Stupid little top

[John Coloccia]

I hardly ever post projects, but this one is just so cute I had to. Last night I went to a Christmas party. The host had a young son, and I turned him a top out of olivewood just for fun. One of our other friends saw it and said, "Hey, can you make one for my daughter? How much?". I said, "Sure...I'll do it for fun, nevermind. What kind of wood would you like?". She said, "Uhm, can you make it pink?".

Uh, no I can't. LOL. I told her I'd get as close as I can.

And then I run across this piece of pink ivory at Woodcraft this morning...

Behold. The pink, spinny top thingy for my friend Sarah.

http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac335/jcoloccia/Random%20Projects/photo.jpg

I never would have guessed I'd find pink wood. Meh...who needs stain?

[Paul Saffold]

from pink elephants, right?

[John Coloccia]

LOL. A couple more glasses of wine and pink elephants will fit right in.

[Michael Short]

LOL !!! A couple more glasses of wine and it won't just be the top spinning. :)

[Bruce King]

cool,

I noticed the bahama blue granite, rare stuff around here, first time I have seen it anywhere except in my kitchen and I inspect houses for a living.

[Andrew Hughes]

Nice piece of pink ivory.cool looking top how big is it?

[Keith Westfall]

OK, I may be slow - how does it work???

[John Coloccia]

The point is recessed in a little hollow under the "skirt", so when it's spinning it looks like it's floating.

[John Coloccia]

Nice piece of pink ivory.cool looking top how big is it?

Not very big. I forget now but it's probably about 1 1/4" in diameter. I believe it was turned from a 1.5" square. Basically, I made it as big as I possibly could out of the biggest piece of pink ivory I could find.