Okay, after a few prototypes I got it figured out and it works amazingly. Blew away my fire troupe with its' debut. Basically take a wooden dowel and wrap the ends in metal tape or yur preferred method. The wood needs to be fairly light weight, The when you are all ready and it is done, (I only wrapped one end in kevlar because I wanted it to be more like a cane but you could have both ends flaming) find the balance point. You want to drill a hole just below that point. A good way to find where you drill the hole is to hold it between your fingers gingerly and move it back and forth. If the stick stays perpendicular to the ground you found it. Very important to drill a hole exactly in the middle. Now put some kevlar string (any other type of string will burn and break way easily, I have discovered) through the hole and tie the ends together. I have the loop long enough to reach pat the cane about four inches but am still experimenting with different lenghths. Now, go check out some You tube videos on magical dancing cane to see how it is supposed to work and all the tricks you can do with it. It take practice but I can now make the thing hop over my arm and move all around me. Much fun as well as a tool that amazes. I always get..."How the hell are you doing that?" Oh yeah, you will have to paint the kevlar string black so it won't be seen as easily.