Yeah, I’ve got a few. My favorite is one made from cherry, which is very dense. Just a traditional shape, good for stalls but a little heavy for looping.
I looked up the Woodchuck yoyos, those look great! Very similar profiles to the Irving by the looks of it.
The woodchucks look fantastic! Are they a take apart design?
That’s a deal breaker for me. Butterfly shapes should be take apart for me. I knot all the time.
I might get all three wether they are take apart or not.
Holy cow. I’m jealous of those No Jives. Can anyone tell me how that one piece No Jive compares to the 3-in-1? I don’t imagine that there are a huge number of differences except weight?
First, the obligatory acknowledgement of how great Ed is. Because it’s just a truism at this point.
Just got a couple of No-Jives and I’m addicted. Had one back in the day but didn’t really understand its greatness. Spending about 80% of my yoyo time with them right now. Stalls are FUN. I’ve got a Fremont and a couple of Sleep Machines, too, but they didn’t grab me the way the No-Jives have. Definitely looking forward to ordering a few more TMBRs in the future.
We need a small wood yoyo team.
I have a No Jive - but just can’t seem to get it set up the way I’d like it to play, and struggling to tune it so it’s relatively wobble free.
Currently rocking a Russell Ellipse (plastic with wood axle) from the 1970s, fantastic little yoyo.
Of course, I’d still love to get my hands on something turned by Eric Wolff.
u gotta keep rotating the nuts till u find the placing where its the “least” wobbly. its never 100% wobble free. i got 2 no jives man, ones wobbly and the other is really smooth, u never know.
my fav right now is the tmbr lovejoy, it spins really long and is also good for stalls… lookin fwd to trying the baldwin one day as well.
I plan on picking up a lovejoy and a baldwin ASAP.
Ok, I got it…thanks to this thread, My Lovejoy is in the mail, on the way to my house. Lookin’ forward to my 1st “woodie”!
You’ll be hard pressed to find a new one. They’re out of production. There might still be some left on the Tom Kuhn web site.
I’ll post a photo review of the Baldwin when it arrives. I’ve never done any string tricks with a fixed axle butterfly so this should be very interesting…and painful. 
Oh so painful!
Just got my paycheck and have $100 extra to spend. I’m thinking wood…
Hey where is everyone finding tutorials for string tricks? I’d love to learn some stalls.