Rev-G yo-yo is pretty.
It is also Worthless.
I guess you could it is pretty Worthless.
I remember the first time I saw one. Big Bill put one in the glass display case at Goldenapple Comics. That was a long time ago.
At first glance it looked Amazing. Carbon fiber and anodized aluminum body had great visual impact.
I didn’t really pay much attention to the large diameter or the very small gap or just the general shape/weight/weight distribution. Or of the small bearing or wimpy tiny axle/horrible ready to strip threads on body.
I was just enamored with the candy like look of it.
It may only be a rumor, but at the time I was a yo-yo modding machine. I was constantly doing something to yo-yos ‘just to see what I could do to make them better than they were in stock form?
I thought they might be ‘on to something’. I was completely wrong. They should have just stuck to flying kites.
To this day, it remains one of a few yo-yos that I feel I could not/can not do anything in the way of yo-yo modding, to improve.
I was already machining weight rings for yo-yos well over 20 years ago. In my dreams, if I could’ve only talk to those people when they were in the design stages of that yo-yo. I would’ve had no problem, telling them to stay with the carbon fiber theme. And then I would’ve told him to consider this. Decrees the diameter of the yo-yo. Increase the width of the yo-yo. Forget the small rubber O-rings on the rims. Insert some rim weight rings under the rims of the flared out halves. Step up the bearing size to open the gap. Put some kind of actual response system, which the Rev-G has none into the yo-yo to improve its functionality.
Increase the width of the actual rim surface to create a better footprint to allow a more comfortable catch. On a stock Rev-G, a hard come back is very Unfun to catch and has one of the weirdest feelings of any yo-yo I’ve ever thrown. It’s not painful necessarily, it just feels like crap when I smack you in the hand. The diameter is so big that it rolls off the hand funny. And you have to throw it down in a forward pitch angle because it has a tendency to kick back and want to go between your ankles, lol. Honestly, it’s kind of a challenge in itself to just get it down to the end of the string. And once you successfully get it down the end the string, you don’t have much time to do anything.
To this day, I still like the look of it. But if I was asked to grade it, like it was a high school project in a science class, I would give it a A for effort and an F for results.
The guys that designed it may have been engineers for all I know. But when they built the Rev- G., they basically build a bridge to nowhere.
A few years before a big bill passed away, he was going through the case and golden apple, and I was standing on the other side of the counter, talking to him. He reached down and pulled out a Rev-G. He handed it over the counter to me. He said Mo, I want to give you this yo-yo. I’d be embarrassed to sell it to you. You were one of the only people I know that may possibly be able to figure out how to turn this nightmare into something functional. But then again, I feel this may be beyond your modding abilities. Please take the challenge because this yo-yo is basically stinking up the place. It looks pretty on display, but I have this constant fear that eventually somebody will want to buy it and I’ll feel guilty if I actually sold it to them. I feel better just giving it away for free, and then he laughed and said good luck. Tell me if you can hot rod it successfully. But you’re not obligated to tell me if you fail miserably.
I still have that yo-yo. Once a while, I take it out and stare at it and smile and think I wonder if there is something I could do to the sucker? Then I laugh and put it away.
Thee end😎
PS… well, almost the end>. Summation as follows:
- Diameter too large… 2. Width to narrow. 3. Extremely poor weight distribution. 4. Tiny gap/tiny bearing/no response system. 5. Uncomfortable shape. 6. Very unusual feel on the throwdown and on the catch. 7. Soft aluminum female threads in halves combined with tiny find threaded axle was a perfect storm for the easiest yo-yo to strip that I’ve ever touched.
One Drop Cascade used for contrast.
Ok, I’m done