I believe ED played his SPYY during that year. It says “exclusively” on the YT vid:
Even with the non-take-aparts, you can redowel them.
Totally. But for $10, wear it out, buy another, wear it out, buy another. Rinse, repeat. I think it took me 3 years to wear out the 2 I wore out as a kid.
I’ve prob scorched through 20-30 No Jive axles since I started playing them. Once you smell that smoke, you know your axle is toast (literally and figuratively). I have a lifetime supply AND I don’t generally throw as hard as I used to since progressive fixed axle started transitioning from longer sleep-based tricks to stall-based tricks. My TMBR axles last ridiculously long, especially if I burn them in before playing em.
My original eH axles were made of hemlock which was on the soft side. Think I went through 10-12 axles that year.
Wow! 
How do you do that?
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Waste not, want not… ;D
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Rod Tsou made the spindles for me.
I’m starting to feel like a real slacker, I’ve never burned an axle or melted the string in all the time I’ve played wood yoyos. 
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Thanks everyone! Just ordered my first wooden fixed axle throw and a bunch of type 10 cotton strings. I went for the OUT Just For Fun Walnut. I hope it is a great choice, I’ll just have fun with it no matter what. 
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best way is to take a kind of dead cotton string, wind it around the new axle a couple of times (less than 3) and CAREFULLY pull it through the gap a few times. This effectively sands down the axle, but if you do it too hard, the friction will burn it and ruin it. But it’s a good way to break the axle in with friction so it tends to play more smoothly/consistently and lasts longer. Takes about a minute.
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I understand that a soft wood will burn sooner, but which do you think plays better, a soft wood axle or a hard wood axle?
BTW, I have burned through a lot of string but never an axle.
Pun intended?
You should feel pretty good about doing slack on a wood fixie! ;D
I own a few of Stuart Crumps old No Jives, I have a pair of his loopers and the axles are concaved. no burns, but they were played so much they are no longer flat.
They play great! Just wish I was better at looping
I did gyro flops on a wooden axle before, but burning or melting the string is pretty unheard of. Maybe it’s luck, maybe I play too ‘soft’. Unless you have actually said it, I wouldn’t even think that burning the axle is even possible, unless maybe you’re doing like multiple around the worlds as hard as you can.
What yoyo did you do those flops on?
Mostly yoyos with harder axles like walnut (the recent standard) are very hard to scorch because they are so smooth and pretty dense. Try doing a long combo on a No Jive (or even better, a Russell) and you will smell smoke pretty quick. 
Also if it’s a yoyo you’ve played a lot, you take care of most of the wood imperfections anyway. It’s really just a new axle which is easy to destroy with friction. And even then we are t talking about cutting right through it - just burning a line/groove into it which increases contact area with the string and worsens play.
The only fixed axle I’ve ever been able to do a gyro flop on have been a couple of Colin’s yoyo’s, can’t remember which ones.
It was a custom made mahogany yoyo.
Just got my OUT Just For Fun and a bunch of YYE Type 10 Strings last Friday!
Played it through the weekend. When I put the string, I just looped it twice to the axle so I will have less sleep time. Haven’t tried the rubbing of wax at the end of the string yet. ;D
You can rub wax or lip balm on the end of the string, but really they just need to be broken in; it only takes a minute if you’re good at it. My OUT and TMBR yo-yos all have walnut axles and they are all unresponsive with a new string on them. The way I break in a new string is to do strong, one-handed windshield wipers continuously, allowing the yo-yo to sleep a long time on each regen until the yo-yo is tug responsive and plays perfectly. I used to use lip balm but I find it unnecessary now.
I just snagged the basecamp wooden yo, i havent used a decent wooden yo in forever!
Keep in mind that waxing it too much will make it responsive and whack your knuckles if you’re not careful.
The way you break in a wood axle is to take some thick packaging string (any string really, but the thick stuff works well), wrap it around the axle a couple of times, leaving about a foot on each end, and pulling it back and forth a few times until it feels smooth.