# Polished vs Anodized

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**Category:** Looking for Help/Recommendation\
**Created:** [June 15, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polished-vs-anodized/15585 "2010-06-15T00:30:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![mista8eight8](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/mista8eight8/32/559_2.png) [@mista8eight8](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mista8eight8)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polished-vs-anodized/15585/1 "2010-06-15T00:30:17Z")

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What would be better in the long run? A polished or an anodized yoyo?

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**Author:** ![justink1025](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@justink1025](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/justink1025)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 4:48am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polished-vs-anodized/15585/2 "2010-06-15T04:48:57Z")

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Go with anodized.  
I do not know if you meant that you want to get a raw yoyo or anodized yoyo OR get a yoyo custom anodized or polish it but either way I would go with anodize.

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**Author:** ![Ariq\_PGM\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19adc/32.png) [@Ariq\_PGM\_2](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Ariq_PGM_2)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 11:42am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polished-vs-anodized/15585/3 "2010-06-16T11:42:22Z")

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Polished yoyos make scruffs and dings less noticable

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**Author:** ![quinton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/quinton/32/376_2.png) [@quinton](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/quinton)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polished-vs-anodized/15585/4 "2010-06-16T15:33:57Z")

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Polish.

If you want a custom anno job, go for it, but if it’s just something to play around with, polish.

You can polish your own yoyos at home and can constantly re-do the job. This gives a certain advantage to you, because you won’t have noticable dings and dents, and if you do scuff up a throw that’s been polished, you can just do a touch up sand job.

Anno takes alot of knowledge and time and money, you have to send it to guys to get annoed, most of them do really good work though. Also, annodization is a flawed process, your yoyo can come out with flaws in the anno and whatnot. Just trust me, polish is the way to go.

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**Author:** ![sa11297](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@sa11297](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/sa11297)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polished-vs-anodized/15585/5 "2010-06-16T19:40:21Z")

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whats the difference? ???

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**Author:** ![Belegnole](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/belegnole/32/570_2.png) [@Belegnole](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Belegnole)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 4:03am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polished-vs-anodized/15585/6 "2010-06-18T04:03:59Z")

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I have a 20 year old polished yoyo that has bounced down sidewalks, streets stairs etc. Every time it has gotten to roughed up I just polish it again. New bearing new, axle in one case and a polish then it looked and played just like new. If it had been anodized when new it wouldn’t look as good now. However, if your collecting or just like the ano better…go for it.