Halifax

Description

Once upon a time (late 2010, early 2011), we were working on a yo-yo called the HALIFAX. When spelled out in all caps, the letters of that fine city contain no curves, just like the profile of that yo-yo, pretty neat huh?  Are we a bit crazy? :)

Around the same time, we had begun throwing ideas back and forth with team member Daniel Dietz about his signature yo-yo. In addition, as a team tester, it was one of his jobs to throw new designs and offer feedback. To that end, we sent him a HALIFAX prototype to get his feedback. Turns out that he thought it was his signature yo-yo and he loved it!  We didn't have it in us to break him the bad news, so in a two-birds-with-one-stone kind of fashion, the HALIFAX became the Dietz. And later, the lab experiment.  

This release is inspired by our 20/20 Hindsight Series, but technically not part of it because the HALIFAX was never released.  This feels more like the completion of a story - we wanted to tie up this loose end.  This version has a tapped axle system and a hub that looks like a Dietz Side Effect (although a smaller version).  There are other small refinements to dial it in: slightly bigger diameter and slightly smaller width.   It’s cool to release something we designed so long ago and to be able to refine it with what we have learned in the years since then. It’s smooth as butter.