Lost a clyw yeti at a trampoline park back in 2014
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This is a little bit off the original subject, but I think some of you guys will find it interesting. Somewhere around 20 years ago one of the guys I work with show some interest in five a yo-yo play.
The next day, I brought him a five a rig… A free hand and a red die on the end of the string.
I said here is a yo-yo set up for you put it in the glove box of your old truck and now and then maybe you could throw it around. He said wow thanks a lot and put it in the glove box of his old Chevy truck.
Like I said, it’s been around 20 years or so. The other day when we were at work at the beginning of the shift, we were standing out by his truck and he was looking for something. As I walked around the passenger side of his truck, he said, maybe it’s in my glove box? He opened up his glove box and has he reached in the free hand yo-yo kind of rolled out Dice and all.
He said wow… Check that out… I forgot all about it. It’s that yo-yo you gave me about 20 years ago.
With a perfectly straight poker face, I looked at him and said yeah one of these days maybe you can toss it around…
No further mention of it and we moved on to our work areas.
I might as well have lost it. If I probably would’ve been walking down the sidewalk 20 years ago and just dropped it on the ground, somebody might’ve picked it up and actually got some use out of it lol.
It’s kind of sad for me personally to think skill toy made to have fun with has been in solitary confinement for 20 years.
Oh well
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What color was it? Was it a good playing yoyo?
Dang that’s a shame! Funny in a way, but ya gotta feel for the little Freehand…
I have a feeling the Fulvia I gifted has been resigned to the same fate
It was like a gold and brownish bronze acid wash. It’s been a long time so it’s hard to remember how well it played but I know I liked it. Kinda undersized by today’s standards and a little heavier if I remember correctly but SPYY made nothing but quality yo-yos that sell fast on the forum even today
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woke up one day and realized i hanvt seen my northstar in forever, but oh well at least it was just a northstar and not something of more value
I lost my YYF Too Hot while on a roadtrip to Vegas with my family. That’s the yoyo I used the most when I was in middle school, so I was pretty bummed when I lost it.
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Lost my yyf heist somewhere in Vietnam because it’s so tiny 
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*POW intensifies
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2008 - I left my YoYoFactory Grind machine 2 at my girlfriend’s place. We lived an hour away from each other at the time and she was in the middle of moving to a new apartment. She put some of my stuff in a box and according to her, the GM2 was in there.. We met half way and she gave me the box. I get back to my place and there’s no GM2 to be found. She swore up and down it was in the box. She looked everywhere and couldn’t find it. I looked everywhere, couldn’t find it. It just vanished! To - This - DAY! She still swears up and down it was in the box.
It has kind of turned into a running joke now. We’ll both bring it up from time to time as a giggle-jab at each other.
2017 - I was in Ireland traveling around. I took my beloved Y-Factor, Yelets, 54, and Metal Skyva with me on the trip. We rented a cool place for about 3 weeks and I took a yoyo out with me each time we went out somewhere. When it was time to leave I packed up all of my stuff and headed out. To my surprise, when we got back to Indiana.. I couldn’t find my 54! I remember seeing it before we packed up and left but somehow it didn’t manage to make it back with us. I am pretty sure I left the 54 either in the cup holder in the rental car or on the dang counter in the villa. Sadly it was never seen again, still pretty bummed about this one.
This particular 54 was my buddy! I rescued that 54 from the death grip of a recliner (it fell out of my pocket one night years before this trip we went on) I didn’t know it fell out of my pocket and it fell down into the recliner, when I put the foot-rest down, the YoYo got caught between the mechanism somehow. It bent the axle and the side effects cup / capture. I thought it was a goner! I sent it in to One Drop and they determined it wasn’t repairable.
I figured since it was now determined to be a beater I’d try to get it at least “good enough to throw”. Somehow, I managed to fix it by replacing the axle in the side effect and cautiously massaging the dent out of the SE cup. It played smooth as glass and became my most favorite 54 at the time. I sold all of the other colors I had (except for a prototype) and kept that one. I wish I could find another in this colorway ( Green / Pewter haze) or just a first gen 54 even haha!
2024 - This dang Freehand 1. Worlds 2023 edition Large bearing in pink. It played “ok” out of the box but I felt like it could be better. I proceeded to tune the snot out of it. Trimmed down flashings and rough spots from manufacturing, balanced it out on the lathe. Printed some weight rings and trimmed and balanced those out so everything was as smooth as totally possible. I had this freehand DIALED IN! It was as smooth as a dang metal YoYo and it slept for-ev-er. I played with it like this for 3 weeks!
Then, one day I took it with me in my truck to run some errands and I haven’t seen it since! I’ve tore my truck apart on the inside and couldn’t find it. Looked everywhere in my workshop where I was keeping it at the time. Haven’t seen it since. Just, poof! Gone! I have no idea where it could have gotten because I thought I would have heard it fall out of the truck or something. But it’s been like 6 months I don’t think it’s going to show up now.
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Moving is like that! Goblins steal your good stuff. Last time I moved I lost a box of knives I’d been collecting for years including a benchmade balisong that I can’t replace.
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Oof, that’s a bummer!!
It’s like that when I leave a shop and have to move my tool box, carts, and all the loose stuff I have stashed around for convenience. I always end up losing something when I get a new job, it’s inevitable. Last job change cost me several hundred in lost tools, because I was the lead tech/ shop manager and had been dealing with so much I had forgotten where some stuff was, some people “borrowed” stuff and hadn’t been back in a while, etc etc. When I left I was so over all the BS, I just thought “screw it” and cut my losses. Haven’t replaced some of the stuff, too niche and too expensive.
Don’t become a mechanic.
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