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[Jack]

just wondering if anybody has had any experiance with a wooden peg as a tip? i saw 2 tops at an antique sale way back and one still had the wood tip and the second identical one had lost its  so good sirs i pose this question...............

[ta0]

Do you mean like this one? :



I have done a boomerang and probably trapeze with it but, as you can see on the photograph, the originally pointy tip is easily blunted from a strike on the floor.  These were surely low cost tops.

Duncan also had a little top with a tip turned with the body (Little Champ).  It was printed with different company logos and probably given away for free as promotions:



One day I will make a gallery of spintop tips.  This is from a 1998 article on Reminisce magazine about the Burlington Museum:

[poptop]

I turned a wood top with a wood tip--hour-glass shaped for string play--using my wood lathe.  It worked for a short while, but as you might expect, it broke at the narrow part of the tip after a few hits to the ground.  I suspect some extra hard wood (ironwood?) may have lasted longer.

[jim in paris]

salut jack

you can make a top with built-in tip

you need a hard wood like box,oak root or "cormier"
don't turn the neck too narrow
it really works

the only problem is the lack of weight in the tip
look at my entry for the mod contest
and also the video with amish woodturning (john , please : the link..)

my 2 cents
jim

[johnm]

Jim's mod contest top


video turning a one-piece top



Neff and Alan have reinforced larger plastic tips with a steel bolt or rod.  This provides both a stronger neck region and a stronger spinning point.  Something similar could be done for a wood tip of reasonable size.

wooden peg as a tip?

Many finger spinners work fine with a sharpened straight wooden peg.  Typically the tops used in the skittles games have simple straight wooden shafts with very blunt or flat ends to help them move around the arena.  Some of the Japanese Koma designs have straight wooden shafts and ends.

[jim in paris]

thank you John for the Amish woodturning link
it's a good document


jim

[Jack]

mmmm thx for the info guys! and salut mr jim  . the ones i saw btw had a simple peg as the tip much like you would have a nail as a tip