so you are telling that itās about the weight distribution and not the material which is responsible for the yo-yo to play.
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Absolutely yes. Do you want a heavier material? You can use iron or stainless steel, why use a material heavier than aluminum whose mechanical characteristics you donāt need?
Of course, if you like titanium, how it plays, how it sounds, the feeling that gives you, then obviously you are free to use titanium.
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Correct me if Iām wrong but I believe yo-yo companies use titanium because it allows them to construct very thin walls (0.5 mm, etc.). This, in turn, (namely, removing weight from where itās not needed) allows the manufacturers to put more weight exactly where they want in order to achieve the results they seek, such as more rim weight for stability. I believe thatās the same reason 7068 aluminum is used in yo-yo manufacturing as well. Or at least, the reason itās claimed to be used.
Now, if you were modding a yo-yo, constructing it entirely out of titanium parts might not be needed. But with a regular one, that may not be the case.
Regarding play, I canāt say I own an aluminum or bimetal thatās better than some of my best titaniums. But I canāt say that those same titaniums are better than my best bimetals either. Perhaps, there is a difference, but that difference is not easily noticeable. The only thing Iāve noticed is a difference in spin time. And, yes, you can certainly argue that spin time is an aspect of performance, and that it makes a yo-yo better. But bimetals and even metals spin for such a long time these days, you donāt really need much more. As for why professionals donāt use them, I too, as YoyoGeezer and others have stated, believe itās more profitable to promote cheaper yo-yos that a much larger percentage of people can afford.
PS. I wrote all of this just to say, all thatās missing from my life is a B!ST Stradivari. If thatās not the single most beautiful yo-yo ever created, I donāt know what is.
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Damn, itās so hard to explain!
yoyos are just weight distribution, I hard work on that years ago.
There are 2 kind of balance, the rotation one and the side one.
Take this yoyo:
In the speaker side thereās a heavy magnet, but itās weight is where it DOES NOT have to be.
So you have to re-balance it, but how?
We got a cup with a heavy cup and a light one.
Many yoyo builder (except Xela from X3 and a few more) do not think about the fact weights in different places act in different way.
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What is the yo-yo in your profile pic?and do you make and own a yo-yo store?
If any yo-yo ever had a chance of looking better than your 2009 Stradivari, it would be your 2019 Stradivari. But, in my eyes at least, the old version is still the king, just barely beating the newer model. Admittedly, the 2019 version is still the second most beautiful yo-yo Iāve ever laid eyes on. Maybe Iām just old-fashioned. Who knows? In any case, it is difficult to compare two yo-yos that look so darn good. In both cases, all I can say is this: itās simply art at its finest.
Also, Iāve never played or even touched either of the two. So, Iām strictly comparing them in terms of overall beauty.
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2019? Am I hearing a run of yoyos is being produced?
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It really depends on the yoyo. I have a number of metal yoyosāincluding bimetalsāthat donāt spin as long as Iād like, while at the same time I have hybrids that have all the spin time I could reasonably expect from a contemporary yoyo design.
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I absolutely agree. Thatās exactly what I was trying to say. Similarly, there are titaniums that donāt spin as long as my bimetal or even metal yo-yos. Itās all about the design. Take the YYF Horizon, for instance, it offers me all the spin time I need, and itās a very inexpensive yo-yo.
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The Horzion has amazing spin time. An amazing first budget metal imo.
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I have to agree, @MrBist is blowing my mind. Weāre all in here posting random blah blah blah words and heās posting pictures of these incredible one of a kind hand made machined yo-yos that he personally created. Itās quite the ā¦ uh, contrast!
That said I am not sure I understand the concern with titaniumā¦ it seems to me that titanium gives you finer control than aluminum over where you want the weight to go in a yo-yo. The only downside, and it is a BIG one, is the 10x increase in cost and machining that titanium requires over aluminum.
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I think what @MrBist is saying is that he can make two yoyos play very near the same regardless of the material by putting weight in the right places. I believe he probably can. The problem is there arenāt a lot of other people with his level of expertise.
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I also suspect that he āputs weight in the right placesā using laborious manual methods that canāt easily be automated or produced simply by the machining process. In order for yoyos to be both performant(*) and affordable, design and manufacturing compromises have to be made.
(*) performant appears in the Cambridge Advanced Learnerās Dictionary & Thesaurus Ā© Cambridge University Press. Deal with it, bātches! 
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Itās still a made up word! I hope you find this informationā¦ informant.
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Well of course itās a made up word. All words are made up. Duh! 
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That sentence was highly informant.
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Grammar fail. Informant is a noun.
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English grammar is as intuitive as the imperial system
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Wait what? Thats a speaker in there? Duuuuuude! <3 <3 <3
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