# Waxing the wood axle on a wooden yo-yo?

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**Created:** [December 23, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/waxing-the-wood-axle-on-a-wooden-yo-yo/296549 "2018-12-23T01:06:46Z")
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#### Post date: [December 25, 2018, 12:35am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/waxing-the-wood-axle-on-a-wooden-yo-yo/296549/19 "2018-12-25T00:35:26Z")

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I got another No Jive (black/grey painted finish) so I can test more. I was going to say “man this sleeps WAY less than my Clean Machine with the waxed axle” but then I weighed them

- No Jive: 50g
- Clean Machine: 55g

Pretty sure I was feeling the weight more than anything else. I’ll test using the same exact one since it came with spare axles.

OK! Using the same exact No Jive yo-yo and (cotton) string it came with, here’s my methodology

> 1. Throw 5 hard sleepers to break things in a little
> 2. Throw a very hard forward pass to reverse around the world (forward, over my head, then behind my back, then looping around to my front)
> 3. At the apex of the reverse around the world, when it’s facing me again and has completed one full circle, do a gravity pull
> 4. Repeat steps 2-3 five times.

I did this 5-10 times, granted there is some natural human variability here but I got a feel for it.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/d/3/9/d398ff9237c22501061962f0ada55ce9396eea73.jpeg)

**With the stock config** : the NJ poops out before it can ‘snap’ back to my hand most of the time. I sometimes don’t even get a solid return, where the string can wind all the way back in.

**After using Burt’s Bees on the string loop** : the NJ _always_ reliably returns to my hand, often with a very firm snap, depending on the throw.

So yeah, I’m concluding that the beeswax on the wood axle does work. It’s not a night and day difference, or anything (I mean how much spin are you really gonna get on a wood axle, regardless of how smooth it is), but it _is_ a noticeable difference.

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