So here’s my last one. The Pop Art. I’ll start off by saying. I am a big fan of that Tiger Shark-like shape. It’s so comfy in my hand. I love my Butterfly AL and its shape has a ton to do with it. I had such high hopes for the actual Tiger Shark from Spintastics as a beater…I won’t even go into that adventure. Anyways, love the shape and had to have a Pop Art. This thing is designed for a sport I can’t play. It’s designed to stall, and do all those amazing 5a tricks that demand something different from a yo-yo of this weight and plastic to get it to play that way. So when I play with it in my caveman like way this is what happens to me. And maybe some have experienced this. I have to sling it hard to get it to play nice and then I end up quite often giving it slack to play with. Once that happens it grabs as much string as it can and balls it up inside. Over and over this happened and so I tried the 3mm bearing in it. Well, have you ever taken a look at the pads on a Pop Art? They are massive and thick. Removing that 1mm in the bearing (bearing post modification necessary) makes the Pop Art a Brain. Auto return. So I used an x-acto knife and sliced the pads as level as I could. They now look like an overhead view of waves on an ocean. But it plays much nicer now. For me and the way I play anyway. But it’s now slightly unpredictable. It can play amazing for a while then become very unpredictable. So I figured flowing a nice level pad in there would make it just right. Again we are back to the flowing of the pads that stops me. Funny I know. I’ll hack the crap out of some stuff but pour some silicone….
I’m so scared of the mess I’ll make.