It's like making rock candy.

1) Heat water up

2) Pour in lots of sugar and disolve it all.

3) Dip string in + wait for it to cool + form crystals on the string.

Here's the thing -- many times we just do steps 1 + 2 -- never continuing on to step 3.

It can't become rock candy, UNTIL YOU PUT THE STRING IN and allow all the elements to 'stick to' the string, and form on the string.

Dip the damn string in -- or nothing's gonna happen!

Cheers!

-- TW