Hmm. Try cleaning / degreasing / de-oiling the bearing entirely using isopropyl alcohol or similar. I don’t recommend this because I dislike that hideous metal-on-metal grinding sound with the intensity of a thousand suns, but if you REALLY want absolutely ZERO responsiveness from the bearing.. that’s the way. As I found out the hard way, yo-yo bearings actually most frictionless with absolutely zero lubricant in them.
You will no longer want to be alive from all the noise, but hey, maybe that’s a tradeoff worth making.. for you 
agree, obviously biased, but I told @da5id I literally CANNOT think of any way this, as a c-bearing responsive, could possibly be made better (other than the smaller bearing, which is a whole different feel).
And who knows what else the future could portend for the “State” series.. one wonders.. and one says “keep a close eye on the One Drop website over the next year”
Deeperer. Deepestest.
I do agree. You can get almost exactly the same highly responsive feel by heavily lubricating the One Drop standard bearing, however with the greasebucket you never have to touch it for its entire lifetime, it is “set it and forget it forever”.
@da5id I agree, the cerakotes are really cool. We gotta slot that in somewhere too. I wonder what color.. I don’t think “gold” would work in cerakote UNLESS you could get a sparkly gold HOLY CRAP that would be AMAZING.
(my gut feeling is a jet black cerakote would be SUPER cool and a nice inversion from neon-green Deep, white Deeper.. a pure vantablack Deepest would be.. {chef’s kiss} .. the stealth bomber version..)
Excellent feedback. Please start a new topic for thoughts in this area specifically. I want all feedback on “how can this yo-yo be improved in a specific material, based on our {extensive} playtime” in there.
Oh man Vantablack would be SO cool!
Do One Drop lube fresh bearings before sending them out? I can’t remember.
Not a fan of noise lol. But if there’s no friction then what is even making the noise? Pixies trapped in the bearing who don’t like their home being spun around and around?
Hey, you’ve gotta snap out of it at some point and become Solid State.
Actually, that’d be a hilariously literal name for a re-release of the ultra-heavy Deep State prototype haha. Doesn’t represent how it plays though, which is basically the Deep State but even better for just throw/catch, sleeper, repeat; so based on how it plays it would be the ‘Catatonic State’.
Or a super light one called, Flow State.
Uh oh, I’m sensing a pattern here 
I wonder how out of hand this could become? Hah! Puuuuun innnntended!
Anyway, quite the statement. “Ahhhh I can’t stop thinkin bout em now!”
It will definitely become out of hand once it’s thrown lol
Oh my! What colorway is this??? 
We have some names selected for “future things” out but oddly enough no one has guessed them.. yet
I picked one name and @da5id already had another. They are excellent names, I guarantee satisfaction™️
Did nobody guess Dream State yet?
I do believe the bearings installed in all One Drop yo-yos purchased new are lightly lubed from factory.
@da5id please correct me if I am mistaken, I don’t want to spread misinformation
I wish I knew. Could be a tester.
I hope we see some version of splash + Sight Lines.
Lubed 10Balls are factory lubed.
A perfectly clean bearing should be pretty quiet in my experience.
SaTisfaction 
Well, yes, but at the cost of a very tiny bit of added friction. Lubing makes it smoother, and if you hyperspin the excess lubrication out, it’s only a very minor cost:
But if you want PERFECT, zero-friction then you gotta completely get ALL the lubrication out. Just give it a shot, clean it with isopropyl alcohol. I’ll post an example in the above, try it myself and show you. It will be noisier, but your tolerance for that depends on you..
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All I know is the “Too Deep” has to have some red splash in there for certain
So my cleaning routine is basically soak in 99% isopropyl, rinse in my sink while hand spinning until it feels smooth or repeat until it does, and then completely dry the bearing with a datavac.
This results in audible but pleasant sounding yoyos as long as you’re using a quality bearing, with the main benefit being no break in and consistent low responsiveness. The thing is that they get messed up and go loud from even a small amount of dust.
I have never heard anyone rinse a ball bearing. With water? Why not just dry it straight out of the isopropyl?
My logic was that soaking in alcohol does a good job of breaking down oils and whatnot but won’t do as much to displace small particles of dust in the bearing, and since I’m not just letting them air dry corrosion isn’t a concern.
Anecdotally it does work better and doesn’t add significant time to my process so why not?
I have had bearings that did not fully clean until I flushed them under the tap. I assumed there was some kind of debris that agitation alone wouldn’t dislodge.