Appreciate that man! That means a lot 
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mad luv for my bruv
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is that a Ceramic yoyo?
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Hi, yes it is a The Shield of Jazz-yo, the first yoyo produced by a Chinese manufacturer, made of ergal (7075), with titanium axle, painted with ceramic powder baked in the oven and full-ceramic bearing as standard.
It was one of the most desired yoyos of that time (120 pieces in total sold exclusively by Yoyonation) but which was also immediately marked forever by very negative reviews as many specimens presented various problems, more or less solvable.
here you can see it whit its beautiful box
and disassembled here (I’m re siliconeing it now)
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Cool yoyo. What do you think about ceramic bearings?
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Yes but mines made out of magnesium… IN the United States…
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I have one here and another on the Ti-Vayder, honestly I would say that they do not add anything, indeed in addition to turning a little slow, they can be quite problematic … they are not easily cleaned because of the cage made of a rubbery plastic and they are quite fragile, if it falls to the ground this can be the result
ceramic bearings, in reality, were created to work in environments with the presence of electromagnetic fields, where metal bearings would be influenced / slowed down by the magnetism present … therefore you understand that, in the context of yoyo … they are not so essential.
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I hear they sound great in a Ti yoyo though. 
Never tried a ceramic bearing so can’t say I speak from experience though
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I on magnesium … I have my ideas … and, I don’t think you would like them 
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the metal bearing with ceramic balls that I have on the Ti-Walker works much better than the full-ceramic that I put on the Ti-Vayder
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Looks like an oxy axle system. Also how would you rate the play of this one?
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that’s awesome!
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well , the axle system is certainly “very inspired” (let’s say so 
) by that of the Oxygene … it is less sophisticated as it is not made to have a variable gap (here the O-rings are only used to hold the bearing in place and the axle screws directly into the aluminum, not into a brass seat.
How do I rate it? For my personal experience with this specimen I can only evaluate it well, it plays satisfactorily, it is quite stable and fast, with an adequate weight, clearly we are talking about a yoyo of 2007-2008.
I can however understand the negative comments or comments he received at the time … the only thing to object is that they arrived immediately, without the time to understand if those problems could be (at least in part) solved … Probably, the disappointment it was important , as the hype was very high while it was being developed / created.
The main problems were:
- more or less serious vibrations caused by the cooking process of the ceramic coating
- rough ceramic finish that cut the strings after a few launches
- bad quality full-ceramic bearing
I bought mine second-hand in 2012, both for the curiosity to touch it (I still remember the photos of Yoyonation where it seemed made of stone) and to see if everything I had read about him was true.
This is what I can tell you about mine in relation to those problems.
- Vibrations, clearly this is an unsolvable problem … let’s say that I was lucky, this specimen has a minimal vibration, visible only on the nail test.
- Rough ceramic finish, true, the yoyo could break the strings in 3-4 throws … terrible! This is a big problem! you are always there with the terror that the yoyo will crash on the ground at any time.
Problem solved by “polishing” with lathe the inside of the catch zone with a denim cloth.
As you can see from the photo of the disassembled yoyo, aesthetically nothing is seen but now it no longer ruins the strings and you can play serenely. - Bad quality of the bearing (which was a flat as standard) … not being the first owner I can’t say how it was from new, but when it became mine, I can say it was really bad, I tried to clean it with some simple compressed air and the spheres jump upall away
…
Fixed with a new full-ceramic kk.
So, in conclusion, it need a little luck … certainly, for many buyers and collectors who have been waiting for it for months, the disappointment was great (it was a high-end product at that time, no other yoyo could boast such characteristics and it can also be seen from the box, with the extract of a tea box, internally inner covered with black velvet and with magnetic closure) but perhaps it has received too peremptory and too immediate criticisms that it did not deserve entirely and that they have inevitably made to forget it
while I was searching I found this (only this … 
)
http://www.yoyoskills.com/?p=1143
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I love this throw so much for 5a!
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I feel like I need tips on how to make my pictures look like this. Are you just using a light box or what is it?
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Thank you for the kind words. I’m using a 25” light box, a hot shoe flash w/softbox, and a 100mm f2.8 macro lens on a full frame camera body sitting on a tripod. The yoyos are on a yoga brick and 2 small bricks of styrofoam. On top of the styrofoam, is an old upholstery fabric that I had lying around.
After taking the picture, I worked on it in Lightroom for about 15 minutes getting everything just right.
Basically, I’m using the LED’s in the light box to set the ambient light and the hot shoe flash to fill in the shadows. I also like to raise the yoyo(s) about 3-4 inches off of the bottom. I stopped the lens way down to keep everything sharp. I also exposed the image so that the highlights just barely started to clip. After the basic processing in Lightroom, I darkened the background and lightened the face of the Freq.mod.
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