From One Drop: The story of this design is exactly what you might think. David wanted fat rims. Really really really fat rims. Also a slightly concave catch zone and Side Effects. The Machinist isn’t a huge fan of concave catch zones, but agreed on the general feature set. He then knocked the design out of the park!
Note: One color, man o war, didn’t make it into the group shot… Or any photos. I added One Drop’s picture to the page so you can see it. I’ll get it added on Monday - 18 yo-yos is like 8 too many to keep track of for an individual release…
Head colds mess you up. This week I spent 10 minutes referring to a customer who called me in 3rd person because I didn’t recognize her voice or phone number. I thought she was from the company’s purchasing group.
Thankfully the customer was a really good sport about it.
I see it as more of a W shape (after all, W is for “wings”). Granted, instead of a V with wings, it is a U with wings. But it has big wide (albeit horizontal) wings just the same. In fact, I would say that it is the wings which absolutely dominate the yoyo’s design/shape, making W the most apropos designation.