Balancing Nail or balancing Pencil Challenge

The nail balance challenge has been around for years, I remember seeing it when I was in high school, but here is a new twist to it. The challenge is a simple demonstration of balancing a dozen nails by arranging them in a sequence that holds them together and then supporting the entire group above it's center of gravity. . So here is the challenge done with a variety of nails from sizes of 5 inches down to less than an inch. As they get smaller it does become quite a bit harder. What is new is that I've tried to do a variation of the trick by reproduce the challenge with pencils. It can be done, but a slight alteration is needed to the heads of the hanging pencils.

this video is a reposting of a previous video that accidentally included copyrighted music. It has been removed from this version

[adget]

I'm 50, but when I grow up I want to be just like you. You rock!

[rjung_ch]

I wish more teachers would be like you Bruce, the kids can only learn from such playful teaching habits. Thank you! 👍💪✌

[theinspector]

Another excellent piece. Thank you Bruce.

[marcel_max]

Hello from Taiwan, thanks for this video

[abhishes]

I can't believe it's that simple. OK I'm running to Home Depot right now

[ahmad-murery]

And now dear students, we have 12 used pencils for sale😁
Thanks Mr. Bruce, that was really informative yet fun as usual 💯

[lightdark]

I’ve seen this kind of thing before, but the bending the ferrel part on the pencils to Mae them work was new to me. It seems like cheating, but something a magician would do to fool people.

[GrandadIsAnOldMan]

Copyright music is a curse on YouTube. Great video Bruce, you make learning fun 😁😁👍👍

[Bibibosh]

I wanna know how on earth did you find all them pencils. Brand new ones for the matter. Like if you're giving me 1 million dollars to find a pencil in less then 1 minutes, id be 1 million poorer. Yet you have over 10 amazingly perfected engineered unused pencils! That is worthy of a like, or thumbs up. What ever they call it these days, but no wait. How many pencils did you actually have? Man thats alot of pencils. Imagine a place on earth that has that many pencils pencil in the same room at the same time and all the same ! Crazy that stuff must be a 1 in decamillion or something what ever they call that big number beyond a quadrillion . But man o man, you even recorded it yourself! Truely the camera man never dies in this situation. Gaww blimey that's really made my day seeing 10 pencils all together. I didn't even know the world had that many pencils. Crikey mate.

Well if you ever get the chance to send me a pencil, id truly appreciate it tenfold. Haha get it? Ten pencils ? Tenfold!