• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Nah. You don’t want it to rotate, you want to move your hand in a small circle.

    You use the wood right before the exposed lead and maintain pressure toward the outside of the spool. The pen clip cap from a Bic or a partially unbent paper clip worked even better than a pencil.

    Source: excessive Phish bootlegging in the 90s