.