Eric did his Organic dye treatment on 4 pairs of Freehand halves and sent them to me.
I made up 3 of them: one back to Eric… one to Alan Gray… and one to Steve Brown. I never machined the 4th for myself. About 20 something years later, I still have the last pair of halves. Not sure who this particular one was sent to?
Not sure why the color didn’t come out in this pic? I will have to hunt down the color correct one. It was quite the ‘looker’….
I don’t really play these… I just kind of stare at him once in a while. I used to think they looked amazing when they came out. And you know what I still think they look amazing.
Having been a Custom car, Exotic car and Harley cycle Painter for over a few decades, I can really appreciate the beauty of these Functional Art pieces.
One thing I found not just in yo-yo’s, but just about anything is that some things look good farther away and the closer you look the uglier they get
Some things look good close up, but as you step back from them, they just look kind of blurry and uneventful.
These cold fusions look good from across the road and the closer you get the better they look. And I can’t speak for everyone made and sold. But these two particular ones that I have… The fit and finish and beauty is like nothing else I have.
I’ve had several over the years way back when they came out in different colors. But for some reason, people wanted the colors I had and didn’t want the orange ones. So I ended up with a standard and a GT in the matching orange black color ways and I couldn’t be happier… Since orange is pretty much my favorite color.
So many years ago, I had to snap fish image account online. They used to send me an email every year telling me that if I bought something out of their store, they would allow me to have photo storage for the next year. So each year I would buy something like a T-shirt or a coffee mug or whatever that had some digital image on it.
Obviously, after a few years, I started accumulating stuff… Especially the coffee mugs, which I don’t really use so I just put them in a dresser drawer in the bottom right corner.
Very seldom do I go in that drawer for whatever reason I couldn’t tell you.
So last night, I decided to see exactly what inventory I had a boxed coffee mugs? I move a sweatshirt that I bought at the Long Beach Grand Prix a long, long time ago. And underneath the sweatshirt in the right front corner of the lower right drawer, I see a little group of yo-yos that just made me laugh. The dates on a few of the yo-yos don’t necessarily identify that they’ve been there for 20 years. But that being said they’ve been there For a long period of time, lol
A Matador… A brand new tarnished minimal… A carbon fiber finished dark magic… An old wouldn’t even yo-yo from worlds… Obviously a freehand 21 years old… And Yuki Spencer 401 blue powder coated and pretty rare I think never thrown original string just took it out of the box for the first time.
I hope The images take some of you guys way back in the Time Machine.
