The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Hi! To emboss it is the circular motion 180, yes. Original blanks are made from PETG if i remember right.

I aply the Lighter Fluid shortly before cutting with a cloth, on the warmed up disked. When cutting Cds i also got a load of surface noise, no mather what i tried, also the mentioned youtuber said it wears out the needle more than the blanks. I do not know for sure, since i tried both from beginning...

Hi CutR, I did not measure the temperature, it was kind of trial and error. But not too warm, since i was getting more wow+flutter if so (at least while cutting this was my experience, and also i am afraid to soften the whole machine since it is all plastic :-) ) I saw the recomendation on youtube t...

Has anyone tried available third party blanks for the Gakken Toy Record Maker? I have one too, and since i am curious about blanks i tried different things: CDs - i had really bad results with lots of noise. BUT if you turn the cutting needle 180° you can emboss a groove, with surprisingly good resu...