Sean CLaNZeR's Hamel Spinner 1

Sean, why don't you mark the top of the disk magnet with a sharpie pen, with one short straight line, so that we can see what's going on.

If he could hold his hands perfectly still, it won't work

Making the bottom of the spinner a ball helps a lot. When it leans over, the point of contact with the table is just a little off the axis of rotation. This way the sideways motion of the ring can be fairly slow and the spinner will spin quite fast. It is a good illusion but any high school kid who thinks about it is likely to see how it is done.

Nothing special.

I have found that this only spins because of the small movements of the hand. If you mount the upper part it does not turn.