LOVE the new versions, but no one will ever convince me that any surpasses this Takeshi-modded take-apart Sparkle-fly wood axle with Ignite guts. 
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Oh, the things I would do just to be able to dig through your yoyo cabinet and pick your brain on every little detail.
This thing looks amazing! Thatās my grail, now. Iāve been racking my brain trying to come up with a grail. I knew Iād know it when I see it.
Am I bummed that my grail is unobtainable? No. I think thatās what makes it a grail, right?
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I gotta lotta weird old stuff. Wish I had half of what Iāve let go ofā¦ Almost everything Iāve got has some interesting provenance (to me anyway lol).
In terms of unattainablity, I dunno. Seems like a lot of folks could be qualified to synthesize those two throws (albeit maybe not w Mitchās unique mojo).
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Thats what makes it my grail.
Sure, I could get someone to make me one or even attempt it myself, but itād just be another yoyo. Itās special, to me, because itās been modded by Takeshi and owned by Ed Haponik.
I can live happy just knowing it exists. 
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How does it play?
Plays like a slightly wider Ignite (or like a slightly sharper ProFly). Itās great.
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Very neatā thanks!
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This thing looks awesome!
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Wonder if it can be done with No Jive Axel and the YYF Cork Retro Pads.
Trying to decide if I should ask @pyrotechnic.
LOL
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Where can I get those YYF Retro Cork Pads?
No jive axle wonāt work, need the Spintastics wooden axle like Ed has in his. Will need a sacrificial yoyo that uses cork pads.
Man those neon green and black modsā¦ 
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First shot at a Butterfly string.
This is cotton and trilobal poly and plays nice. It needs to be a tad thicker, with more cotton than poly. Iāll be giving that a shot later today when I get a chance.
This is also a bit looser of a wind than your average Throw-Yo string, but still tighter than what youād normally get with a Butterfly.
Iām thinking of calling these Nectars.
I bought a few simple colors of cotton: white, cream, grey, and black. Those, combined with the colors of poly I have, should make for some interesting combinations.
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@Exmime - I finally got this up. Let me know when you make any changes and Iāll make sure they make it on the Archive!
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Hey @theyoyoarchive, thanks for sharing this!
I have some recommended edits and additions for the 2021 butterflies:
- ā2021- New mold for the Contemporary Butterfly, these have a 6 letter code compared to the previous 5.ā ā This was an initial rumor that didnāt end up being substantiated. As far as Iāve seen all new and previous generation butterflies use a 5 letter code, and we donāt know what info they encode.
Please feel free to link my write up on identifying the new-mould butterflies: An unofficial guide to identifying the new Duncan Butterflies
- āSome special editions from a Japanese store have new version of a Triangle Butterfly graphic in translucent yellow and black.ā
These are called the YoyoManiax versions (I donāt think there is any harm in naming the vendor, just not using a link)
They come in fluorescent yellow, red and a blue (which is more green/blue than the standard blue butterfly), with black caps, and either gold or silver stamps. Might be worth giving these their own bullet point.
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This is awsome. I spent the summer in 2021 after National Yoyo Day posting the 60 plus years of Butterflys every week showing samples in Fixed Axle Friday Throws
No one ever claimed the $100K prize money
Still a prize in the collection
These keep on going and going
One more because of the @drewtetz clip
There are breaks here and there to play TMBRs
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Did you ever cut apart an original wooden butterfly? I keep seeing people say they were one piece, but all Iāve seen have not been. The ones I own have glued in axles.
Also, in my research looks like 1956 was the first year of the Butterfly, from old newspaper ads.
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I have never had one come apart, and at this point they are becoming antiques, even though I play them still, I have one mint one and it has a rough cut response similar to a Legend Wing. The Yoyo Museum has them listed as One piece wood and that seems to be the standard out of Wisconsin. 1958 is also the Date that @rickbr listed in the museum. I do have a smaller advertising wood butterfly that is Three Piece however form the sixties. The 2004 and 2016 reproductions are Three Piece and do fall apart due to dried out glue.
From Yoyo Museum
"This butterfly was put onto an alternate versioned card labeled as No. 707 B. The front of the card has a very different design compared to the design on model No. 707 also seen in this museum. The back of this No. 707 B card does not have any printing while No. 707 has printing. Perhaps the āBā meant āblankā or āblank backā. Duncan literature from this time period suggests that it stood for bagged or poly-bagged. The yo-yo model is identical for both versioned cards. Originally sold for 69Ā¢. Blue lacquer with aluminum flecked finish.
"About mid 1962 or early 1963, Duncan began to make the change from using three digit product stock numbers to four digits. They also switched over from using polybags to bubble carded product. As such, it is fairly easy to date these early poly-bagged Duncan yo-yos.
The Duncan Butterfly was first released in 1958. A yo-yo demonstrator named Wayne Lundberg introduced the idea for reversing the traditional tournament-shaped wooden halves and making a yo-yo that had a wider string gap. The wider gap helped kids perform more complex string tricks. While the actual Butterfly design has been around since 1878 (see patent 207527, by William Katz, for āImprovement in bandelore toyā, August 27, 1878), Duncan was the first company to actually mass produce them. The Butterfly yo-yo was changed by Duncan from wood to plastic in 1968. In the words of Bob Rule, long time yo-yo player and last demonstrator on Duncanās payroll, āProbably the advancement I see the most is the Butterfly invented by Wayne Lundberg. I called it a bicycle with training wheels but had to accept it as it helped the players advance in skill so fast.ā"
Compare to the similar 75th anniversary wooden Butterfly in this museum and the No. 707.
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Dang, I gotta organize my brain and remember all of thisā¦ ā¢ shuffle shuffle sweep shove ā¢~ Drat! Iām all out of roomā¦ I donāt need Physics and Algebra, right?..ā¦ alright, thatāll do itā I now know everything about the Duncan Butterfly!.. ā¦whereād I put Physicsā¦
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