Crack Finish on Titanium

[persson (Fabrizio Rotoloni - censorship reigns supreme)]

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Gorgeous!!! I love the natural color of titanium, and even though the anodizing process on it is very simple, I wouldn’t do it on my yo-yos, with the sole exception of the cracked finish, which I absolutely adore! I can’t figure out what they use to “mask” the latticework… if you notice from this and other photos on the RSO website, the vertical part of the hub doesn’t have it, and often there are dots instead of solid lines, as if the mask was lasered in from above… I don’t know how they do it,…

What's your rarest yoyo?

Hi! I know what pad printing is, but I’m not sure whether such a fine grid can be achieved with that technique. I’m also not sure whether a pad could adhere well to the entire concave surface of the inside of the cup, or the convex surface of the catch zone, without making the slightest smudge on such thin lines, but logically, it seems unlikely to me. In the case of the Martian in the photo, I think they used a voltage of around 50-52V to obtain the gold in the cracks. Then, after “masking,” th…