My understanding is:
So basically, raw and clear look the same with the difference being one is protected against oxidation and the other isn’t.
I don’t think so. Aren’t raw throws much shinier usually?
Depends on the degree of polish. I have raw throws with various degrees of reflectivity.
The ones you’ve seen, I believe, are clear not silver. The second prototypes were clear. First prototypes were a dark grey.
Well the one shown in Mhoodlum’s photo above looks silver to me, not clear or raw.
Yeah that one is clear.
edit: I’d LOVE if they did these in silver plating, that was such a great finish they did a few times 
We are having production issues with Side Effects at the moment. Our priority always has to be making enough to go in the new Side Effect yoyos that we are selling because without them we can’t sell the yoyos. Once we have enough there, that is when we make more for selling as extras. Over the years there have been times with lots of Side Effects in stock and times like now where there aren’t many available.
We have sorted the machining problems and are trying to run the machine as much as possible to get caught up and start making colors. I apologize for the current shortage.
if it’s clear ano the throws might’ve been beadblasted/treated before anodizing (idk how pyramatte works)
The “clear coat” Tourney looks like a raw yoyo to me. I always thought that “clear” was short for “clear coat”. But I do take Isaac’s point about how a blasted “clear coat” yoyo would look like silver, and a polished “clear coat” yoyo would look like raw, so I guess it really depends on the surface texture of the yoyo.
We always use “clear” to mean anodized without dye.
Makes sense. Do silver yoyos have any dye applied to them to make them “silver”? Or are they simply anodized without dye (i.e., “clear”) but given enough of a blast finish to give it a silvery sheen?
The pyramatte finish is done by vibration tumbling the raw yoyos in pyramide shaped ceramic beads. You can see it in action right here (Summit documentary, 16:26):
It’s a thing of beauty.
Yes, raw yoyos are typically not blasted or tumbled. They are as they came off of the lathe. (Although in the case of pyramatte, OD does that in house before sending out for anodization). Clear anodized aluminum will have the same colour as raw aluminum, but will not oxidize/rust or rub off. Anodization happens by first creating a clear uniform oxide layer and then that layer is dyed to create a coloured finish. If you don’t use the dye, then you have a clear ano.
Often clear and silver and used interchangeably to describe anodizing with no die. As far as I know there isn’t silver dye. You see this more often with clear splash - in the context of the other colors it tends to look silver.
Okay, that’s what I thought, which is why I always associated “clear” with being visually equivalent to raw. But then, if you give the yoyo a blasted surface before applying the clear ano, you get silver. And I suppose you could also have a “raw silver” finish where you apply a beadblast or some kind and don’t anodize it. Yes, technically it is still raw (lacks anodization), but in terms of colorway it is silver.
So to formalize this (I like formal terminology with no ambiguity because I’m an engineer), I’d say we have a quadrant-like descriptive situation: blast vs. polish on one axis and ano vs. no ano on the other axis. This gives us four possibilities: raw, raw silver, clearcoat raw, clearcoat silver.
Can u actually put legos on the yoyos with lego side effects?
Yes, they fit legos!
It’s very fun
Get LEGO Plates
Sand em down some to get a “blasted” finish
Fingerspin every SE One Drop in your collection!!!
@TheThrowingGnome You’re my hero…
Im just gonna leave this here
wait do these also build on LEGOs???
