How’s the Badger compared to the Alpha, Natural series and Buffalo?
The Badger and Alpha are basically same dimensions but Alpha has hole response?
Have a purple Badger incoming, super excited
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The Badger is the heaviest of the newer Boise Woodworks throws aside from the oak Trees, but the Badger is still only ~55 grams. The Buffalo is my go to but the Walnut Alpha is a close second. Both are in the 50-53 gram range, the Buffalo also has a slightly tighter gap. I’ve already talked to @Rich about making me a Walnut Buffalo.
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Does the Cherry Alpha have holes? I know there was a walnut throw that had the response holes as it went through the body completely.
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Yep, but the Cherry and Walnut Alphas have holes. Cherry is around 41 grams and the Walnut is around 52 grams. I have both and really enjoy both but I lean towards the Walnut for both it’s weight and color. Walnut is one of my favorite woods, color wise and I’m finding that I like woodies between upper 40s and low 50s.
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Can I offer any advice?
I’ve said this on Discord, but Rich has been KILLING it with his fixies. They’re crazy good for what you’re getting. I steered away from the Cherry Alpha personally because it seemed kind of light for my taste, but grabbed a Walnut Alpha and it’s awesome! Badger feels like a butterflied Apollo to me, which I love, and the Buffalo has one of the smoothest pull-starts on a fixie I’ve played in a while. Also grabbed a Cherry Tree before I saw he made a walnut version, and while I WAS worried about the light weight on that one, the weight distribution is so nice that it definitely plays heavier feeling than I expected, very enjoyable, and the natural no-finish feels nice and different in the hand. Haven’t been disappointed in anything I’ve tried recently.
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Always welcome!
Okay, so what part might you be struggling with? The take off or the landing? Or both? 
The take off! Getting the spin just right is giving me a hell of a time.,
Top of hand to one hand trapeze to moon lunar was sick
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So happy to see you guys keeping this alive. Thank you to everybody for all their hard work behind the scenes.
Happy Fixed Axle February to all.
Cheers
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I’ve been struggling with varials as well (which I initially thought were shuvits). It seems like last night things began to click for me on the takeoff…much easier keeping the stall close/small, and pinching the string that’s coming off my TH when I initiate the spin. Myself, I’m finding it easier to it spinning CCW…or if I were skating, doing it frontside (I skate regular). Going to see if I can finally catch this on video, cleanly…
Edit - got around to attempting this on video. Maybe I should walk before running and stick with a single rotation lol
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Rich at Boise dropped some new stuff, grabbed some, the specs look good, would likely make a solid throw for FAF if anyone is looking since wood fixies are harder to find
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would love to see some brake holes in the future but these looks awesome for the price!!
i grabbed that one full spectraply buffalo
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Nice! The holes might impact the finger spins unless placed further out
I grabbed a Natural Oak and the rainbow wedge Buffalo (which has to be the prettiest yoyo I have seen in ages)
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i am wondering how big a difference the holes actually make, at least regarding actual response and not the reduced center weight
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From my experience it’s very little, going off what Ed has made me. Wood used and gap width being in the sweet spot seem to be the main factors, but they look super cool and if the wood is a very slick oily wood, they definetly help in those scenarios as the oily wood makes it harder to respond
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just always see the holes on them fancy shmancy spinworthy fixies lol
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The Button by SW was what brought them mainstream, they might have been used in yoyos way back but they were long forgotten. Glen really nailed it. The holes Ed and Rich are using are much smaller, I am unsure how much impact hole size has on response, but the Button remains as one of the best fixies I have ever played