The guy at the booth showed me why he liked the top grip. First was using the variable speed on the top grip was a one handed operation.it takes 2 on the barrel grip.
Not for me. I rarely use two hands...lotsa balance options with the barrel grip.
““Perhaps then, you will say, ‘But where can one have a boat like that built today?’ And I will tell you that there are still some honest men who can sharpen a saw, plane, or adze...men (who) live and work in out of the way places, but that is lucky, for they can acquire materials for one third of city prices. Best, some of these gentlemen’s boatshops are in places where nothing but the occasional honk of a wild goose will distract them from their work.” -- L Francis Herreshoff