Like, I have a design for my yoyo, it’s an aluminum body with stainless steel rims and with POM rims too so it’s forgiving if I hit myself, so basically like a xenon prime, but I don’t know how to machine bodies, bearings, axles, and rims and color it.
That’s a really big question. Like a how do I eat an elephant question. So you gotta ask yourself if you really wanna eat that elephant all by yourself without any elephant eating experience.
Without any machining experience jumping right into a tri material design is gonna be a messy, expensive, time consuming process.
Personally I would hire one of the larger yoyo oems to make it.
I use a shop that isn’t a traditional yo-yo shop and I wouldn’t have them do a tri-material and they do machining for aerospace and super complex stuff. Because even with their experience a tri material Yoyo is a complicated thing that would require a lot of experimentation and sunk cost.
I would go to one of the shops that already will know how to machine those designs. Somewhere like top-yo, fpm, etc.
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I’ll note for an oem especially fpm who has a long waitlist they may not respond right away to a new brand and unless the order is big they won’t prioritize it over established brands they work with often. I’ve heard some folks wait 6 months to a year stuff with fpm because of that,
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Yeah honestly all the oem brands are like that. A large part of why I sought out and found a different machine shop, even if they can’t (at this time) do bi metals and such. Some of the oems didn’t respond to me. Some told me the waiting list was very long. One tried to rope me into a pyramid scheme. None were friendly.
If you are going to jump directly into tri material it’s gonna be a bit of a slog I expect.
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