# FHZ Recess Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Yo-Yo Mods and Maintenance\ **Created:** [August 4, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fhz-recess-question/17517 "2010-08-04T16:44:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![XLazyThrowerX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/b5e925/32.png) [@XLazyThrowerX](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/XLazyThrowerX)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fhz-recess-question/17517/1 "2010-08-04T16:44:54Z")
What tool do you use to carve the recess? ---
**Author:** ![XminusmikeX](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/xminusmikex/32/294_2.png) [@XminusmikeX](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/XminusmikeX)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fhz-recess-question/17517/2 "2010-08-04T16:49:26Z")
It depends, I think we all have our ways of doing it. Some use a drill and a screw driver, some a lathe. I personally use a Dremel tool in a press with a cutting bit. I’ve seen vid’s of others using a drill press to recess too, but its pretty much the same concept. ---
**Author:** ![tyler3490](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/tyler3490/32/77_2.png) [@tyler3490](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/tyler3490)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fhz-recess-question/17517/3 "2010-08-04T16:57:43Z")
> **[How to get great recesses with a drill](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php/topic,15085.0.html)** > > I know there is a video on how to recess a zero but this is a much safer and accurate way to do it. what you will need- a few small clamps (the cheap c clamps work great), drill, sharpened screwdriver, yoyo, extra nuts and bolts, block of wood,... ---
**Author:** ![mikelz777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mikelz777](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mikelz777)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fhz-recess-question/17517/4 "2010-08-04T17:25:53Z")
I used the technique shown in the link above. I have a small grinding head for my hand drill which I used to sharpen a heavy construction nail I found laying around. (I think they might call it a framing nail.) I didn’t get quite as crisp and neat of a cut as shown in the link but it was close and the recess mod is working great on my FH2. ---
**Author:** ![XLazyThrowerX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/b5e925/32.png) [@XLazyThrowerX](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/XLazyThrowerX)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fhz-recess-question/17517/5 "2010-08-04T19:30:00Z")
Could you get a good recess if you used a flat head screwdriver? ---
**Author:** ![mikelz777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mikelz777](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mikelz777)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fhz-recess-question/17517/6 "2010-08-04T19:56:51Z")
You’d have to sharpen it. I didn’t want to ruin one of my perfectly good screwdrivers so I sharpened a nail. ---
**Author:** ![XLazyThrowerX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/b5e925/32.png) [@XLazyThrowerX](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/XLazyThrowerX)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 10:57pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fhz-recess-question/17517/7 "2010-08-04T22:57:51Z")
Also, I have heard of FHZ’s having single side recesses, but what is in the other side? ---
**Author:** ![quinton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/quinton/32/376_2.png) [@quinton](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/quinton)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 11:40pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fhz-recess-question/17517/8 "2010-08-04T23:40:43Z")
Nothing, just stock FHZ. The trick is to make the single recess wider than a normal recess. ---
**Author:** ![tyler3490](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/tyler3490/32/77_2.png) [@tyler3490](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/tyler3490)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fhz-recess-question/17517/9 "2010-08-05T00:06:16Z")
> [@LazyThrower](#): > > Also, I have heard of FHZ’s having single side recesses, but what is in the other side? usually its a recess for a pad and the other side is stock ---
**Author:** ![XminusmikeX](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/xminusmikex/32/294_2.png) [@XminusmikeX](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/XminusmikeX)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fhz-recess-question/17517/10 "2010-08-12T21:34:23Z")
> [@LazyThrower](#): > > Also, I have heard of FHZ’s having single side recesses, but what is in the other side? You can schmoove ring the other side if you want.