Category: June ’20: Tops & YoYos

Better late than never …..

I have now worked out how to do this ?

So my 2nd attempt at a spinning top, made from ash I think, and coloured with you….. guessed it, non other than the HampshireSheen intrinsic collection…… It’s bit of a…

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glued a few small off cuts together, to make this yo-yo. Not overly happy with the glue up, got a bit lazy and didn’t plane the faces, so the joints…

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was “commissioned ” to do a spinning top for a cousin 21st ..it is palm tree with danish oil and wax

My answer to the YoYo challenge. Walnut and maple, my favourite combo.

Fun challenge and still learnt a lot. Here is my spinning top, which does spin well. Made a little stand for it too ?

Only a small top made from sycamore. Decorated with felt tip pens. It took a little while to turn to a shape that would flip upside down and keep spinning

Here’s the 1st top I’ve ever made, it’s maple with a mahogany handle.

turned from the square part of a table leg ..jus boiled linsed oil and microcristaline was from HS

use a piece of green sicamore ..just danish oil and microcristalinne wax

Here are my challenges. A yoyo based on a Retro Duncan design which it turns out to be called “the Butterfly”. 1 Piece Sapele or similar hard wood. Works a…

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My entry for the June newbie challenge. Although quite a simple task i still learnt a lot as I have very little turning experience. Quite happy with it, it spins…

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Here are my challenges. A yoyo based on a Retro Duncan design which it turns out to be called “the Butterfly”. 1 Piece Sapele or similar hard wood. Works a…

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A composite blank left over from another project, mahogany and basswood.

It does not know if its a yoyo or a spinning top.

Made from birch and finished with Hampshire Sheen’s Danish oil.

Piece of oak (rescued from the firewood pile) , approx 2 inch across, finished with Danish oil and a little gloss wax (video of it spinning on Facebook page)

i tried to turn my first challenge i use a segmented piece that glued waiting for the lathe to be delivered

A small top made from some laminated scraps

here is the second trial ..made from a leg of a table …must find a way of getting blank..of there will be no more furniture in the house

Made from Oak using a bowl gouge, spindle gouge and parting tool. Coloured with intrinsic colours and finished with Hampshire sheen white Embellishing wax and Microcystaline wax.

Made from Birch. ColouredWith Hampshire sheen intrinsic colour, ruby end honey. Finished with Hampshire sheen wax. I used 10 mm bowl gauge and a parting tool.