Got this stripped red splash b-grade shutter sent to me in a sock so I polished it up for the heck of it. 
1000, 2000, 3000, 4000 grit dry/wet and a couple rounds of Mothers mag polish by hand.
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Wow, that looks incredible. 
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Dang that’s a lot of work but the result is awesome!
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A pink yoyo a day while the Giro d’Italia is going on and today it’s Opyoyos Spright and the new Yoyofactory Genesis 2023.
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How’s the new genesis??
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I have one and it’s one of my favorites to throw. Excellent yoyo. It’s one of those inexpensive throws that I wouldn’t mind picking up one in another color. That raw polished shutter is tempting me with ideas…
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It’s really good, still testing it out but I’m liking it. Has a hollow feel to it and I like that it’s not so wide.
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Genesis. Red black, half engraved, half not. Got them from Tyler back in the day.
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Lol me too! I’ve been looking at my collection like, “dang which of you is getting a bath in over cleaner?” I want a polished AL yoyo so bad now! @Tobiyo89 that looks so good!
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I’ll go grab number 59……
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a while, but it doesn’t spin very long. Interesting story though regardless. Many years ago I went to an estate sale. It was so big it lasted eight weekends. The guy that passed away owned the local bank. Now and then the bank with foreclose on businesses. The owner often would absorb things instead of selling them at auctions and things of that nature. For example, with a local photography store tanked, the banker just took all the cameras and stuff home.
He had 22 garage built on his property. All right next to each other connected. He had them built as he ran out of space for the stuff he was bringing home.
He had a real huge yard behind his mansion. For some odd reason there was a little shed built right in the middle of this big yard. It was filled with various gardening, tools, and things of that nature.
I found it fascinating because it was right in the middle of this huge yard, and it just seemed out of place to me. It seemed like it should be off to the side. To me it was like building a restroom in the middle of a baseball field.
I asked a couple people what’s going on with that little shed in the middle over there? They told me the owner was kind of a freak for doing his own gardening, and that was his little special tool shed.They said when he felt like he could no longer garden, he gave strict orders that nobody was to touch the shed. No one wants to go in it for any reason. It was locked. He had the only key. One of his relative told me that no one had gone in the shed for 35 or 40 years. The only knew that there were some tools inside, but that was it. Even after the old gentleman passed away, for several weeks. No one bothered with the shed because I didn’t mean much to anybody anyway.
Since I only live several blocks up the street I would visit on each weekend to see if there was anything for sale that I couldn’t live without?
I almost always have a Yoyo hanging from a belt loop holder. A family, whose family business is nothing but managing estate sales for whatever reason seem to be yo-yo enthusiasts. On my first visit to the estate sale the man running the show noticed my yo-yo and asked if I could do a couple tricks? I told him that’s all I can do as a couple of tricks. And that’s exactly what I did a couple of tricks…
The family started calling me yo-yo man. I didn’t care… I thought it was kind of funny.
Somewhere around the sixth or seventh weekend of the estate sale, one of the relative instructed a couple workers to dismantle the shed. The shed was built with double layer, construction like a house. It had any wood and outer wood, with an air space just big enough to accommodate the 2 x 4 horizontally, placed wood blocks. As the workers were dismantling the shed, something fell out that had been sitting on a horizontal block of wood. It seems that, for whatever reason it fell between the inner and outer walls of the shed, and landed on this one piece of wood. They calculated that it had been there for approximately 35 to 40 years since no one had been in the shed for that long.
The very next weekend when I drop by to see what was left, one of the auction people said hey, yo-yo man…… the workers found something you might like and tell me the story. They didn’t know if it had any value, but since it was a Yoyo, I figured they leave it up to me to figure that out. So the kid handed me this yo-yo and said he was something for your collection
A little wooden yo-yo, kind of reddish brown and 1/2 black on the other. It says Duncan Junior on the side. I finally decided to look this thing up in my yo-yo book. As you can see in the image, the text says Yoyos made from the 30s to the 50s. so even though I can’t prove it, it does seem reasonable that this yo-yo could’ve been in suspended animation for somewhere around for years .
I understand the stories not too amazing. But you got admit it is kind of a once in a lifetime thing.
I never really thought of collecting all Duncan yo-yos. But I added this one to my collection and it’s pretty cool especially now that I figure it out it’s older than me and in pretty darn good shape.
Anyway, here it is.
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Great story Doc, that Jr. Looks brand new. Im sure its glad to be apart of your crew instead of that shed 
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