Haha yeah bro, we’ve talked about this before but we both love our DS and DT. I literally can’t put them down and it’s changed the way I play with yo-yos. All my unresponsives are just sitting in a closet now… maybe one day I’ll get back into it. Who’s to say.
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It’s definitely Grunt Birthday Party, as you said all the yo-yos are Halo references.
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Vigilancia plays slower than the Surveillance and is less stable but otherwise it’s an excellent monometal version of the Surveillance.
Overall as a monometal throw it’s really good.
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Tbh I forgot, but I love how much we’re on the same page there!
I recently found a rubber shielded C sized bearing, and filled that up with grease and it honestly made the Deep State a little snappier. Not much, but certainly enough to feel it. I figured since people use use rubber shielded bearings for extra response, in addition to sealing in the grease I’d give it a shot, and it worked lol.
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That’s awesome, I have my responsives greased up with dielectric grease, but a rubber shielded bearing would definitely be good for the deep state. I’ll have to try that out!
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Naw Jake released it in honor of my birthday.
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First bi-metal! I hate how suspiciously cheap magic yoyo is, but this thing plays great. Came with like a bajillion strings.
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Thank you for your thoughts! Your feedback is always appreciated.
Each Khuno was individually hand-tuned to play smooth before we shipped them. QC for the Khuno took longer than any other of our designs, but that was quite expected on our end; the width, extreme distribution of weight at the rims, and its SE-compatibility makes it such that the Khunos require finer tuning. It’s one reason we brought in the premium in NSK DS Platinum bearings; they’re machined to higher tolerance and has a more precise fit with SEs than the majority of other bearings. With the numerous moving parts in the Khuno – SEs, bearing, caps – every permutation of weight / distribution change does require some degree of tinkering for its best play. If you experience vibe that cannot be tuned out, please reach out to us! We’ll take care of you.
And, just a quick note on caps – injection-moulded plastic bodies are not the most precise, spec-wise, and the blank caps that come with the Khuno are hand-processed for fit and tested in the same way the Gravity caps are. The fit is intentionally tight, and should fit snugly when pressed all the way in. If you’re experiencing issues with getting them in at all, please reach out as well – I’ll get a new pair to you.
Again, this feedback is incredibly helpful! We might just look into cap alternatives for future runs. If we do, we will make them available to first-run Khuno owners.
We hope your experience with the Khunos have been good otherwise! We’d love to hear more thoughts and feedback, if anyone has any : )
R
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Holy smokes!!! Save some for the rest of us! 
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Did you shoot both pictures yourself? They look great
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Sure did 
Thanks!
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Hey Cow, how you been? I’ve got to get one of those!
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YYF confusion because I just started again after not touching one in 20 years and it’s supposed to be like my bumblebee. Having a lot of fun with it but I’m told to get an alleycat 650b if I have ever find one
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Mailday! I got the Opyoyos Spright!
Move aside YoYoFriends Hummingbird, a new yoyo has come to take your number 1 spot on my favourite yoyos list. The Spright is an easy favourite for me, it has an insane amount of stability and spin time for its weight, much more than the YoYoBrothers Voyage. The fact that the Spright is lighter than the Voyage just makes it even more impressive. My super light yoyos like the Rain City Skills Author and the G2 GBP just cannot compare in terms of spin time and stability to the Spright, the Spright easily beats them without lifting a finger. I played with it for 10 minutes after taking it out of the package and I knew it was going to be my favourite yoyo, it just clicked with me. The way it feels on the string is fascinating, it doesn’t have a super light feeling like most light yoyos do, which I guess it’s kinda why it has been popular with quite a number of people (usually light yoyos are a niche thing). It just has that perfect balance of power, light weight and agility that the Hummingbird had for me, but lighter, so it’s my favourite because I love lighter yoyos. Its power and stability is unrivalled by any yoyo in its weight class and its light weight just makes it move very quickly, but in a controllable way. A lot of light yoyos tend to start becoming extremely responsive to your hand movements as they get lighter and just a tiny movement would cause the yoyo to change its direction, giving rise to the feeling of the yoyo moving faster than you want it to move. The YYF 44 has this effect for me, but for others, some light yoyos that are heavier than the 44, like the Author, are already too fast for them to handle. The Spright however, doesn’t feel like this, which is very surprising. I’m guessing it’s due to the large amount of rim weight on the rims of the Spright giving it a more hefty, powerful feel instead of it being extremely zippy and hard to control. The rainbow rims on the Spright are magnificent, one of the more beautiful rainbow rims I’ve seen on a yoyo. I find it to look better than my rainbow rims on my Hummingbird, but SF still has the best rainbow rims ever with their Wainbow Bliss. The grind finish is very nicely done, a pretty good blasted finish that grinds very well, but definitely worse than the Mowl Surveillance. The rims are not as big on the outer side as the Hummingbird and the Spright is wider at 46mm, so it actually grinds better than my Hummingbird, even though the Hummingbird has a heavier blast. I’m surprised that the width of the yoyo didn’t bother me as much as it should have, as my favourite yoyo tend to have widths of below 45mm and I’m normally quite bothered by full-sized yoyos that are wider than that because my hands don’t fit nicely. But the Spright just feels natural in my hands and it just moulds to the shape of my fingers, so its wider width doesn’t really bother me too much. At a diameter to width ratio of 1.195, it is really pushing my acceptable range of diameter to width ratios, above 1.2, but I guess the Spright is close enough. It’s a yoyo that I didn’t really expect to like so much due to its wide width but it seems like the Spright has exceeded my expectations in its fabulous design. Horizontals on the Spright is just such a breeze, it flows so easily into my trapezes due to its light weight and agility and can keep up with those extremely tiny trapezes while still remaining very controllable.
Overall, I recommend this yoyo to everyone, even those who would rather have hefty playing yoyos. This is not one of those typical light yoyos that are uncontrollable and feel way too fast and light (the most common problem I see people have with light yoyos). You can definitely feel its presence on the string with the amount of rim weight it has. It’s a great follow up yoyo to the Float by Smashing Yoyos company, and hence it is definitely a yoyo that you can absolutely use for competition despite its light weight (and it’s somehow lighter than the float as well 
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@chaosgow has done a fantastic job with this yoyo, I’ll be playing this as my EDC extremely often.
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Hey @Hanker!
Nice write up here! I recommend that you repost it as a yo-yo review thread, that will make it easier for people to find in the future. 
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