Balancing a Leviwand

For Aetheria,
I'm sorry I made you such a long video; I didn't have time to write a short one.
(Similar sentiment by Blaise Pascal, 1657; John Locke, 1690; Benjamin Franklin, 1750; and Mark Twain, 1871.)

[@HannahEWelch-sg5dx]

Thank you!!! This is so helpful! I’ve been trying to figure out what was going wrong with my astral, and this makes way more sense. I added some washers to the front top and a little extra on the bottom front and instantly better. Thank you again!!!

[@DaltonSessumes]

Thanks for such a great video, April!
Question- why do we want the wand to balance at a 1 o'clock position instead of as close to vertical as possible without coming into contact with the string? This would be something like 10 or 15 degrees depending on the size of the end weights. Being somewhat of a perfectionist, I personally would prefer my wand to be straight up and down any time it is possible, but having it balance at 1 o'clock instead of 10 degrees or so would seem to prevent that. What's your thought process here?

[@AprilJenniferChoi]

Dalton, so the string angle depends on how fast you play with your levi-wand. The average wander is about the 1 o'clock position.
Think about this: Tie a string to a washer and spin it in a horizontal plane slowly, notice that it points more downward than if you were to spin it in a horizontal plane quickly, which would be flatter and higher up.
The faster a levi-wander plays with their wand, the more tilt they'd want. The slower wanders would want a more vertical wand.
Extremely slow wanders basically don't even lift the wand away from the resting position, so they'd want it as vertical as possible. Extremely fast wanders could basically ignore gravity and want the string to CG vector to be perfectly perpendicular to the wand; in other words, the wand would be Horizontal (3 or 9 o'clock position) in the presence of gravity.
There are more factors, like wand diameter, that will affect tilt, but then this video would be way too long.