Eternal String

Magician shows a length of string. He then winds it around his fingers and twists it into a small ball. The ball of string is them pulled apart and broken into many strands. Magician gathers up the shredded pieces and restores the string to its original state. Magician proceeds to repeat the effect only this time placing the shredded pieces in the spectators hand. Performer then shows his hands empty, fingers wide apart. He gathers up shredded pieces of string from spectators hand, balls up the broken pieces and once agian restores it to its original state. He can then hand the string to the spectator to be freely examined.