Honestly I wouldn’t really say that OneDrop is in a happy middle ground. I think they’ve managed to figure out the vibe and bearing post situation because a lot of OneDrops are very, very smooth nowadays, even their side effect yo-yos. My Aitch is super smooth and the bearing comes out with little effort, which I appreciate a lot. I think OneDrop can achieve such a feat thanks to their insane tolerances in the bearing post (I think it’s like 0.005mm or something crazy like that, which is even tighter than aerospace and NASA tolerances) and them machining their own 10 ball bearings (yes bearings play a huge role as well). Here’s some comments from OneDrop talking about the bearing post and vibe situation:
The things that OneDrop is doing to sell a smooth yoyo that you can easily remove the bearing from is just mind blowing.
Frankly, A-RT can get away with anything at this point. It’s now on brand for them to sell yo-yos with defects like dings, ano flaws, scratches and vibe at full price (which are sky high [a monometal for $140, really?] for subpar quality control and some aren’t even USA or Canada made) and people will defend them and say that if you don’t like it, don’t buy their yo-yos. Nevertheless, it doesn’t change the fact that their quality control is basically non-existent and they’re perfectly happy with selling what most other brands would consider B-grades at full price with an A-grade tag.
I think it’s still a bi-metal Hummingbird, just that the aluminum body is modeled after the specs of the TiSS Hummingbird, which are sightly different than the standard AL Hummingbird (in thickness of the walls, IIRC). Making the body incredibly light and increasing the ratio of the rim-to-body-weight
I got it from yoyofriends directly about 6 weeks ago, so I don’t think so. I have seen a couple posts about people having major vibe issues with the current run, mine is perfectly smooth.
Dude, IKR. Mine has what look like some slight surface level scratches around the bearing seat but it does not seem to affect play. Totally worth the price to pick up a different type of throw than I’m used to.
