The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

DVD is finished, contains the material described in first post, for the reasons described. $1 US Dollar + shipping (total $4 in continental US), forum members only, limit 1 copy per person since I make no money. (I don't hold rights; if you want to make further copies for reasons noted in first post...

There are also some interesting systems that never became standard, like a precursor to the audio CD from the early 1980s, the "Mini-Disc digital cassette record", a small record inside a caddy, mastered by physically cutting into a small metal master disc, and played back with a phonograph stylus ...

Process info for creating high-quality lacquer blanks: http://www.eternalgoods.com/temp_draes030.jpg http://www.eternalgoods.com/temp_draes031.jpg Interesting "concept car": The Hydrofeed Lathe, a 1950s prototype with hydraulically-controlled carriage, and a cutterhead pivot on the same plane with ...

The Fairchild vertical/lateral Stereo cutterhead (when used with special electronics, can cut standard 45/45 stereo): http://www.eternalgoods.com/temp_draes017.jpg http://www.eternalgoods.com/temp_draes018.jpg http://www.eternalgoods.com/temp_draes019.jpg http://www.eternalgoods.com/temp_draes020.j...

The best mono cutterhead, the 1954 Westrex 2B: http://www.eternalgoods.com/temp_draes013.jpg http://www.eternalgoods.com/temp_draes014.jpg Westrex 3D stereo cutterhead: http://www.eternalgoods.com/temp_draes023.jpg http://www.eternalgoods.com/temp_draes024.jpg http://www.eternalgoods.com/temp_draes...

http://www.eternalgoods.com/temp_draes001.jpg BOOK REVIEW: "DISK RECORDING VOL.1: Groove Geometry And The Recording Process" BOOK CONTENT: Detailed vintage engineering info on Westrex mono and stereo cutterheads and amps, the Fairchild stereo cutterhead and amp, processes for making high-quality la...

More info on making high quality blanks can be found in the AES book "Disk Recording Volume 1" - some sample pages: http://www.eternalgoods.com/temp_draes030.jpg http://www.eternalgoods.com/temp_draes031.jpg Details on the book, if interested: https://lathetrolls.com/viewtopic.php?t=796&mforum=lathe...

Hello all, I just got a meissner 9-1065 cutter that I'm excited to get up and running. Has anyone out there used one or have any info about them? Thanks! Congrats on your cutter. Here's some info that may be helpful: First you'll want to restore the electronics & mechanics, including especially tes...

Interesting article about the business of scrounging for lathe parts, making repairs, etc, as of 2003: Also an interesting suggestion from Sean Davies, the chief technical contributor to the article - he claims he cut two lacquers from the same batch with a 15 kHz test tone on a Friday, then put one...

flozki wrote:hmm. whatabout to ask the people for the source material.. or just better quality...
ok maybe not easy to get. but from half the sources it should be possible....

flo

Wish I had enough time...

Hey everybody (3rd edit) A recent thread about phase limiting piqued my interest. DrDub has mentioned this monofilter plugin: http://www.nugenaudio.com/monofilter.php Which has been very helpful- thanks! but I'd like to know the mechanics of how phase applies to the cutting head/stylus. I've found ...

I just ordered the supplies you listed. I'm going to take a run at it.. Of course, it might be months before i get around to actually doing anything with it, but i'll let you guys know how it turns out. Thanks K., would love to hear how it goes if you find time. And anyone else. If enough people tr...

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Not exactly on the SAME subject but lots of us have damaged styli. Who could learn the lost art of styli re-sharpening? Can you re-sharpen a standard groove stylus to microgroove specifications. How much would that cost today? Is it possible to re-sharpen metal as well as sapphire? Good point, cutt...

Grooveguy's recent post made me think to go ahead and write this up and post it. HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN LACQUER BLANK DISCS =============================== WHY I'M WRITING THIS: I was going to make laquer blanks myself using my research so far, which I've provided, below. But I just have too many iron...

cuttercollector wrote:Welcome to the group.
Perhaps if you stay around you will get the bug and revive the old beast once again instead of selling it...

Indeed. Or, you'll sell it, then hang out here long enough to start regretting it (voice of experience)

Thanks for the responses, Cuttercollector & Dr. Dub. Yes, very cool looking plugin, seems highly "intelligent", as in digitally recognizing patterns in waveforms. I was originally, as cuttercollector was saying, pondering the design of an analog circuit to do something similar i.e. "shrink the signa...

I've seen from time to time, large quantities of Soundscriber blanks appear on eBay, and they don't fetch all that much. Have you tried getting some blanks and experimenting with just using a plain straight-shank playback stylus? Pathe's early (1910s-early 20s) discs, as well as other hill-and-dale ...

Saw someone's offering this essential book on CD now; thought I'd post a review. (no, I'm not the seller, just think anyone who isn't familiar would be interested; this is the book that helped me most) TITLE: The Recording & Reproduction of Sound, 2nd Ed. AUTHOR: Oliver Read DATE: 1952 (mono) LENGTH...

Question: What is the official technical terminology used for when you process the signal to a stereo cutterhead to limit excessive out-of-phase signal (vertical movement)? If I were looking for a rack-mount analog signal processor to perform this task, or a digital software plug-in, what would it b...