Get smart curated videos delivered to your inbox.   SUBSCRIBE
The Kid Should See This

Making colorful textured spinning tops on a lathe

Watch more with these video collections:

To create colorful textured spinning tops, Florida-based woodworker Darryl Jones of Dread Knot Woodshop uses special micro texturing tools while turning wood on a lathe. This seven-minute, mostly-wordless demonstration video shares his turning, texturing, and coloring techniques.

texture tool
The textured woodturning tools are by Robert Sorby, an almost 200-year-old Sheffield, England-based company. Jones has previously used water-based markers to color his tops as they spin, but demonstrates with more saturated Sharpies in this video.

adding silver
textured top
Find Dread Knot Woodshop on YouTube and Instagram.

Watch these related top and lathe videos next:
• Tops (1969) by Charles and Ray Eames
• Taiwan’s Spintop Masters
• Turning a brick of melted crayons on the lathe
• Making a baseball bat from rough-sawn lumber
• Making a traditional Japanese wooden Kokeshi Doll

Bonus: More from Sheffield.

This Webby award-winning video collection exists to help teachers, librarians, and families spark kid wonder and curiosity. TKSST features smarter, more meaningful content than what's usually served up by YouTube's algorithms, and amplifies the creators who make that content.

Curated, kid-friendly, independently-published. Support this mission by becoming a sustaining member today.

🌈 Watch these videos next...

Turning a brick of melted crayons on the lathe

Rion Nakaya

Traditional Swedish Woodworking (1923)

Rion Nakaya

Tops (1969) by Charles and Ray Eames

Rion Nakaya

The Tippe Top

Rion Nakaya

The Spiraculum

Rion Nakaya

The science behind spinning 200 hula hoops at once

Rion Nakaya

The precise art of Japanese wood joinery

Rion Nakaya

The praxinoscope-style BusyBody Quick-Pose Animator

Rion Nakaya

The gyroscope

Rion Nakaya