They all have SS rings though, making them a yoyo using 2 materials
The past few days, my yoyo making time has been used for experimenting with polishing to hopefully reduce scratch marks as well time it takes to get a brilliant shine.
The final product is looking good so far, but time has not been reduced.
I’m testing out mounting various buffing wheels to my lathe tinachieve this.
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Wow, that looks like glass. Absolutely stunning work.
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Thanks mate. Yeah, I can get it looking pretty good, but it’s still taking way too long. This model will never see a run unless I can cut this down significantly.
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I fully understand that. I’m glad that, as a craftsman you remember that your time has value. Hopefully you will keep evolving your techniques to bring your innovations to the public!
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I’m with @French on this. You can do it @Glenacius_K, you do killer work, you’ll figure it out.
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I’ve included more wet sanding and finish with 3 different buffers with different compounds. The surface is much more consistent now,. There are no circular scratches. This process is a little faster than using micromesh like I used on the other Knick-KNack prototypes.
It also has a press fitted aluminium axle. Seems to be working great, so I’ll stick with that. Tomorrow, I will experiment with dyeing.
I’m getting very close to finalising the design as much as I can before sending it to Kyle. I’ve already send him one with the same approximate specs out of polyester, just to see if he thinks I’m on to a good thing. I’ll see what he thinks if that one first, then add I any suggestions he might have.
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Those are gorgeous
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I’m seriously digging the lighting in the first photo. Dope yoyo!
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Super fun too. I have played nothing else since I started making them.
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I went to check up on this thread and my eyes just popped right outta my head. That sure is beautiful.
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That’s awesome! Looks like glass.
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I have a micro lathe and would like to turn a pom or wooden fixie. It’s only a Peatol lathe but a yo-yo is well within operating tolerances.
Do you make the tooling for each shape yo-yo to keep them consistently the same shape… Or are you some kind of hand turning wizard and it’s eyed up on the turn? (Or cnc’d 
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Love the yo-yos your popping out. Incredibly beautiful stuff.
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This one is me, although, I wouldn’t put it quite like that.
I don’t make jigs and no CNC is used.
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Really impressive, I’ll go wood first due to an abundance as a few practice goes.
Very inspiring stuff @Glenacius_K. Ty 
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Definitely go with wood first. Plastic is an entirely different animal. It’s nothing at all like turning wood.
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I made a POM KnKN today to see if the press fitting would work well with the material. It does. It also opens up dyeing options (unlike polycarbonate).
Making this one helped me to dial in my axle length for press fits. You can see on this one that I made the axle about 1.5mm too long and so when I assembled it using my arbor press, the axle went in too far causing a bulge in the face of one half.
The only problem with using POM is it’s difficulty to finish nicely. It always ends up looking pretty scratched up with use.
I was also hpping that it would take less time to finish, but it didn’t.
I will keep exploring using POM for the model because it is cheaper and more readily available in rod form than polycarbonate.
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I’ll buy it
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