Duncan butterfly al with delrin cap thoughts. Who has one

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Ok folks I’m still looking for a responsive and I’ve narrowed it down to a Duncan butterfly aluminum with the delrin caps or I’m definitely going with a deepest state but I want to know who has this Duncan and what are your thoughts.

I need a responsive in my life and the Duncan with delrin caps looks nice. No ugly branding just a clean looking yoyo

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I have both Butterfly ALs and neither is my favorite, in spite of being a huge fan of both the OG and the XT.

Between them I’d get the Deepest State with the Grease Bucket. OneDrop seems like they’ll do more runs whereas with the Butterfly AL you’ll be resigned to the BST.

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I wouldn’t recommend AL Butterflys to beginners as they are finicky with set up, a lot of threads on this if you search. The 2023 AL version actually plays really good without the caps, but these caps are known to warp and you might not have a choice. If you tinker you can get them to remain flat and stay on. The Weekender and Confusion series are just better A bearing players in this category.

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I mirror Keith’s feelings on this. I felt like I had to have both versions of the AL and neither was great. It took a lot of tuning to get them…ok.

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Appreciate it folks. I found a brand new onedrop deepest state jawbreaker for 82 shipped so I jumped on it. The Duncan looks like a nice yo-yo It was on my list. I told my wife that I’m gonna stop buying yoyos for awhile now that I have 6 unresponsive and now a responsive. I want to focus on practicing and less buying.

I’m going to start from the beginning. Start with all responsive tricks then move to unresponsive. To be honest I’m getting tired of buy buy buy then not practice.

I sold x2 of my yo-yos the MK1 ring bearer and my sprout and used the sprout money to buy the deepest state

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I will prepare you before hand. The States are all semi-responsive out of the box. The Greasebucket bearing is a grease filled bearing that makes it play very responsive. So if it doesn’t come with a Greasebucket you may not be fully happy with it. I know you have spent more than you’d like and the thought of spending more is not happy times, so… if you get the Deepest State and it’s not responsive enough for you I’ll offer a few suggestions.

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You have a very solid plan in place, do make sure you pickup a grease bucket if you haven’t already.

Starting responsive will help you big time in the long run from my experience. If you go to the channel below and check out his playlists, it’ll be a great guide on learning responsive.

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Firstly, you can grease the bearing that comes in it yourself. It’s not too difficult and I don’t mind coaching you through it if you’d like.

Secondly you could try double looping the string as a temporary solution you might even like. I can also explain that if needed.

Third, I don’t mind sending you a greased bearing for your Deepest State that I know you’ll enjoy and it will give you reliable maintenance free response for a long time. No charge of course just need you to DM your address to me. It’s very easy to get incredible response from the Deepest State so if you are a tad underwhelmed when you get it don’t despair.

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Thanks to both of you. The problem is is that I think jumping into unresponsive and not going responsive first has been frustrating me. I’m also overthinking far too much.

So I sat down last night and I’m like you know what I want to learn but I think I need to start from the beginning which I should have done in the first place. I should have bought a responsive yo-yo and learned responsive and then moved up to unresponsive. Unresponsive is fun, but it’s definitely made me more frustrated so I have a plan in place.

The jawbreaker does not come with the grease bucket bearing it comes with the semi-responsive one. I’ll order one so I have it and then I’ll go from there and see which way I like to go. I actually found some deepest state yo-yos on a website called slower things which is a retailer for one drop and they had the jawbreaker and a blue deepest state in stock. So if anybody’s interested in a deep estate maybe hit up that website which can be found on the OneDrop site

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If you’re located in the US the Butterfly XT is a great $5 responsive starter and is widely available at Target.

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I’ve never heard of Slower Things, but it looks like a cool site, with a cool premise.

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Neither have I I found it on the OneDrop retailers page and saw they had deepest states for sale so I jumped on it and they have 20% off right now

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