# Making yoyos

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**Category:** General Yo-Yo\
**Created:** [January 22, 2014, 6:59pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/making-yoyos/63226 "2014-01-22T18:59:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![shen703](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/shen703/32/924_2.png) [@shen703](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/shen703)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 6:59pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/making-yoyos/63226/1 "2014-01-22T18:59:53Z")

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Howdy y’all!

Me and my friend were thinking of starting a yoyo company. Maybe a small one, to have fun and make yoyos for the community. But I was wondering, what do we need to start? I know that there are machine shops to make them, but what kind of software, materials, and other things do we need to produce, ano, and sell yoyos?

Thanks,

Shen703

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**Author:** ![sparhawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@sparhawk](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/sparhawk)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/making-yoyos/63226/2 "2014-01-22T19:20:39Z")

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There’s a couple people on here with experience so it might be best to ask them. There’s also a couple other threads like this but I’m not willing to look them up and you can probly take a look at the up and coming manufacturers since a lot of their threads show a step by step of the creation process.

Expect to spend a good amount of capital since the aluminum bars plus the cost to hire a machinist and the prototyping can get rather spendy pretty quickly.

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**Author:** ![shen703](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/shen703/32/924_2.png) [@shen703](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/shen703)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 7:45pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/making-yoyos/63226/3 "2014-01-22T19:45:14Z")

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> [@sparhawk](#):
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> There’s a couple people on here with experience so it might be best to ask them. There’s also a couple other threads like this but I’m not willing to look them up and you can probly take a look at the up and coming manufacturers since a lot of their threads show a step by step of the creation process.
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> Expect to spend a good amount of capital since the aluminum bars plus the cost to hire a machinist and the prototyping can get rather spendy pretty quickly.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![akamj](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/akamj/32/156752_2.png) [@akamj](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/akamj)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 9:30pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/making-yoyos/63226/4 "2014-01-22T21:30:48Z")

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Really all you need to start is a cad modeling program.  
Money and intelligence is also suggested.

Cad design can be sent to a machine shop. Buy some spacers and pads or make your own. Have some type of colorway in mind, send to a anodizer/painter.

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**Author:** ![Bcmaddog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/bcmaddog/32/1170_2.png) [@Bcmaddog](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Bcmaddog)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 9:45pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/making-yoyos/63226/5 "2014-01-22T21:45:13Z")

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I can paint these yoyos if you make them. Really cheaply to: