I noticed that a lot of your nylon and polyester strings were a bit too slippery for the cork to reliably respond with super clean bearings, yeah. Cotton and other string materials that otherwise fray or loosen a bit over time seem to work best. I believe the one that I enjoyed the most and that I’ve had on the V1 for quite a while is your Elixir string.
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Just throw a Nectar on there and be done with it!
Also, Sir Baron Radness von Throwington Esquire “LOVES” making them.
It might be fun to line this up with a Bee, Bee GT, OG Confusion, and whatever else I can find in my stash.
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Strung up a Nectar and it plays beautifully. I think the Solvent would have been fine eventually once it broke in a bit.
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Yes almost as much as he loves to make rope
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I’ve got two PiF units, actually! @rkalajian just got the one, and I’ve still got the other here with me. Still need to make a post about it and figure out how to organize all that.
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I printed some mufflers from TPU 
they weigh 8 grams so they add a bit of weight but make it significantly quieter. Bearing noise is tolerable even with the stock noisier bearing and with the blank it’s dead silent. The walls are 0.8 mm so I think most of the weight is from the bottom so I might try to thin it out a little and reduce the weight.
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That’s just a Queen Bee in her hive now 
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I wonder if you removed the center and treated them as rims if it would still muffle the sound but further reduce weight.
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Ooh, could print them with a comb pattern ala @MinerJ s honeycomb
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I have a set of .4 mm thick in all direction versions printing at the moment. Theoretically will be under 4 grams but I’ll have to see when they are done.
I might try a rim only version or with a hole of some kind or pattern too and see if it still muffles for science.
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I only ask about the rim only because theoretically the ti sound comes from reverb in the cup and muffling the rims should kill the sound but idk. I don’t have access to my printer for a bit so I can’t test things it’s driving me mad
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4g will put it back in the realm of the two V2.0 units I sent to nationals. They were right around 63.5g
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The lighter pair came in at 3.9 grams. They have similar noise reduction qualities but look a little jankier as we are teetering on the precipice of what 3d printing flexible materials can do.
Splitting the difference with .6 mm walls and a rim only design next. I’ll make a comparison video for fun when it’s all done
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Meanwhile me, my wife, and my two autistic children when I throw it in a completely different room than them. I’m afraid I could not do your job.
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Honestly it’s not that bad and it’s mostly the bearing but meh.
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I’ve had this happen on yo-yos I printed when the OD on the bearing seat is a little too wide.
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Downside of needing the spokes for the brake pad is that the spokes themselves are the relief barrier. This is the first time it’s happened in a year of daily throwing
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