Most of my aqua monometals are Shutters of one kind or another, and they’re quite good, but I’m wondering if there’s anything better out there.
So, can anyone recommend a monometal, that is currently available, that comes in a solid aqua colorway, and which, in your opinion, plays better than the Shutter? And just to be clear, for me “better” just means spins longer and is more stable (and neither super-wide like the WA, nor heavy like the OG Shutter).
(And when I say aqua, I mean a rich, saturated aqua like the Shutter.)
I guess this is largely because nobody aside from YYF routinely releases monometals in (solid) aqua. Therefore, the Shutters just kinda win by default.
7068 Bowl was my immediate suggestion until I saw “currently available”. I don’t think there’s any left out there. That’s a beautiful shade and quite the player.
However, to my mind it is disqualified on two counts:
It isn’t currently available, as you’ve pointed out.
It is sufficiently different in design from the Shutter that I don’t think it really sets out to accomplish the same thing as the Shutter (apart from simply “being a yoyo”). Consequently I don’t know if it is valid to be comparing them in a “which is better” analysis.
Yes, those aqua b-grade Genesises are stunning. I have two of them. In fact, they may very well be the best aqua ano I’ve ever seen (the OG Shutter is pretty much the same, BTW).
But is the b-grade Genesis really a better throw than a Shutter? I kinda think of them as being roughly equal.
I like it better. I like the versatility of the shutter design but I think the Genesis is kinda floatier and yet more commanding and just so powerful in my opinion. Especially with one drop pads and a OD bearing.
I can’t think of an aqua that isn’t YYF tbh. I’d say maybe the most recent MVP? I don’t know if it plays better so much as different and excelling at what it tries to do.
I believe YYR released both the Helvetica and the Futura in aqua. I have a MYY Carpfin in aqua. It is rare, for sure, and that’s kinda my point. Finding a solid aqua monometal other than YYF’s offerings–of which the Shutter is the most common–is exceedingly difficult.
