I haven’t been too interested in their most recent drops, if I’m completely honest. But their tried and true models are lit 
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About a month and a half ago, maybe more, I bought a Recess First Base (orange) and I could not get the small bearing out so I shelved it. Last week I tried again to get the bearing out and it popped right out. I put in the large c and I really, really like it A LOT! It’s really smooth and weighted nicely and totally fun!
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Not sure if this is an unpopular opinion but
OD used to me at the forefront of American designing for the best performing yoyos before the bimetal craze hit. Nowadays they’re mainly releasing “fun” releases with very few exceptions like the VTWO. Although their QC is still high as ever they should hop onto the bimetal train(heck they should have 5 years ago) or at least release more high performing competition monster monometals.
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I know what you mean…it’s like when everyone loves some super-popular Top 40 musician like Ed Sheeran…he just makes me wanna puke when I hear him…and the only person I’ve met that can’t stand him is my brother.
Edit: Bad metaphor. No one said One Drop makes people want to puke. I just meant there’s a kind of subtle pressure to like and want what’s really popular.
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Met someone for BST today. He was carrying a CLYW Blizzard and was telling me that once he tried a bimetal there was no going back for him lol.
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All in a person’s preference.
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I’m not a bimetal historian so I can’t recall if anyone has ever done a 100% made in the USA bimetal, but if they have, I don’t think it was recent. The overseas competition in the bimetal market can’t be touched by American manufacturing when it comes to price, unfortunately for OD. That’s a shame because I’d love to see what OD could do
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Death robot.just saying. @Rosenberg
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I mean, I think they are interesting, but kind of overrated is all. My personal play style doesn’t really depend on the performance boost that a bi metal can provide. I’m not a total snob about it, I’d play with one. To be fair, I have one, and I like it, but I don’t ever feel lead to actively acquire them
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I think I can translate this into an unpopular yoyo opinion: There are actually terrible yoyos out there
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Caveat: but they are exceedingly rare, particularly compared to 10 years ago.
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It was actually the perfect metaphor. I read the puking as colorful exaggeration. But exactly what I’m talking about.
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Agreed
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I don’t really own any terrible yoyos just yoyos I am not good enough to play really well at this time. Like the $1.00 yoyos I’ve purchased and the One and WHiP.
I know these cheap yoyos are not made with any quality at all but watching these people rock $1.00 yoyos - I am amazed. If it was not revealed that the yoyos cost $1.00 I would think they were expensive.
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The ONE is a terrible yoyo. Just because a pro can make it look good doesn’t mean it is
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Exactly. It reminds me of a YouTube video out there of Joe Satriani playing Satch Boogie on a crappy Strat copy, and he manages to make it look easy (improvising string bends where he could because it didn’t have a trem bar). But the guitar was still a piece of garbage (as electric guitars go), and at the end of the video, he commented, “That was harder than I expected.”
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Yeah making an American made bimetal is definitely very expensive compared to overseas but if anyone can make one somewhat affordable compared to other bimetals it’s definitely OD.
The 2Sick Knight was American made and it sold for $155. OD could probably sell one for $140, not too much more than what UNPRLD sell theirs for. I think the issue is they want to make their first one perfect so a lot of prototypes = greater price.
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Imagine Jim Hendrix on a $99 guitar. Everyone would want one of those.
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The One takes dead-on accuracy…and that gap. I am better with it responsive than un. For responsive I put in slim pads and thin lube. That makes it easy and kinda fun but…
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Oh… I liked that yoyo.
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