String, Pads, Bearings...

I just found this short review of a couple of a Alchemy products over at TheYo. Alchemy string, Vapor Pads and our Beefcake kit.

First Nimbus Review

The first Nimbus review is up at TheYo, you can read the impressions here.

CU vs. Stikfa

I found this picture on YoYoing.com.



Well, it made me smile.

CUs & Nimbi are Shipping!

Ok, I'm a bit late in this update having had some trouble posting in the last day or two. But let's not dwell on the past. Both the CU and Nimbi are shipping or have been shipped to retailers. We did the shipping to international customers first (last week), followed by the US-based stores (this week). The following stores will receive their orders shortly and should have some Alchemy products in stock real-soon-now:

A-two-Z (US), Bird In Hand (US), Boing Skilltoys (ZA), Gyroscope (RU), Infinite Illusions (US), LetsHaveFun (UK), Lofty Pursuits (US), Spingear (JP), Wonderful Yo-Yo World (TW), YoBoy (AU) and YoYoNation (US).

11 Retailers, 7 Countries, 5 Continents. Get one, get a couple, you can even build your own 132 gram yo-yo...



(Disclaimer: We don't advocate playing with crazy-insanely-heavy combined yo-yos. It cannot be too good for your wrists, arms or sanity.)

Nimbi are back...

... and assembly started on Friday. We are still waiting on a couple of CUs, we have a lot, but not enough for the orders we have. They should arrive any day now, they have been shipped. So things are a bit delayed, but with some luck these should ship to retailers sometime this week.

Wood is good

I ran across the other Alchemy, The Alchemy Project, a while back and promptly forgot about it. Last night I was reminded of their yo-yo by a fellow Alchemist and it being a slow news day, decided to post it. This is what they have to say under the heading of The Return of the yo-yo:

Forget Second Life, forget the Playstation and Nintendo Wi, don’t you ever wish we could sometimes go back to basics? At the Alchemy Project we decided to do just this and have created our very own yo yo for your pleasure.

Simply drop us an email or give us a ring and we’ll send you one out direct to your door!

Just a simple wooden yo-yo with a very nice intricate logo, simple effective, and best of all it comes back up. Since I haven't given my Playstation the attention it deserves lately, I should actually take them up on their offer.

The better to CU with my dear

All the Alchemists are having fun with hubstacks lately. Eric is at it this time - modifying a CU. CU, Alchemy FHZ hubstack kit, YYF T-stacks. He says it best, so I'm not even going to try and summarize. (I even stole his topic)

So, what you have here starts with a CU with a HEAVILY modified Alchemy hub stack kit. The post/nuts were machined down so that the outer edge of the stack sits inside the outer edge of the yo-yo rim. Then I took a set of YYF T-stacks and reduced the diameter so that they would fit inside the rim with a little clearance (I’ll bet I’m the only person on the planet that has a jam chuck for hub stacks – you turners will know what I mean). Then I scanned the CU eye image from the lid of the box it came in, enlarged it slightly, and printed it on self-adhesive clear label stock. Then I laminated the label stock, stuck the images on the modded T-stacks, and trimmed it around the outside.