kadabrium:
shiny looks cheap
You know what they say about opinions!
kadabrium:
shiny looks cheap
Said someone with all the blasted yoyos in his sig.
oh wait a minuteā¦
Gambit:
I think itās some kind of Raven syndrome. Shiny things just look so nice. I know itās not as practical as a blasted throw, but when I see something like this:
http://pre03.deviantart.net/3942/th/pre/f/2015/079/1/c/polished_yoyo_by_nowa-d8mgt17.jpg
I WANT NEED TO HAVE IT.
That being said, you donāt see all that many yoyo companies doing polished yoyos. I think itās a shame actually, I think more companies should start hopping onto that bandwagon.
While I prefer blasted, I always get excited about raw polished yo-yos. I have a bunch of yo-yos, but the only ones openly displayed in my home are my raw polished throws. I agree that thereās something special about those.
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Bina:
This is purely my speculation and might be totally wrong - I think itās partly because of Asia. Here are three points.
Shiny yo-yos looks better on stage and because so many people there uses gloves on stage, lack of blasted surface doesnāt affect them. And kids just follow what their idols do on stage.
In China, it seems people love shiny things. You can see many yo-yos comes with small mirrors or some decorative shiny rings. Their packaging has tone of shiny elements. So shiny surface just goes with it.
Many top Japanese brands sells almost everything with shiny surface. Most Chinese brands were or still are selling everything shiny. Yoyofficer was same from beginning(only Brave had some blasted runs), I had to work hard to convince boss to change to blasted surface, because to me it was obvious that Europeans and Americans strongly prefer blasted surface.
Than of course price and time is factor. For example look on Duncan, I think Metal Racer is their first Chinese model to come with blasted surface since Metropolis. Budget line of C3? MOVE is first one to have blasting. Yoyofficer Pause also comes just shiny, first run of Kilterās was also shiny.
I think that makes a lot of sense. The preference on this board (mostly Americans) does not reflect what is more popular elsewhere, or even outside of the board here in the U.S. That wasnāt the easiest question to answer, but you offered a plausible explanation.