Throwing tops

[Firefrode]

Made some throwing tops of varying sizes for the grand kids
They had fun and not a battery or beep in sight

 

[paulm]

A lovely job on all of them. I've never had a go or even seen a throwing top and would like to have a go to see how it works. Any tips?

 

[stevenw1963]

+1, like the look of those

 

[ray7]

Lovely job. Old but still fun.

Ray

 

[Grump]

Too damn right they are fun.
Great stuff well done init?

 

[wm460]

very well made.

 

[Dalboy]

Nice job and well turned. What did you use for the pins

 

[chas_41_uk]

Nice. Well turned and finished

 

[Buckeye]

Superbly turned, a great toy, just like the whipping top I made for my grandaughter, these old toys are great. Have you done any cup & balls?

Peter

 

[Jim]

I recall the whipping top Fred, but these do look the buisness my friend ..

 

[kjmc1957]

For those poor souls who have stumbled across this by accident, when we talk about whipping tops and cupping balls I would like to assure that these are perfectly innocuous terms in our own odd, and often odder world......

 

[Firefrode]

Hi
Many thanks for all the positive comments
I use masonary nails as the pins pre drilling the end first
Currently i am makng bobbin tanks

 

[Buckeye]

Hi
Many thanks for all the positive comments
I use masonary nails as the pins pre drilling the end first
Currently i am makng bobbin tanks

Are they the cotton reels with elastic through the hole?

Peter

 

[Neil]

A lovely job on all of them. I've never had a go or even seen a throwing top and would like to have a go to see how it works. Any tips?

There's no way anyone should suggest that you should throw anything. Having the finesse of a charging rhino collateral damage to at least some of Somerset is a dead cert.

 

[wm460]

This is how you do it.

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&...=bp2DCKfGfEjHb7dTirSiIw&bvm=bv.72185853,d.dGc

 

[Buckeye]

This is how you do it.

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&...=bp2DCKfGfEjHb7dTirSiIw&bvm=bv.72185853,d.dGc

That's for wimps, this is how you do it

Peter

 

[Neil]

I showed this as an educational form of entertainment to my two boys, they could appreciate the power of the gyroscope effect, amaze people with balancing tricks and have a lot of fun. However they declined as they thought it might damage the playstation screen if they got it wrong.

Oh well, back to the shoot um up death and destruction games.

 

[Dalboy]

Or even better try some of these moves with it

 

[Buckeye]

Or even better try some of these moves with it

That's what wm460 posted.

Peter

 

[Dalboy]

That's what wm460 posted.

Peter

Must go to bed getting tired missed it