The string was knotted in my sons as well lol, I had to rip it out 
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Leaf came in today, hoping for my Klondike to show up either tonight or Monday, and Iāve finally got the G2 Nessie 24 coming in next week also 
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Sounds like you got a great week ahead with all those new throws! Great choices!
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How is this?
You actually completely sold me on the FD50 by explaining this, just ordered one.
This solution to my yo-yo organization has been overdue for like a decade
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Just got home from vacation, great mail day!
Thank you! @YotoyImages
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Yes, my question has been answered. Thanks.
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First mail day of 2025, One Drop 2013 Benchmark O
I got to try one of these at worlds last year and have wanted one since. Itās a boring yoyo done exceptionally well. Exactly the type of thing I like throwing.
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Hope you had a great Vacation. Congrats on the Bowl set.
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(kind of a long post, sorry)
After seeing the unfortunate outcome of the FB secret santa that I participated in a couple of weeks ago, a very generous and kind member of the community reached out to me and offered to send me something to make up for the sour situation. I hesitantly accepted (only because I didnāt feel like I deserved the kind gesture) a few days ago the package arrived and this is what was in it.
I am utterly and wholeheartedly speechless and grateful beyond words. They blew up my mailbox in a way I never imagined! It really turned my holiday around.
Look at it! Just look at it! The horror! (not actually my mailbox)
I hadnāt posted about this, but this past November I lost a sister right before Thanksgiving and her birthday. Two years ago I lost my father a couple of days before Christmas and a year before that my grandpa a few days before my Birthday in September. So the last 4 years have been super rough for me around the holidays. Iāve not really been in the spirit and have kind of dreaded it, not really wanting to acknowledge it was even going on.
To try and move forward the last two years I have participated in a charity auction to wood turn Christmas ornaments in conjunction with Turners Warehouse (www.turnerswarehouse.com) a wood turning store in Gilbert Arizona to raise funds for the St. Jude childrenās hospital in Arizona. We raised a total of $8,050 for the charity this year! Doing this has kind of brightened my spirits a little but itās still been a struggle to get through the holidays.
So, feeling good about the auction going so well and in an attempt to come to terms with my sisterās passing, I decided to do a secret Santa this year to try and make someone elseās holiday ājoyfulā and so I sent some packages to a couple of folks and unfortunately my āsantaā gave me a lump of coal, lol! It didnāt go so well and I was kind of bummed out because they didnāt follow the rules. It kind of reiterated that voice in my head that I was destined to have a crummy holiday one way or another. But then, someone on here reached out to me and offered to send me something to make up for that other personās naughtiness.
This package definitely turned my holidays around big time. I really canāt express how much it means to me. The generosity and friendship thatās in the community knows no bounds. I just wanted to post publicly to thank them once again. You know who you are and I really appreciate you! You helped turn a sour situation into a great one and I hope I am able to convey how much it means to me.
Sorry for the long post guys, I just thought I should give a background of what lead to this and I in no way mean for it to be a āflexā post.
Summary
For those interested the yoyos are from left to right
Top Row: Doc Pop Bolt, KnotCreators Typo, Unity Affinity, YYR Gotham, YoYoStudio LLama / YYR Fay
Second Row: Duncan Metal FH1 small bearing, Dressel Designs Fusion, YYF Titanium Dream, Jake Bullock Slappa, YYR Helvetica
Third Row: Luftverk plastic Fulvia, YYR Impact, Luftverk plastic 000, Fair Trade FTY138
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Some people just never run out of generosity, it seems.
Super happy for you! you deserve it man; thatās more yo-yos than I even own. lol
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What a community! Iām sorry for your loss but stoked for your mailbomb!
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Itās part of the reason I always end up coming back no matter how long Iām away from the hobby for whatever reasons.
Especially now given how many hobbies have become incredibly divisive or ultra competitive or whatever else. I havenāt experienced such genuine kindness and acceptance in anything else Iāve been a part of.
Thatās why it stands out so much when a bad apple pops up unfortunately.
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OD Rainier
This is a really nice one. Kind of what I was hoping forāa SE Top Deck with smoother rims. Really great job!
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The Rainier is derived from the Cascade, not the Top Deck, yes?
The salient element of the Top Deckās design, IMO, the thing that makes it a Top Deck, really, is its precariously thin bearing seat, which is how it achieves its unique weight distribution. I seriously doubt the Rainier was designed with the same weight distribution scheme as the Top Deck. Sorry if it seems like Iām picking at nits but Iām a bit of a Top Deck nutter and am rather particular about comparisons to it. 
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The Rainier profile was based on the Cascade, but the weight distribution was significantly altered to distribute weight to the rim.
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Right, but I think summarizing it as an āSE Top Deckā is incredibly misleading, at least to anyone who really knows the Top Deck well.
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I would say that an SE yo-yo could never be all that similar to to Top Deck for the reasons you pointed out.
Outside of the bearing seat, the Cascade seems closer to the Top Deck, as far as where weight is concentrated. To overcome the switch from that TD seat to an SE yo-yo would require a much more significant shift of weight elsewhere, which the Rainier does.
Enough for a result that is similar? I donāt know.
But what stands out about any yo-yo can differ from person to person anyway.
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