throw and spin top plans

Re: throw and spin top plans

Don Henthorn Smithville, Texas

>Pete, I looked for some thing to help. I googled a few up amd you might want to look some more. I found that there is some confusion what a throwing top is. Some of them are calling a top with a dowel that goes in a handle with the string spinning the top before it falls from the handle a throwing top which it obviously isn't. Here is a pic of one shaped like the ones we used when I was kid. As I remember the cord was wound around the base of the top from the bottom up, but I could be wrong. That was a long time ago.

At least this will give you a form to make a pattern from.

Re: throw and spin top plans *LINK*

Fred Holder

>I've made several thousand little spinning tops, finger tops if you will, over the years. The link below will give you some idea of how they are made, plus showing pictures of some. Since the tops pictured at my web site were made several years ago, I've modified my design slightly and now dish the top of the whorl so that it spins better. It takes just a few minutes to make one of these tops. They make great gifts for both young and old.


Link to Spinner Top Page