So after looking for a long time, I got this undercut yoyo. I really enjoyed its aesthetics and such but recently, I had a string break on me, and it got several (luckily minor pieces of damage). Normally I wouldn’t really care, but this isn’t a common yoyo.
My question in this: is it possible to polish this out? I was thinking that maybe I could polish the damage out, then get the yoyo re-annodized.
Is there someone here that has experience with this? What do you think?
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Grendel
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I would just live with it and use it as a memory device to never do that again. Plus if your throws don’t have ding’s then your not trying hard enough. Jmtc.
Yeah I can understand that. But I do like to try and keep my yoyos undamaged. My first high performance yoyo is still undamaged, because I’ve mainly used it over carpet. And I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve put in on it. I learned my first speed, horizontal, slacks and tech all on that one yoyo over 5 years ago. Still no dings.
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Grendel
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All the more reason to have at least one dinged throw. Everyone’s got one or two or several. I hadn’t even owned my first cold fusion 24 hours and I dinged it good and deep. A three gouge ding. Only looks ugly didn’t affect play what so ever. Good luck to you however you proceed.
Thank you man! Oof, I’m sorry about your cold fusion.
Yeah, I have some yoyos that I take out over concrete and don’t really care about the damage, just about there performance. But some, I like to keep for the aesthetics, which is why I was hoping to polish out the damage on this one.
Those marks won’t polish out, neither will a light sanding work. The ding on the rim could be fixed fairly well with a black magic marker. Or a small dob of back paint if it is more like a chip. The mark in the white section looks like it chipped out a bit. A dab of off white model paint may do the trick. I wouldn’t go so far as a total refinish.
I took some birch wood Casey’s aluminum black and put it on the nicks.
It doesn’t remove them, just turns the aluminum black, and makes them harder to see!