Simonelli spinning top Nr. 56

This spinning top has the same design of the Nr. 55, with the difference that here I added the balance screws in the flywheel. I used stabilized poplar burl for the wooden parts of the top, and I added to it a decorative ring made of pink opals.
The mine are precision spinning tops, designed for clean, precise movements, and for longest spins. The tips are replaceable and they can be resharpened. The balance screws are for to fine tune the balance of the top.
The recessed tip, the special carbide contact points and the plexiglass shroud, which is for to direct the air flows in a way to reduce the air drag, allow for spin times up to one hour.
My tops are refined, a bit extreme, and a bit delicate: they are not suitable for children.
Who doesn't know my tops and wants to learn more, can see this video:
• One hour barrier broke...
Some information about the balance screws:
• Simonelli spinning top...

[@lex1633]

Such a beauty! 🤩

[@iacoposimonelli7191]

Thank you, Lex. I too like it, and now that I discovered it, probably I will use it again, with some different color also, maybe blue, or green, I will think to it.

[@TaoSpin]

Exquisite! A precious jewel and a rocket ship in one!

[@iacoposimonelli7191]

Thank you !

[@hiper_tops]

Wow! The poplar is amazing

[@iacoposimonelli7191]

Yes, burls are often nice, and dyed stabilized wood is interesting, you can find colors unusual for wood. Also, it is not difficult to turn. But it's quite expensive !

[@nicolaspelissier3968]

I love it! Are the tip and the base both carbide?

[@iacoposimonelli7191]

Thanks ! The base is carbide. The tips are replaceable, there are HSS, (for less wear out), and carbide, (for longer spins) tips.

[@nicolaspelissier3968]

@@iacoposimonelli7191 very cool. I experimented with a carbide point on one of my tops but after it drilled a hole in my glass tabletop, I went back to carbide balls.

[@iacoposimonelli7191]

@@nicolaspelissier3968, I too had a similar experience. Metal spiked tips are not good on glass. But I found a way to spin a 200 grams top with a spiked HSS tip on a glass surface with no problems; the spinning surface is a large flat mirror, almost horizontal but not perfectly horizontal; so the top is not steady but it slowly walks on it while spinning, (by 20 or 30 centimeters in half an hour), in this way it has not the time to start drilling a hole.

[@jameswgv]

Bellissimo, dove posso acquistare uno per me?

[@iacoposimonelli7191]

Grazie! Contattami su Instagram, (simonellispinningtops), o su ITopSpin, il più grande forum sulle trottole.