I’m exaggerating for emphasis, but my slightly vibey but acceptable yoyos still play much louder than my dead smooth ones.
As for feel, imo a vibey yoyo has a different vibe to it (vibe as in experience). I am certainly not dropping over $100 for an imprecisely machined yoyo, just like I dont expect a brand new car to have steering wheel vibe at speed. I can deal with both just fine in the future (front end alignment for the car), but new products shouldn’t perform like it has already been used. I appreciate your perspective on vibe, and do agree to an extent (on it not really mattering), but in the case of new yoyos I think as a consumer we should expect companies to properly QC their products. If 8 out of 10 of x yoyo come dead smooth and I get one of the 2 that isn’t, I’m a little grumpy about it. Especially if I can’t tune it out. Once I ding/smash/make it my own, I couldn’t care less about fingernail vibe.
I can definetly respect that. I definetly see your point. I think I’m jus a bit old school haha. There definetly is nothing wrong with expecting perfection, I just dont get too hung up on it
Yeah, I’m not bothered much by small amounts of vibe either, but vibe can impact resale value since there’s no denying the fact that today’s yoyo buyers have much higher expectations when it comes to vibe. I don’t really need 9.5/10 smoothness for myself, but it will surely help if I decide to sell it.
I can’t tell you the amount of times I’ve seen “I have too many yoyos sale!” or “thinning down the herd” as a thread title
All yoyos are so good these days…performance is while preference in design creates minor variation in playfeel. They all serve the same function and are a little different but more or less the same from one another
The new yoyo-of-week hype is dead for me, yoyoing itself? Is not. I’d rather jam on the yo than clog my desire void with more yoyos
Rose gold is the most awful colorway ever. By a long shot. If I never saw another rose gold yoyo for sale again that would be too soon.
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There aren’t nearly enough yellow yoyos. By yellow I mean mid life crisis corvette yellow, not some wimpy not really committing to it yellow, and not that yellow that is really more gold than yellow.
Most rose gold finishes aren’t really rose gold, but rather pastel pink. Rose gold has a very distinct hue (leaning ever so slightly towards orange/copper), which most anos claiming to be rose gold don’t quite hit accurately.
I think the whole made in USA thing is more marketing ploy than anything genuine, even if the makers aren’t doing so intentionally.
If you own a computer, smartphone, tv, any clothing that isn’t made in America, etc… it’s kind of a moot point. If you use any of these things in the process of making or marketing your product…
It’s like throwing a couple buckets of water at a forest fire. There’s no going back at this point. The most we can hope for is more modernized, Democratic, equitable countries with world economic and political influence gradually shifting the terrible conditions that impoverished workers deal with in other countries.
A small percentage of companies keeping their stuff made in (and sourced from) USA and the small number of consumers purchasing everything they own (not just a couple yo-yos and a pair of boots, everything) from these companies is insignificant in comparison to the vast number of consumers who will buy whatever is cheaper.
American manufacturers can not compete with Chinese manufacturers on price. The wage disparity is just too great. That means they have to find some other added value that appeals to customers. Of course, that will never work with customers who are either highly price sensitive (they simply can’t afford it) or who aren’t so price sensitive but don’t see enough value being added.
Is it fair that Chinese companies get to swallow up market share by exploiting a profoundly lower wage standard? That’s a political debate for those who know more about global economics than I do. All I know is that most American companies who try to do their own manufacturing struggle mightily to compete on an unlevel playing field, and I don’t see anyone offering any useful suggestions to them apart from, “Outsource your manufacturing where it’s cheaper.”
That topic was awesome. People are too afraid of disagreement. Real humans can disagree and still like and get along with each other, and have a sense of humor about it!
If I’m reading this right, it sounds like the string is slipping into the bearing seat. This definitely shouldn’t happen on an assembled yoyo. Are you taking the yoyo apart to put the string on, and the string is getting caught up when you are putting yoyo back together?
When I first started modern yoyo, I saw/read/was told that you unwind the string to put it on the yoyo because if you disassemble the yoyo, there is chance the bearing will move and string will slip between bearing and yoyo.
well i use concave bearings but i have one flat that came in my Anthelion i always unwind the string to put it on and i always have a concave in my Anthelion so i had to disassemble it to put in the flat bearing but now i only use concave
while preference in design creates minor variation in playfeel. They all serve the same function and are a little different but more or less the same from one another
