@rkalajian you have some explaining to do on that sweet colorway 
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Ha!
Man, id love to get my hands on an old Throw Yo throw
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Being cryptic is unhelpful.
Looks like a defunct UK store: throw-yoyo
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Aha, that looks to be the one! Thank you so much!
P.S. One Drop misspelled retailers’ names like that very often.
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Also, if anyone knows anything ‘YoYoYuan’ then that would be tremendously helpful. It may be a retailer or alternatively some kind of yoyoing event.
Heads up, I have a onedrop ano reference spread sheet I’ve been working on for a few weeks that should be ready to go live shortly. Over 500 entries from the Flickr alone. I’ve also been cataloging the physical museum at the shop in Eugene that has ano examples that are not shown on the Flickr.
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Saw these yesterday at the shop. These were made specifically to mask the catch zone for the MMC so the blast wouldn’t cut strings. Insanely labor intensive process.
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Does it list what yoyos those colours were released for? If not then it might be helpful for at least speculatively naming some colours that I haven’t got a name for. Does it have pictures?
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V1 has pictures of everything but the standard solids. There are a few named solids (Kuntosh) in there. V2 or 3 will have some updates including (hopefully) models for each colorway, release timeline, and who the ano artist was for which version of each. I am still working my way through the museum drawers at the shop and finding examples that don’t exist online. There aren’t a ton, but there are definitely some one offs and just things that didn’t make it to the flickr. I started an instagram for the museum (mentioned above) at @onedropmuseum and will eventually also have a fully searchable spreadsheet for the collection with all the onedrop stuff as well as the rest of the collection of other brands.
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Screw it, we are LIVE! I will make a separate post for this, but for now here is a LINK!
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Does anyone know whether nickel/copper plated One Drops came with a Pyramatte finish or a polished finish? I’ve never owned a non-blasted one brand new so it’s hard for me to tell.
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Early MMC in nickel were blasted. MCMO were pyramatte. So, both.
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Well, obviously blasted ones are blasted lol. Am I right that it would be done similar to anodising where the finish is done before the plating? I know they explicitly did a ‘polished’ nickel plated yoyo once but it doesn’t look much shinier than the other ones to me, which is why I was asking.
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I have never seen any of the nickel ones to be pyramatte, just seem plated/polished.
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I was under the impression my MCMO was pyramatte, I guess it could be patina though.
I just guessed if they weren’t blasted they would be pyramatte, as it’s a much easier and passive way to prepare/clean the metal before it’s treated for anno or plating. I guess polishing could be realatively automated if it happened immediately after cutting while it was still held in the machine.
Would be odd to do any surface finish on a shiny metal! Pyramatte just adds a bunch of scratches essentially, the shiny nickel yoyos dont seem to have that!
Markmont. Classic Magnum Opus (B-Grade) — Markmont. these pictures look like pryamatte to me, what do you think? (hard to communicate tone, I’m truly curious, not trying to be argumentative)
I think those are B-grades because they have some patina.
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