Looks really great.
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^^Nice work!!!
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Impressive.
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Please keep posting some pictures of yoyos you people have made.
I’m really interested to see them!
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I would if I had one lol
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I’ll sell you one. 
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Woohoo, my first success! Birds eye maple, 57mm x 34mm, 49g, 1/4 in walnut axle. 5th try and it’s finally smooth. Accidentally used poplar then went to purpleheart then two wobbly maples, then this one.
Plays great. Fantastic shoot the moons, I can do figure 8s on it, and it responds well.
I’m using a screw chuck I made and turning each half by hand.
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Woohoo, my first success! Birds eye maple, 57mm x 34mm, 49g, 1/4 in walnut axle. 5th try and it’s finally smooth. Accidentally used poplar then went to purpleheart then two wobbly maples, then this one.
Plays great. Fantastic shoot the moons, I can do figure 8s on it, and it responds well.
I’m using a screw chuck I made and turning each half by hand.
It looks great but doesn’t the string get caught up in the axle?
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Hmm, not sure I follow. The string gets caught up on the axle and response holes when you tug it…
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I’ll buy 1 after Christmas, it needs a panda on it though lol
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That is very nice!
I’d love to get a hold of some 1/4" walnut dowel for axles, but it’s not really available here in Australia. The Australian oak I use is really good, though.
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Looks good. I love maple yoyos. That’s how nature designed them.
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I think the way maple feels and looks is fantastic. So smooth. However, it doesn’t yield yoyos that are heavy enough for my tastes.
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Mmmmm, maple. The weight is right on for traditional butterfly! Here’s the “birds eye view”
I’m going to try a modified shape or smaller purpleheart after my next maple success. Tough stuff. The first one I tried destroyed my screw chuck and so I rebuilt it… out of purpleheart!
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You’ll definitely need a smaller diameter for a purpleheart version of this yoyo. As it is, it would weigh around 65-70g.
The worst thing I have found using purpleheart is how much gummy resun builds up on my tools and dulls the edges. I won’t use it again for a while.
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Loving the maple yoyo you made, Brian. It inspired me to buy some sugar maple myself to try. I made a yoyo from it today and its one of my favourite to date.
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