I can definitely fill you guys in a little bit on that orange yo-yo with the viper hubs.
That is not one of my custom mod yo-yos.
First of all, I’ve never glued any plastic rings like that into the cup area. And if I ever did, the glue would be so precise, you wouldn’t even notice it.
Second of all when I used viper hubs on a good number of mods many many years ago, I either left them dead stock ano/clear or I stripped the Ano and polished the viper halves to pretty much a mirror finish.
Something else I noticed. That juicy looking orange color. I don’t even know how that was achieved? It almost looks like paint. And if there was an orange plastic yo-yo that looked like that I missed that somehow. And I’m staring at those halves, and I honestly don’t even know what yo-yo they’re from?
I understand that since I’m a senior citizen now I may skip a beat now and then when it comes to everything I should remember, lol
But I’m normally sharp as a razor in my recall is just about a sharp. But even if I had amnesia, I usually know my work when I see it. And there’s nothing about that yo-yo that looks like my work. I’m not saying it’s bad work. I will say that’s a little rough. It just doesn’t have the detail that I was used to spending the time to get.
It certainly wouldn’t be the first time of a case of mistaken identity. Over the years I’ve had several people come up to me nationals contests and show me a yo-yo and tell, hey Doc, II bought one of your old mods. And I look at it and I tell him that’s a nice yo-yo but I didn’t do it.
Nobody tried to bootleg any of my mods that I know of. And by bootleg, I mean, make something that looks almost like one of my mods, and then sell it for more than it’s worth. I personally have never considered any of my mods to be worth anymore than what it took me to put them together. If anybody’s known me for a while, they’ll know that and all the years I customized yo-yos, I never put a yo-yo up for sale. I’ve never had any plan to try to do custom stuff and turn it into money. Modding yo-yos was always a hobby, and never an occupation.
So that orange yo-yo is pretty cool and everything but I certainly didn’t do it. Sorry about that.
but other than that it was awesome catching up with someone I had talked to for 15 years at that point.
