the making of hash

in some ways, this was the easiest yoyo to design. in some ways, this was the hardest. I want to walk you through everything we did to make Tetsuto Kato’s signature yoyo, the hash.

This was the first design. We wanted to create a smaller size D bearing sucction/motif hybrid for his use. this idea was went through 2 prototypes before we scrapped this idea.

This was the third prototype, and second design. We tried to keep the same concept of the capped d bearing yoyo, but with an inner rim that wraps around. It felt like a great idea in concept, but in reality, it was doing too much with too little. We went through 3 of these prototypes.

At the very end, we circled back to an idea that I’ve had. We wanted this yoyo to play like what we remembered old school yoyos to play like. When we remake or remaster a yoyo, we have two options. we could either manufacture the yoyo as is, or we can remaster it, to make it play the way you remembered it to be like. yoyos change, we change, and our equipment must change with it. i hope this yoyo reminds you of when you first picked up a proper bearing yoyo, after being frustrated with whatever plastic transaxle yoyo you were using before. I hope this yoyo makes you realize how many tricks are left to be discovered, just like when you first got your ball bearing yoyo.