happy friday! rocking a no jive for these buckets.
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Just go my OUT Pocket Love in bloodwood and my first thoughts are ric flair and woooooo!
First off, no joke about the extra heft to the bloodwood. Mine weighs in at a solid 66.6 grams while my padauk PL is a svelt 43.3 grams!
This wood shines like tigers eye at different angles in the light. So do other woods, but I haven’t seen anything close to this yet. I tried to capture it in pictures. A golden shiny color pops out and its amazing. Of course my pictures cannot do it justice.
I’m sure I’ll play this beauty, but she is going to be more shelf queen than hardcore player that I play anywhere, anytime, any trick, etc.
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The more light shining at the right angle creates more golden reflections. Best example I could sort of get.
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More pics of wood, because I felt like it.
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Just for fun…oak on oak action.
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diggy diggy bop, mad sick bucket hop!
I ought get a wood for fixed axle. I can do it but don’t have a winged wood.
I use a transaxle for fixed axle.
Maybe Christmas? 
What would you guys recommend? I love the EH but they don’t sell them. The Baldwin was a little slippy for me.
Hmm…
You can adjust the gap on TMBR yoyos by shimming (if you want wider) or sanding the axle (if you need narrower). The EH was even slippier for me than the Baldwin, until Ed mentioned to me that you can sand the axle (I don’t know why, but it just wasn’t obvious to me to modify the gap!).
I don’t want to mess with all of this shimming and sanding nonsense.
What fixed axles are good out of the box? I don’t want any of that unresponsive crud.
TMBR Fremonts are very high on the responsive side for woods that I’ve played. I own 3 of them, and still had to shave the axle on 2 of them, however. I had to shave the axle on my Baldwin, Turner, and have not played my Lovejoys enough to know whether I will need/want to or not.
OUT Pocket Love and JFF have remained responsive, but are not take apart if that’s your thing. The crop circle response on the OUT yoyos is out of this world, however and I have not felt the need to modify response which is good because I cannot. The JFF is more responsive than the pocket love which can be a little bit on the loose end of things with slightly negative string tension and depending on the string condition.
Get type 10 YYE cotton string. Everything else is too thin for responsive play in my opinion.
Wood is an inconsistent medium which leads to having to make more adjustments to compensate. It will be more difficult and if messing around to try and find the response you desire is a put off, then wooden fixed axles might not be your thing unless you use a Profly or something similar.
Just my 2 pesos. Your experience may vary.
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I mainly know TMBR. I can tell you this: it took about 2 minutes to tune my EH for the level of responsiveness I wanted.
- Unscrew yoyo
- Take wooden axle (axle “sleeve”, really) off the threaded metal axle. Could require giving it a good twist to loosen it off. Treat it like you’re unscrewing it and you’ll be fine.
- On a flat surface with fine sandpaper on it, hold the sleeve as true as possible (straight up and down) and run it back and forth to remove a hair’s width of material
- Reassemble.
While I get what you’re saying…
A huge part of the fixed axle experience (and specifically wood) involves tuning your yoyo. Incremental adjustments have such profound results and players’ preferences are so subtly different that there’s literally no way for a company to release a yoyo which conforms to everyone’s liking “out of the box”.
The Tmbr which plays most responsive out of the box is the maple Turner, but with thicker string or a slightly sanded gap, the Baldwin is also easy to get snappy. No Jives tend to come setup just the way I like them, but even they can have unresponsive/snaggy fits based on things like the weather, your string, your throw, and seemingly your expectations.
Embrace the fact that wood is fickle and mercurial and difficult to get performing to everyone’s liking, and I think you’ll end up finding it way more satisfying.
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Many of my TMBR’s were great straight out of the pack.
I only adjusted the Morrison. When I changed the Axle on a Baldwin the New Axle needed a quick sand.
Don’t be worried about adjusting a gap. It is not hard and you will probably want to graduate to that level one day anyway.
My OUT Pocket Love - Purple Heart w/Cherry Axle - has been great since day one and it has seen a lot of string pass through its gap. It has a Fixed Gap and does not come apart.
For any of you OUT fans, they have some more of the Bloodwood Pocket Love’s waiting for a good home.
I have the Pocket Love in Purple Heartwood and Walnut. I am waiting on my Bloodwood and a Cherry. 
As you can tell, I am a huge fan of the Pocket Love Shape.
I just spied on FB that Once Upon a Tree (OUT) has a new design throw on the way.
The “Tree Hugger” I think.
It looks like a great shape, I hope YYE gets them in…
Has anyone else checked it OUT
Sooo pretty!!! 
Does the the Wood Rocks yoyo play good? I am pretty broke and hardly yoyoing right now, but it’s a good price for a Christmas present…
I’m pretty happy with the Tom Kuhn “Wood Rocks”…it’s not a take-apart, but is a perfectly balanced butterfly and plays like a champ.
This needs a bump. I’m working on my fixie skills using my lovely spidey proyo for now, but I’m going to pick up a wood fixie when I get the chance. Any suggestions on cheap wood fixies?
Tom Kuhn is a rather inexpensive and very decent playing wood; for 10 bucks it’s definately worth it.
Also, while I’m posting, here is a peek at my newest design. I shipped out a large assortment of JFFs and Pocket Loves to YYE last week, so they should be dropping in the not too distant future
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Whoot!!! More OUT on the Way!!!
I hope to pick up a few.
I also have one of them there Tree Huggers on the Way.
I Cant Wait.
O.U.T. is Out!
Pocket Love and Just For Fun, both available in a variety of wood.
Get some before they are all gone…
(Before I Get them all…)
Just put up this rare prototype Jamboo on my BST if any of you wood lovers are interested
