# When did it all become possible

**URL:** <https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-did-it-all-become-possible/299428>\
**Category:** David Metz\
**Created:** [February 28, 2019, 5:53am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-did-it-all-become-possible/299428 "2019-02-28T05:53:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mahnlong](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/mahnlong/32/46118_2.png) [@Mahnlong](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Mahnlong)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 5:53am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-did-it-all-become-possible/299428/1 "2019-02-28T05:53:53Z")

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Okay I don’t know all to much about yoyo design, but I do know that lots of things in life can seem almost impossible until they don’t. What I want to know is when did OneDrop stop being just an idea and become something that could actually happen?

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**Author:** ![da5id](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/da5id/32/48214_2.png) [@da5id](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/da5id)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 7:34pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-did-it-all-become-possible/299428/2 "2019-02-28T19:34:01Z")

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Mostly what makes what we do possible is that Shawn has worked as a machinist his whole life. He’s really good at this. We also need to have our machine shop. Combine all that and we made our first yoyo in 2007 and went full time as a yoyo company is 2009. When we sold our first run of Projects (our first yoyo) and it was well received, that gave us the idea that this could work.

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**Author:** ![smileypants707](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/smileypants707/32/19045_2.png) [@smileypants707](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/smileypants707)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 8:11pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-did-it-all-become-possible/299428/3 "2019-02-28T20:11:40Z")

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Don’t mean to hijack this thread, but do you still contract non-yoyo machining?

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**Author:** ![da5id](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/da5id/32/48214_2.png) [@da5id](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/da5id)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 8:40pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-did-it-all-become-possible/299428/4 "2019-02-28T20:40:22Z")

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not really because we don’t have time - too busy with yoyos 🙂