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MY CIRCLE BOARD
The layout of the table, in our case my Mum's lovely old card table with its green baize circle, is moved and placed so that we can get right around it. I had my board printed to my specification but any sensible layout with the alphabet etc will be alright. The planchette must be able to rest on the surface of whatever board you have and be able to move freely on its surface.
Seating around a layout with five people is sometimes difficult and needs some thinking about as they will probably need seating room.

THE PLANCHETTE
This can be made of any thing which can easily move over your board.
As long as it is constructed so that as it goes to and fro it can be clearly seen to stop over the chosen alphabet letter, word or made up wording on the board. It will need a pointer or possibly a hole in it big enough to see clearly which letter it might have stopped over.
It is quite annoying if it appears to indicate one of two letters and whizzes on! You generally don't get much time to start guessing. If it 'hovers' over one place and makes small to and fro movements, it is simply accentuating that letter or set of words.
My planchette is a three-ply piece of polished wood. It is very light and has a hole in the middle big enough for a letter to be seen when it pauses over it or if it indicates one of the sets of letters, ("hello") for example, it indicates by going across the layout to the letter it wants. Keep the planchette and any surface it must move over clean and, if possible polished. Sceptics will often say that the planchette is pushed. That of course is ludicrous.


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