Haha! Touche. 
I will honour your cause by ceasing my use of that term in this thread until I discover one way or another if the whole term “fixed axle yoyo” is cumbersome or not.
Ha! Speak how you like. I just can’t disentangle the word from my perception of the forced irony of the hipster culture, which I find grating at times. Please don’t censor your language on the behalf of a middle aged curmudgeon like me 
I’ll just sigh and grumble and complain about what the world is coming to lol.
happy friday!
here’s a special SPYYxTMBR Eh you can win if you’ve got a rad trick!
also, here’s the concept i chose to explore this week. sorry for all the slow-mo, but i do think it makes things like spin direction way easier to see.
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No need to apologize for the slow motion. I think we can all agree that seeing more of you throwing in slow motion would be a very good thing.
What was that song? Almost sounded like Jeff Tweedy singing.
Just got in a Love Joy and I think it’s one of my favorite fixed axles so far… Mostly because I can play it somewhat acceptably in comparison to a lot of the older fixed axles. (Kuhns primarily)
Maybe I just haven’t broken in the TKs adequately. I find them way too responsive to play 1A with.
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Thanks for the video Ed. I have qa question though. Whenever I snap my yoyo, it won’t rewind. I have the same problem with other types of hand starts that I do frequently. Any advice?
This just came in today. John Higby painted Irving. I can’t stop grinning.
Love it. I was eyeing those.
fixed axles are fickle (especially wood). you’ve got to have the right string tension or even wood can be very unresponsive, especially when unwound. try doing a few ufo’s, especially increasing the tension down by the axle. it’ll make the string kink up a bit, but you can always hold that apart with your free hand while you snap. it also takes a lot of work to build up your snaps to being really strong and consistent.
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Even when prepped, I’ve found the TK axles burn through relatively easy if you throw super hard all the time - especially with the thinner cotton string that’s most widely available. I do find that hitting my axles with a bit of paraffin canning wax, then playing them nice and easy for the first half hour or so, really helps with this issue - props to jhb for the tip! But I’ve found the TMBR axles to be pretty darn maintenance free, and I’ve not yet burned through one.
this brought $1,620!
Jumpin’ Juniper, what the heck kind of beautiful creation is that? AMAZING!
Thanks Greg,
I’ve been turning Terror Tops for about 10 years…making Side Effects before we had a name for it
where can I obtain a beauty such as that one?
Yay! first fixed axle string snap! 
Ive been playing with a pair of yellow wood yoyos i got from gettysburg! They have gettysburg imprinted on them and are quite entertaining!
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Still hasn’t happened to me 
I thought it was kind of common, but so far it seems kind of not.
I only snap strings if the string is junk or I don’t pay attention and let one wear through. I’m not sure it’s an event worth celebrating. The last time it happened to me, it would have cost me a large living room window had a RecRev i not been sitting right exactly where it was.
It was perched on the edge of a cabinet watching over me with my wily and unpredictable Fremont. With no concern for its own safety or future trade value, the RecRev i leapt to my security deposit’s rescue as the Fremont sailed at an improbable angle over the very same edge. RecRev doesn’t make yoyos, they make heroes.
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