Dang Mo! Well luckily this one didn’t come at a high cost to me. It was in the bottom of a mystery tub with a bunch of other random cool yo-yos. Now I’m on a mission to find out who made this one! Thanks for the input!
Well I’ll be hornswaggled! Sorry for the miscall, Mo, but I definitely think this is a conceptual homage, e.g. the creator was following your lead. Now that I think about it, could this be a John Rollins mod? And did his stuff predate yours?