More CU sightings

After a long absence, Takeshi has put out a new video. Apart from being really cool in the normal "let's have fun" Takeshi style, it also features a CU sighting here, there, and especially here...



If you don't feel like leaving the page, the actual video, graciously hosted on yoyoing.com/videos, is embedded below.



Ok, watch it now. Watch it again. Download it - it is well worth it.

C(the)Video

I've just stumbled across this CU video by Tie McClellan posted over at YoYoNation. For the lazy amongst us, or those so eager to see it that they cannot stand clicking a link, it is embedded below:



In another thread, Tie also posted more pictures of the CU, this time with some smaller counterweights. (As used in the video.)

Very nice. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one enjoying 5A with mine.

CU Around

There has been a couple of CU info and review threads popping up all over the place before and since Worlds. In case you missed it, here is a summary of the more interesting ones:

An I need one now thread popped-up at YoYoNation just before Worlds. There are a couple of pictures in this otherwise long thread, and goes from the days before release until some lucky souls were able to pick up some at A-two-Z and Bird In Hand. My take? Out of the box it can do a 7 minute 15 second sleeper. I won't try and replicate that feat.

So some people got them and they immediately started posting some reviews, including this one featuring comparison photos of the CU next to a Duncan FHZ and YoYoFactory 888 (and in the palm of a hand!) and this review with a counterweight and next to an Anti-Yo Busine$$.

The first review was also reposted at TheYo, and we learned that the CU can also be used as a footbag, hubstack catches (utilizing the Alchemy FHZ hubstack kit) from 40ft up and some off-string. After hitting some walls, ceilings, and all kinds of other unimagined horrors, it came out unscathed. Don't try this at home folks - even stainless steel is not indestructible.

After all this CU madness, honorable mention goes to the Nimbus. It was mentioned in the review thread at TheYo as well as over at YoYoing.com. If you were (and even if you weren't) able to give it a test-drive at Worlds, we will have the first production run available really-soon-now.

Hello World!

Well, the 2007 World Yo-yo Contest is over and Alchemy Yo-yos is now officially in existence. It feels good.

At the 2007 WYYC we launched the CU and had an updated version of Eric's Silk available for sale. Smoother, heavier, even better. (If that is at all possible.) We even allowed people to try prototypes of the Nimbus, which if the earth, moon and stars all play along should be available in the next 2-3 weeks. Feedback has been extremely positive and we look forward to letting this model loose on an unsuspecting public.

More CUs will follow shortly afterwards - yes, that is right, we sold out the first production run. It went a bit quicker than we expected, but we also have to carry some of the blame - due to some miscommunication between us and the machine shop, we only got half of the units we wanted to make available at the contest. To make a long story short, everything we had available sold out in the first 2 hours. Not bad for a little stainless steel wonder.

Alchemy has signed up 3 additional retail stores at the contest, which brings the number of retailers that will carry our products to 8. This means that we cover a large part of the globe, with retailers in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa eager to receive their shipments.