Your Ideal Responsive Yoyo

[Glenacius_K (Spinworthy Glen)]

@EOS44

My ideal responsive yoyo would be a Harbinger (one of the slightly older designs, before they were made with softer edges) with updated axle/response holes and a larger diameter (maybe 1-2 mm).

I just might make that soon.

[Glenacius_K (Spinworthy Glen)]

@edhaponik

yep. keep the rocket.

For sure. You can still shoot for the moon on your raft.

[Glenacius_K (Spinworthy Glen)]

@MarkD

If someone were so inclined, they could purchase a wood lathe and start learning how to use it and make wood yoyos at their own home. They’d have their hands on every step of the design and manufacturing. It’s practical.

It certainly is nice to be able to decide to make a yoyo and then make it happen the same day. It’s immediately more accessible than organising a design to get made at a machine shop and being places in a production queue.

The downside is that while simple in concept making consistently excellent wooden yoyos is very hard. Not only do you need to hone your skills in yoyo design, you need to grow in woodturning skills, wood sourcing and selection and ever increasing in your skills in concentricity.

[yoyo-matt-ratt (THE BLUE BEETLE.)]

i actually stripped my madhouse rad, and i just fixed it to play modern responsive. not the ideal shape, but it works.

[yoyo-matt-ratt (THE BLUE BEETLE.)]

sorry compulsion.

[fatguysnacks247 (FSYB & FairTradeYoyos)]

@edhaponik

i don’t know how many rejects colin ditches due to vibe. several of the ones which haven’t made it to market over the past few eH releases have been due to breaking in transit.

someone has to have both of these numbers. the yoyos aren’t priced at $60, or $100, so all these numbers are rooted in some sort of facts, based on what all these prior runs performance have shown. i’d also assume that based on how many are not broken in transit to the consumer, rejects are higher on what is perceived as the qc side… though i’m assuming

@edhaponik

but a yo-yo’s gotta spin as smooth as the medium allows.

what is this, what is this benchmark? who is the judge? what is this compared to?

the original question was: what is your ideal responsive yoyo? the word ‘best’ was thrown right out the gate to describe wood. ‘perfect’ to describe wood has been used prior. what makes it perfect when our world is filled with oodles of materials?

ideal in a philosophical sense puts forth thoughts of platonic forms and the like. ideal in a worldly sense puts forth thought of quantifiable and measurable attributes that can be compared, and possibly improved upon.

as mentioned, we could be on a raft or a rocketship, but we are improving both. glen’s attempts are merely one example on the responsive side. there are very few of us on here that have been able to create our ideal responsive, so i was a little bummed that it took so long in the thread for ideas to come out. instead, others’ ideals were picked. not that they are bad, are they your perfect though?

i hope you all have figured out what i’m getting at here by now…

[Myk_Myk]

@fatguysnacks247

i hope you all have figured out what i’m getting at here by now…

Maybe I’m dense. I don’t really know what the problem is, or understand what you’re getting at.

I have lots of yoyos that I love to play. Not a single one is perfect. Some are better than others, but the best are either good at one thing, and another’s good at another. Some are pretty good at a lot of things. Some things about older ones I feel are better. Some things about newer ones I feel are an improvement. In general, I think yoyos are getting better, and better.

Cool creative people are coming up with cool new designs, or tweaking old ones, and eager consumers are buying them. What exactly are you trying so hard to fix?

[Myk_Myk]

@yoyo-matt-ratt

i actually stripped my madhouse rad, and i just fixed it to play modern responsive. not the ideal shape, but it works.

Let us know how it works out. Are you using the outer race if the bearing? That diameter axle might not allow it to spin so nice. Also, the gap might actually keep it unresponsive, but you said it works… The weight is not ideal either.

[fatguysnacks247 (FSYB & FairTradeYoyos)]

@Myk_Myk

What exactly are you trying so hard to fix?

that’s exactly what iiiiiiiiii am asking, big picture. as a designer, or a manufacturer - or as a consumer - what are you trying to fix… i can keep going man, but i’ve given enough milk away on this one. this cow didn’t come cheap…

[Myk_Myk]

Got ya!

I think SpectraPly, might be one way of minimizing rejects while still providing the beneficial qualities of wood?

Still wouldn’t want all of my wood yoyos made out of that. Variety is the spice of life. Wood gives that in spades!

[fatguysnacks247 (FSYB & FairTradeYoyos)]

it is, or i would think due to control of the consistency if the material, and it’s damn beautiful. i’m sure the pros can speak to any difficulties working with the product, as well as the expense. i would imagine you have to be on your game working with that material… higher risk, better reward

and i concur

[yoyo-matt-ratt (THE BLUE BEETLE.)]

agreed, the weight is kinda heavy. no im using a bearing blank.

[Myk_Myk]

OK, if for whatever reason you’re not in a place to buy yoyos right now, PM me, and I’ll send you a Legend Wing.

[yoyo-matt-ratt (THE BLUE BEETLE.)]

PM’d

[yoyo-matt-ratt (THE BLUE BEETLE.)]

[DocPop]

[fatguysnacks247 (FSYB & FairTradeYoyos)]

i haven’t had the opportunity to try one, unfortunately… though it is one i really would like to… my stars just haven’t aligned in terms of timing… i’ll snag one… it’s like the best one i haven’t tried

[Legit_yoyostrings (Landis Johnston)]

I love the weekender, I don’t own one but I’ve played with @Sinister_Yoyos weekender and its the best responsive ive ever tried

[Big (David H)]

I absolutely love my weekender. I’m eagerly awaiting the pop art.

[Exmime]

The @DocPop Pop Art looks good

PopCast Yo-Yo Vlog #37: The Pop Art prototype