# The mystery of wooden fixed axle response

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**Created:** [January 14, 2019, 6:33am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/the-mystery-of-wooden-fixed-axle-response/297507 "2019-01-14T06:33:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 10:11am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/the-mystery-of-wooden-fixed-axle-response/297507/25 "2019-05-28T10:11:22Z")

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Definitely liking the starburst cuts. I went over it again with the knife to make them a tad deeper.

 ![IMG_8163](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/e/5/e/e5e09f9360366e5c2c0d524b28f1cbaea70ec60f.jpeg)

Note that after you make the second round of cuts, use a beater string as depending on how the cuts go, it may wear through the string as it flattens the wood back out. I didn’t have this effect on the first round of cuts, but get a beater string ready if you go this route to break it in a bit.

I do feel this stabilized the response, made it much more consistent. You can tell there’s more friction because running your finger around the wood _outside_ the cuts encounters almost no resistance, it’s completely smooth, whereas if you do the same thing _inside_ the cuts, you feel those regular bumps and it definitely interrupts the smoothness that’d otherwise be there.

This is an inset starburst so it’s not like a “real” starburst which pokes out, not in. But then the holes drilled in other wood yo-yos are similarly inward and they seem to work so…

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/2/8/1/2811a0a59bc57900f510568d31c0e897e8342707.jpeg)

I’d also _definitely_ not do this on a TK that you ever planned to flip around in 3-in-1 style or wanted to keep pristine for later – Turbo Disc stickers would be the way to go there versus a permanent mod like this. As I mentioned, this one has engravings on one side so it can’t really be flipped anyway.

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