Basically only onedrop manufactures in the US bc they machine it themselves. Yyf sometimes uses us manufacturing but it just doesn’t make sense for most people. I think onedrop charges like double the rate chinese shops do for oem work ($70 for monos or something)
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Yeah, that makes sense, thanks. I’ve not even heard of Onedrop yet but I’m barely scratching the surface. I’ll have to research them.
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The Wizard is a One Drop on the larger side.
They also just announced another that seems like it must be in the same range.
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Dude, you are exposing me to some stuff that is right up my alley! Both the shell and the wizard are definitely going to make it in my arsenal. I just read up on the shell, I love that idear because I love how polycarbonate feels in my hand and I’m at the stage where I getting my arse kicked, I’m fighting the yoyo & the yoyo wins. My fingers are all tore up and I’m having trouble keeping mildly long finger nails on my right hand (keep them long because I play classical guitar as well as other styles but currently on a tremelo kick). I’ve busted my face up many times, I actually have a mild black eye right now too. lol. The Hidra NXG swung back around after throwing a breakaway from a bad bind and smacked me right in my eye socket bone, it hurt BAD! Still does. I know that will happen even with a polycarb throw but yeah, I guess it’s just a part of pushing the limits and doing my best to improve. I try my best to be careful and mitigate the risks but one bad bind always seems to sneak in there and throws me off guard. I do throw gentle if I even have the slightest hint that I may have a bad bind but they still get past me from time to time. I would really like to reduce the number of times I get knocked out by a yoyo, lol.
For now I’m just considering the cuts and bruises my war scars, a rite of passage, so to speak.
There I go again, just blabbing. In short, thanks for showing me the shell and the wizard, both of those look awesome!
Edit - aaaaand I just bought both. So, since this morning and thanks to you all in this forum, I now have the Emotion, the Shell & the Wizard to look forward to. See, it doesn’t take much to get me on a buying frenzy but now I need to chill out on my yoyo purchases. Haha. What do you all call it here? YYAD (YoYo Acquisition Disorder) 
if so, I definitely have it.
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It’s start innocently enough with one.
Then you see something cool you HAD to have.
Next thing ya know…
…oops.
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How do you like the DIY? I was going to pick one up when I got the PLTPS and the PLTPS Lite but none of the colors from the initial run were vibing with me.
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Me TWO!!!
You are not alone.
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Yo don’t forget to tie a slipknot before throwing that Yoyo.
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I like to live dangerously
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This would be one of those times that I prefer to live vicariously.
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Wow! Just, wow! That is the biggest collection I’ve seen so far!
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I really enjoy the DIY, my favorite plastic yoyo at the moment by a large margin
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I second that for the DIY… it is by far my favorite plastic yoyo… Highly recommend…
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I see what you did there! I’m glad I’m not the only one.
I may be the only one at my age group in these forums though, which is kind of embarrassing to admit but I’m turning 44 years old in a couple of weeks and I’m obsessed with yoyo’s. lol. I have seen Dazzling Dave on YT, so that made me feel a bit better. I just embrace what I enjoy as we all should, no matter our age. I do wish I would have found this a bit earlier in life but better late than never.
I’m into what I’m into, I like what I like… I’m also really into Rubik’s Cubes, guitars and woodworking (mainly wood turning) I have a bunch of lathes, including a small metal lathe. I may try my hand at turnings some YoYo’s someday. I know I won’t get the precision you’d get from a cnc machine but it would be a lot of fun.
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Well let me ease your worries and introduce you to the boomer YoYo club. We all grew up around a yoyo boom and are mildly obsessed with them.
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A lot of acronyms I’m not familiar with. DIY to me is obviously do it yourself but what are you all referring to in relation to yoyo’s?
Is there a page on relevant acronyms? I’ll be honest, I haven’t explored the forums too much yet. Each forum has some subtle differences that takes time to get used to learning how to navigate.
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By DIY in this context they are referring to this one…
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I really like the look of that white one. What strings are those in the pictures?
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