BilletSpin Jester Bronze Version 3 Top Review

Here’s another BilletSpin Jester Bronze Top (Version 3), but this one’s full bronze! Read on for some pictures and thoughts!

Official Specs

Here’s a link to the BilletSpin Jester Bronze Version 3 Top product page.

Short Review

I happen to love brass, and bronze is close enough. Has that nice “red metal” look but very little (if any) of that smell. The design is still great, and the spins are still wonderful!

Long Review

Package

A metallic spinning top rests on a black fabric pouch with the word BILLETSPIN printed in bold white letters, all placed on a weathered wooden surface.

A gold-colored spinning top rests on a black pouch with BILLETSPIN printed in white letters, placed on a weathered wooden surface.

This top shipped in a BilletSpin pouch, inside a bubble wrap pouch. In this case, the pouch makes for a good way to carry the Jester, too – the stem doesn’t get in the way, and the Jester is very tiny.

Price

These are going for (what I consider to be a low price of) $75 on the BilletSPIN website. They should be available tomorrow here.

Look

These look practically gold, which is a nice thing. They’re one-piece designs, aside from the ball bearing press-fit as a spin contact.

These are a “three spoke” design.

The body, which is just one piece (save the spin point) has smooth edges.

And when I say smooth edges, I mean it. At one point during testing, I wanted to stop during a spin and grabbed by the edges. It’s so smooth I couldn’t even feel it spinning.

The top of the stem, interestingly, is hollow. I don’t know the design logic behind this but I imagine it has something to do with rotational weight (in this case, putting more of the weight on the waist.)

The grip area is pleasantly not directional. Just some deep grooves, with a little offset from each neighbor.

The bottom is also very smooth!

Feel

I said this above, but I’ll say it again. The widest parts of the Jester Version 3 are so very smooth. During a spin they’re so smooth you can grab it without even being able to tell it’s spinning.

The grip area is the opposite, in a great way. Plenty of grip for maximum force to be applied to a spin, and when stopping a spin, these grooves are deep enough to force a nice “vrrrrrrrrrrr” on your fingers.

One thing of note with the Bronze version, especially after having held the Tungsten Copper version. It feels very light. It’s not really (comparatively) but it’s just that the Tungsten Copper is so heavy. Also, a standard feature of Jester’s is having so much of the weight on the periphery, which I think helps with rotational weight and spin times.

Spin Times

I spun this guy a bunch. I’m no master spinner by any stretch, and I don’t even have a spin station. But I was pulling some pretty good times, with not all that much effort.

These shots are all just for the photos though…. on a soft wood surface you’ll expect the top to act funny.

I was able to notice a bit more judder on the bronze vs the tungsten copper.

And isn’t the backside of a $2 bill just fantastic?

Here are some actual spintime tests and the results are as follows (including one full video!):

Spin	Time (m:s)
1 (concave glass)	10:38.39
2 (concave glass)	10:18.86
3 (concave glass)	10:48.19
4 (concave glass)	10:40.87

I stopped testing on anything but my concave glass, which is as close to a spin station as I have. It’s pretty good for it, even if it’s not an official piece.

The contact point for spinning is a tungsten carbide ball bearing.

Maintenance / Disassembly

There’s nothing that can be disassembled on the Jester Version 3. It’s a one-piece body, and the tungsten carbide bearing is press-fit in.

Keeping the top clean should provide a long lifetime.

Size

Officially: Weight is 29 grams. 1.05” diameter.

A two-dollar U.S. bill lies flat on a weathered wooden surface with a round brass object, possibly a lock part, placed on the upper left corner of the bill.

A gold wedding ring rests upright on its side in the center of a two-dollar bill, which is placed on a weathered wooden surface.

A person’s left hand holds a small, round metal object with a central hole and concentric rings, against a blurred outdoor background with green grass.

A person with fair skin holds a small, metallic, cylindrical object with a vertical peg in the center, positioned on the palm over a blurred green and brown background.

A person holds a small, round metallic object in the center of their open palm. The background is grassy and out of focus. The text ZEROAIR.ORG is visible along the side of the hand.

Below is the Jester version 3 with my favorite flashlight, the TorchLAB BOSS (custom-engraved!)

A small, silver-colored, intricately engraved flashlight stands upright on a wooden surface next to a metallic clip mechanism lying flat, with a blurred background.

Close-up view of two cylindrical objects standing upright on a wooden surface; the left object shows a metal ring with a central sphere, while the right object reveals three yellow circular components inside.

And here’s the Tungsten Copper (left) with the bronze. Same item, just different material.

Two small, round metal objects with propeller-like centers are placed side by side on a wooden surface. One is copper-colored, and the other is gold-colored. The background is blurred.

Two metal mechanical pencil tips, one rose gold and one gold, positioned horizontally and facing each other on a wooden surface, with the background blurred.

Two metal gears of different colors, one rose gold and one gold, are standing upright on a wooden surface with a blurred background. The text ZEROAIR.ORG is faintly visible on the left side.

And below with another of my favorites, the Vanguard.

Two small circular metal objects with intricate designs are positioned side by side on a weathered wooden surface. The object on the left has a braided pattern, while the one on the right has a more open, geometric design.

Two metal spinning tops, one with a patterned bronze finish and the other with a smooth silver finish, are standing upright on a weathered wooden surface. The background is blurred.

Conclusion

What I Like

High-quality build
Amazing spin times
Very pocketable, and small
Extreme grip for excellent spins
Very good price

What I Don’t Like

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I have a few more similar items that I’ll be posting in the coming weeks. If there’s anything more or specific that you’d like to see, please let me know in the comments!

Notes

This top was provided by BilletSpin for review. I was not paid to write this review.
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