Excellently. Super smooth feel and response.
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Oooh
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How did you drill out the response holes?
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You don’t. The endgrain on the inside of the gap is enough to provide good response.
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Interesting how that is enough to provide good response. Must have been tricky to get the gap just right.
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Yeah, it’s a little tricky.
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Do you just use a thin parting tool to nug down the gap to the right depth and width? I haven’t tried a single piece one yet.
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Yes, I used 1/16" parting tool. I use a 1/8" to get the taper, too.
I have never found a tutorial on how to make a true one piece yoyo. I just had to try it for myself.
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I’m currently testing a new method to provide good response in any of my wooden fixed axles without drilling holes.
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If you try one, make sure you use a blank in spindle orientation, not cross grain.
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Made a maple Harbinger and a European beech Ballsy.
These have a new tweaked response I’ve been working in to further improve reliability. It’s working really well.
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Can you boomerang it?
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Yes. Can’t do anything with it after that though lol.
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Going to refurbish an old yoyo I made before Spinworthy days. My yoyos had a myriad of problems back then and this one exhibits them all.
Problems:
- Made using a router instead of a lathe. Halves have marks on the rims from compression from the router bit bearing caused by pushing the halves too hard into it.
- Router speed and/or feed rate too low causing burn marks.
- Entire yoyo sanded with a sandpaper of a low grit.
- Poorly fitted axle
- Axle made of a wood that is too soft
- Axle glued in using too much glue, causing squeeze-out into the gap of the yoyo.
- Axle glued with a poor grade of PVA
- Axle is elliptical
- Axle is poorly cut
- Centre highlight is off centre
- Sequins in the centre highlight stacked unevenly and too high.
- Centre highlight not polished with a fine enough grade of micromesh.
I’ll post another picture of it after I’ve fixed it up.
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Just browsed the whole thread, and this is some truly remarkable stuff.
Well done!
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Not wood, but I’m about to turn some Survivalists for a local plastics engineering place. I wanted a quote to buy some plastic, but instead they said that if I make them 4 Survivalists, I can have some for free! Nice people!
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What do you do if you need a tool that isn’t available? You make it! I made this tiny 1/4" bedan to level out and clean up the recesses where the guts and caps sit in my unresponsives. It’ll do nicely.
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