The first non G-squared swirl?

You can actually try putting a white board marker against a spinning yoyo and that creates a topyo-swirl-ish kinda look. You can just draw on yoyos to modify colors :joy:

Swirls
Splashes
Fades
Etc.

You can even put a marker against the rims so that the yoyo would look like a bimetal :joy::joy:

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Square Wheels was the first thing that came to my mind too, and the Rebel Macrocosm, which was a really wild thing with the unicorn skull and everything…
m1e m2e m3e

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That looks remarkably the same as the famous raincorn swirl.

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This antique Fly Back had a pretty crazy swirl because you know, there’s nothing new under the sun…fly%20back%201 fly%20back%202

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Sort of but it is interesting the swirl is only on the inner side of the cups…

I would suggest that the praise for swirls really belongs to the anodisers. It is evidently not as easy as making a brush stroke.

The anodiser who did the previous G2 swirls was an incredible ano artist.

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Absolutely. But but constructive feedback to improve a technique specific for yo-yos and colorway choices play a role in a nice final project.

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Well, here they are

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ooh that blue/purple rim dip looks nice!

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What are some examples of yoyos YopYo copied?

I thought he was talking about color ways.

The silver one is also very interesting. They must have masked off a galaxy because that black “stripe” isn’t just dark… it’s full galaxy in the stripe bits!

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LOLWUT

Par Avion coming in swirls?!

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top left is a very… interesting color combination

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I can’t say either of those is doing much for me as far as color combinations, either… the Selenes were more to my taste.

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I dig the 2 on the right

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Yeah apparently GBA offered it to them because Jake doesn’t use GBA anymore (from what I understand - could be wrong)

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This one was even earlier. Posted to Flicker in January of 2010 so it was done in 2009. If you go to the link you’ll see “For Dave”. That’s me. I asked Justin (Vendetta to anodize this for me).

https://www.flickr.com/photos/vendetta7/4255537854/in/album-72157623162975390/

Still have it in my collection and treasure it.

Not sure if Justin invented this, but I haven’t seen anything that predates this yet.

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None of these examples, modern or 8+ years old, have matched G2 in their swirl prime though:

That is just :star_struck:

The recent G2 swirls haven’t been as good as the classics from 2016-2017 IMO.

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