Jeremy McCreary was at a convention in Austin and drove to San Antonio to see my collection and talk tops. He was here for about 6 hours, so it was a good visit but could have been much longer and we wouldn't have ran out of material.
The first thing he asked was to see my Simonelli top, of course. He got to spin it several times and we changed the tip back to high-speed steel but didn't have time to check the balance with a paint brush.
The Balaroo game was on the table and, as it had happened to me at Don Olney's, he got beginners luck and tumbled every single ball on the first spin.
Being Jeremy, the discussions many times took a technical slant
what was different to other times I show the collection, but I enjoyed that. By the way, he described to me a very interesting experimental setup he has with a turntable that he will post soon here.
I have part of the collection still in boxes, so I couldn't fulfill all his requests, but I think he got a good serving of tops.
I got good company and the opportunity to talk tops instead of working
Most of the day the weather was great, and we ate in the patio of a restaurant, but by the time he left a big thunderstorm started, so I imagine the trip back to Austin took much longer.
