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Last night after dinner and before my daughters bedtime I was conducting some wand carving experiments. I've been making wands for about two years now and I'm at that point where I'm about to go to the next level, but I'm not sure I want do. I'm so GOOD at this level, and the next one I'll be just a novice again. (Always a novice aren't we, no matter how fine our skill level ascends to.) I always use natural wood for wands, but in the spirit of experimenting I grabbed some hardwood dowels from the craft store and started working with them. I have hand carving tools, not the best, but not the worst either, and I have a Dremel hand tool. I was using my hand tools and I was thinking about how much easier it is to use the Dremel. It's true. I can make a dozen wands if I use the power tool, in the time I make one truly handmade wand.

But something happens when I take a power tool to a magickal item. There is a certain amount of "distancing" that happens when the tool touches the wood and not my hands. I lose touch with the item, and that is never good when I am crafting a magickal tool. I literally put my blood, sweat and tears into my own personal magickal tools and unless I'm gloved up, I'll put it into any other magickal item as well!

Speed is NOT the goal when crafting magickal items. My energy and Will needs to transfer into the item and that can only happen under the trickle effect.