yeah, for the most part you’re going to want the walls to be pretty even and thin, except for the rims which are thicker and heavier.
I would be careful about taking too much advice from too many people. Nothing against anything that has been said here; but design by committee deserves the poor reputation it has for a reason.
Follow your own heart and mind.
I agree. Definitely don’t give up! One Drop is just totally inundated with work but Foxland can do a great job as well. Personally I would love to be as lucky as the BLT crew and find a local guy…it would be so amazing to be able to be able to actually see the process.
Okay, I’ll just keep in mind the critical things. :3
Second sketch might come if the wall isn’t thick enough.
-Kev
One thing to look out for is too much rim weight. It will cause a horribly unforgiving throw and vibe issues. As One drop taught me Avoid large amounts of axial rim weight.
It takes allot more than people think to design a proper stable SMOOTH spinning yoyo. You can be off a thousandth of an inch and it will be a problem.
That design looks great though keep it up!!!
Do most protos start a 300 for one yoyo?
Looks sharp. Tone down the edges a bit… Round them more. I can imagine that hurting.
no no no. protos should cost generally less than $100 most of the time. Foxland charges $70 and one drop does 60. (this is just my experience)
Don’t go asking for one proto. It’s far cheaper to get 5 yoyo’s compared to one. If you get one it would probably be $300 for the programming and $25 for machining. If you get 5 its more reasonable. Probably $300 for programming and $125 for machining. Those are just estimates based on the prices I’ve seen named.
It was foxland who was requesting 300 when they replied back. :s
foxland charges $300 for FOUR prototypes. $75 per yoyo.
Oh… I’ll double check on that. ^^
Did they tell you about programming costs? Because these prices seem completely off.
Actually, I think that includes programing costs, but I’m not sure. They told me $300 for 4 yo-yos, so I just figured it into 75 each.
It’s a fixed price. Doesn’t change. You pay $300 and get 4 protos. No discussion. Each yo-yo figures to be worth $75, but you can’t ask for one and pay $75. Doesn’t work like that. The $300 does include programming and such as well.
Hope this clears things up 
Yeah. And its the same deal with Onedrop roughly. $600 gets you 25 HALVES. They generally make a couple mistakes so you end up with 10 yoyos. But that $600 covers every step of production, as long as you come in with a sketch. It can even be rough and not exact.
I got a dwg set up on my student version autoCAD for foxland to do a couple of yoyos.
I just need to know if the student version is okay and need to raise $300.
BTW the yoyo is a small bearing and is 53.78 mm in diameter
The small bearing thing, did you consider a “D” bearing? Fewer snags, and if you want, you can get 5x11x4 bearings.