Left to right? is that top to bottom or bottom to top?
Bottom to top.
This is the third revision of the Knick-KNack.
In the changes include a press fitted AL axle that has been partially hand turned. I flattened the ends and tapered the edges to help accommodate a firm press fit.
It’s a glueless, press fitted axle design. This makes it smoother, cleaner and more reliable that a looser glued in design.
To get the highly polished look, I have to sand it beginning with 180g sand paper up to 12000 grit. This alone renders the production yoyo unviable. I will need to looking at using POM instead, which presents different challenges. POM has really low surface energy, meaning, it neither accepts glue or works very well with press fitting. I will have to do some thinking to make the design faster, cheaper and easier to make.
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Ugh but that one is gorgeous I love the see through look so much
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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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