# Can anyone send pictures of an SB-4 **URL:** \ **Category:** General Yo-Yo\ **Created:** [November 22, 2018, 12:02am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/can-anyone-send-pictures-of-an-sb-4/295387 "2018-11-22T00:02:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Marm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/marm/32/46204_2.png) [@Marm](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Marm)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 12:02am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/can-anyone-send-pictures-of-an-sb-4/295387/1 "2018-11-22T00:02:12Z")
And how do you think it plays? ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/codinghorror/32/8052_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 1:41am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/can-anyone-send-pictures-of-an-sb-4/295387/2 "2018-11-22T01:41:39Z")
Google for sb-4 isn’t good enough? ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/9/5/8/9588ff17b4c3a67320c6c8dbdc4a8d311f3a11fb.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Marm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/marm/32/46204_2.png) [@Marm](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Marm)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 1:52am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/can-anyone-send-pictures-of-an-sb-4/295387/3 "2018-11-22T01:52:51Z")
I’m looking more in the flesh pictures ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/codinghorror/32/8052_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 1:57am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/can-anyone-send-pictures-of-an-sb-4/295387/4 "2018-11-22T01:57:32Z")
So you want a yo-yo … made of flesh? ---
**Author:** ![photogeek](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/photogeek/32/41072_2.png) [@photogeek](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/photogeek)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 2:08am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/can-anyone-send-pictures-of-an-sb-4/295387/5 "2018-11-22T02:08:38Z")
No, no. They mean naked photos of the SB4. ---
**Author:** ![photogeek](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/photogeek/32/41072_2.png) [@photogeek](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/photogeek)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 2:11am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/can-anyone-send-pictures-of-an-sb-4/295387/6 "2018-11-22T02:11:31Z")
Joking aside, I don’t think you’re going to find a lot of photos of or info about the SB4 since not many people own one. It’s more of a collectors yoyo than a player yoyo. That said, there is a video of @edhaponik throwing one here: > [@SB-4 (Silver Is the New Black)](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/sb-4-silver-is-the-new-black/71275): > > New video!!! SB-4!!! Exclamation points!!! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PXRC8rZ-Yc](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PXRC8rZ-Yc) And perhaps he will pop onto this thread if he notices the ping. He’s probably the best person to ask about the SB4. ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/codinghorror/32/8052_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 2:19am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/can-anyone-send-pictures-of-an-sb-4/295387/7 "2018-11-22T02:19:12Z")
It is kinda weird for Tom Kuhn to make a “standard” metal unresponsive yo-yo. Looks like they did it together with Chico yo-yo company? ---
**Author:** ![edhaponik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/edhaponik/32/150896_2.png) [@edhaponik](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/edhaponik)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 2:42am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/can-anyone-send-pictures-of-an-sb-4/295387/8 "2018-11-22T02:42:42Z")
Hahaha wow I can safely say that I haven’t thought of that video since I made it. TK paid for a 1-off shirt design from like cafepress or something, and uh… there weren’t too many more SB-4’s than that lol. There were even fewer of the Cobalt version - I may have had the only one lol: [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/4/0/5/405801a8cff8bd8b01ea5d38d41f1846ee4d6d9f.jpeg "cobalt") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5O95m2XR-A) It was a perfectly serviceable yo-yo in a world of significantly better yo-yo’s. It wasn’t bad - just sort of ordinary - which is what they were going for. If you think about it, most of the TK releases were pretty radical for their time - No Jive, Silver Bullet, SB-2, Sleep Machine, Pocket Rocket, RD-One… all of these took cracks at designs which really had zero precedent. SB-4 was LITERALLY the opposite, farmed out to a fine but kinda run-of-the-mill metal yo-yo outfit and meant to bring TK into the world of the run-of-the-mill modern metal yo-yo’s which were being consumed with relish. IMO that was sort of a betrayal of the Tom Kuhn brand. For whatever reason, it really did not make the leap in terms of yoyo community appeal. The yo-yo was basically crowd-funded, and I don’t know the details of how overextended the company became with regard to production, but I do know that A LOT of the pre-orders were not fulfilled, with no immediate plan to fix it. That became the main reason why I walked away from my relationship with the company. There was nothing “wrong” with the yo-yo, but that was the best you could say about it - that and the fact that it still had Tom’s name on it. I should emphasize that I retain enormous respect for Tom Kuhn (he has nothing to do with the day-to-day running of the company) and I was always treated well by Brad and Lisa Countryman. I left that arrangement on good terms, with efforts being made to fulfill orders. But I think that yo-yo did more harm to the TK brand than good. ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/codinghorror/32/8052_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 3:11am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/can-anyone-send-pictures-of-an-sb-4/295387/9 "2018-11-22T03:11:52Z")
Well there ya go … straight from the horse’s mouth! It don’t get much better than that! 🐎