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Wands serve as an extension of ourselves and our abilities. Crystal wands are used for healing, direction of power, consecrations, and blessings.

Making a crystal wand may seem to be a difficult task, however, making a crystal wand is very simple if we have the patience and some basic supplies.

The simplest crystal wand that we can make requires only a piece of copper pipe, say around 6 inches long, and two appropriate sized crystals of our choice.

Our first step is to acquire the piece of copper pipe or tubing. We then take the piece of tube to our local craft market/crystal shop and allow ourselves to select two pieces of crystal, which may be similar or different crystals, that fit snugly (in part) in either end of the tube.

We may choose to glue the crystals in place.

Alternatively, we may choose to make a slightly more labour intensive wand which allows us to transfer more of our energy into the wand during construction.

We need only:

	A Leather strip.
	A piece of dowel, about a foot (30cm) or less in length, and approx. 3/4 inch (2cm) thick. Alternatively a natural piece of branch from the woods, or a piece of driftwood from the beach may be used, indeed preferable.
	Paint, whatever colour we prefer, or varnish if w use natural wood.
	A crystal(s) of our choice which should be about equal in width, with the width of our dowel or natural wood.

Method.

	We paint our dowel in the colour or pattern we wish, or we clean and stain or varnish our natural wood.
	We place our crystal on the end of our dowel, or natural wood where we feel that our crystal belongs.
	We use the looping method to secure our crystal with the leather strap.
	We may wish to apply some glue to our crystal to ensure that our crystal is secure.

These are both very simple crystal wands. If we wish we can add metal wrappings, or we can trace the leather down our wand, or we can wrap our wand in ribbons, or adorn our wand with feathers or beads.

Step One: We lay the leather strap on the handle across the hilt. Here we use blue as the leather strap colour and red as our dowel, or natural wood.

Step Three: We begin to wrap the leather strap around the handle of our wand. We make sure that the loop is still visible. We will only need to go around twice to secure the loop in place.

We must pay attention to the leather strap while wrapping around our dowel, or natural wood, so that the leather strap does not come undone, and the loop does not disappear under the leather strap.

We continue this process until we feel that the leather strap will be secure enough. We need to keep the leather strap taut, and not allow the loop disappear.

Step Five: we have begun to use different colours, although this is the same piece of material.

Where the leather strap has changed to yellow, is the piece we have been using to do the criss-cross wrappings. The material should be drawn down diagonally, and threaded through the loop.

Step Six: We take the original end which we left visible and begin to pull it up towards the crystal itself (it should not travel that far). Before we pull the leather strap completely through, we only pull the leather strap to where it begins to pull underneath the wrappings, and then we stop. At this point, we cut the long leather strap which we have been wrapping with. We pull the leather strap all the way through, but we do not pull so much as to make material bunch up.

Step Seven: We can do one of two things. We can either cut the leather strap off near the top of the wrapping, or we can attempt to push the leather strap underneath the wrapping at the top.

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