The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Hi Squirrel Monkey,

Are you cutting at 33 rpm? And playing back at 78rpm on a different machine? Sound quality is great. Is this cutting or embossing?

Thanks for your observations. Your trick about turning the stylus 180 and embossing really salvaged the Gakken for me, given that every cut I did would skip even on the supplied blanks. Then I killed the two supplied styli trying to cut Blanqs. I did manage to make it emboss by weighting the cutter ...

Thanks everyone. First post, been lurking hard for a couple of month since I put my Gakken together. First cut sounded was better than I expected, but it's all been downhill from then :/ Skipping, gouging, hearing, lighter fluid, none have been as good as they first cut. In fact, most have been comp...