Thank you - that’s exactly the sort of info I was hoping for.
Would you happen to know if the early Flying Camels have a similar feel to the early No Jives? I lucked out and got one on ebay last night and it looks to be the 3-in-wonder Flying Camel - which I assume is the same or similar vintage to the green box No Jives?
Also, if you configure a Flying Camel in the imperial configuration, does the string snag on the engravings?
Flying Camel (especially the earlier versions) are laser carved like all of the Mandala models. This means that while they CAN be flipped, they really won’t feel the same and will certainly have way more friction/buzz between the string and the side wall.
The era of No Jive you are looking at is definitely very different in feel from the models which came out after production moved from SF to the east coast. I like them both, but I can certainly see how your husband would feel like they were different yoyos altogether. Good luck and welcome!
@doubleplusgoodly i’ll give you a green box no jive much cheaper than $80 if you want to PM me. i have a large TK collection and i’m trying to trim down a few
@doubleplusgoodly to send @fatguysnacks247 a private message, just tap his avatar and select ‘message’.
I love this place so much.
Wood yo-yo weights are more estimates than anything. They tend to vary quite a bit so you may have an outlier or the one we weighed may have been an outlier… I can check a few more weights on Monday when I get to the office to get a better “Average weight” for the page.
And if you’re not happy with that one or just want to exchange it for a lighter one send me a PM and I can take care of it for you.
Done. And thank you for helping me navigate that. Much appreciated.
And kudos to you on your beautiful yoyos. My husband has been out of the loop with the yoyo world for so long, he was surprised to see that the whole industry has shifted to unresponsive yoyos. In fact, he recently picked up a sort of normal-looking yoyo at a thrift store (Blazing Team something or other) and was rather perplexed when he couldn’t figure out how to make it return. Lol. so I had to explain to him that there’s been this whole industry shift toward unresponsive yo-yos. And then I told him that there are a couple of craftsmen (like yourself and TMBR) that have led a counter-revolution back toward wooden fixed axles. And I showed him the Harbinger (he thought the purple hearts were beautiful) and the TMBR lines (Sullivan Purpleheart is the one he liked) and he was impressed. What you and TMBR (and Hildy Brothers and Once Upon a Tree) are doing is very cool.
I got some clarification on my husband’s old No Jive last night, and the replacement one that he was unhappy with was actually not a BC - it was a pink/red box. His original was green box, tapered hex nut, shiny but not excessively shiny, and the logo was lightly burned into it (not painted) with the burn lighter toward the bottom. I’ve been unable to ascertain what order the colored boxes were released in, so I have no idea what the timeline would be for a green vs brown box No-Jive.
As for the flying camel, I bought it before I understood that it’s a butterfly configuration. Since my husband prefers throwing imperial/classic, I probably won’t hang onto it. But, it’s a 3-in-wonder, so hopefully I can find it a good home. I don’t think he’d get enough use out of it to justify keeping it, and a 3-in-wonder is probably somebody’s white whale - seems silly for us to keep it (plus, despite my willingness to find him the perfect yoyo, we’re not actually made of money, though my posts probably give that impression).
Thanks again for the friendly help for this noob.
Cool how this is so obvious to an outsider looking in.
oh goodness, please don’t use that as a ping pong ball. 
With all of the research I did shopping for my husband’s birthday yo-yos, I was really digging the history of yoyos & got kind of hooked on the idea of having one of my own. Got this in the mail yesterday - my first throw @ 44 years old!
I never had a yoyo as a kid, but I can already retrieve (with the string double looped around the axle - lol). It’s a start. 
That looks like an amazing find. I hope you enjoy it. Also, please remember, we are all on our own journey in yoyoing. There is never a need to apologize for skill level. As an adult here, I always want to support others who are juggling life, career, marriage, hobbies. I know you have seen it already, but, never be afraid to ask questions, this is one of the most supportive and friendly pieces of the internet.
Sorry, forgot about this earlier. I just weighed 3 of them and I got 41.72g, 40.18g, & 39.85g. 47g seems high, but with wood there is always outliers.
One thing I’m wondering is if you got a Maple by mistake? Take a look at the pictures to double check.
Incredibly it was only $10 including shipping on eBay. I figure if I can become proficient on this one, all the rest should be easier. Anyway, I don’t think there’s that much interest in yo-yos that old, (except to collectors, but I think they are outnumbered by the available yoyos by a wide margin) - or maybe I just got lucky. I was really hoping to score a Flores and then work my way through the historical yoyos decade-by-decade, but a Flores was out of my budget.
Now, as for string – do most here use 100% cotton? Or cotton poly?
And, does string go bad/become brittle? I know that old, vintage cotton embroidery floss does - put too much pressure on it while embroidering & it snaps.
I’m throwing the Goody with some 1960s Royal 100% cotton that I got on the bay in a lot of Duncan yoyos, but am wondering if it would be wise to buy some newer string so that I don’t wind up flinging my yoyo across the house if/when the string snaps?
Some of the older yoyos have pretty narrow gaps compared to today. If you pickup any new string I’d get Type 8 cotton for them.
Like food , if its questionable- then it’s time for it to go.
Better to toss a 10cent string than damage your yoyo/home/cat/spouse/self.
