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[dazzlingdave]

I spent a long time making a top and a video.

Check it out!

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Thanks

Dave

[the Earl of Whirl]

Wow!!!  That is quite amazing.  I watched most of the video but most especially all of the end.  It was quite interesting.  I will watch all of it later.  Good work.  Hope your thumb heals quickly.

[Dick Stohr]

Well done, thanks for doing this.

[butterfingers]

Well done, thanks for doing this.

I'll second that.

I watched with great interest and learned a few things!

[ta0]

Great video!  Lots of good tips and, for a change, it was a turning video with some drama too! 
Even if you didn't get the breakage on camera, there was the incertitude of running out of wall thickness and even blood!

It seems to me that the crazy boomerang was not due to balance mostly, but to the ball shape (equal longitudinal and transversal moments of inertia). The same problem that the Short Circuit has with the metal tip. That's why putting weight at the bottom, but centered, got rid of it.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

[cecil]

I can’t Waite to watch it all tonight. A segmented top is stronger and more beautiful.

[Dick Stohr]

I can’t Waite to watch it all tonight. A segmented top is stronger and more beautiful.

Not when one of the layers is plywood. It has happened three times to NFO, my big top.   

[jim in paris]

waoh ! that's a beautiful top !
a lot of skills involved ;thanks for filming all the steps in the process.

cheers
jim

[mailman]

Fun video!  Thanks, Dave....

[Jeremy McCreary]

I'm calling it a success, too. Truly elegant visually. Agree with ta0 about the dynamics.

[cecil]

This is the formula I use.

[Jeremy McCreary]

When laying out layers of segments of woods of different densities and colors, you could get some interesting asymmetric visuals without losing balance by applying the centrifuge rule recently posted by ta0.