The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Len Horowitz can get you one. What I do for 45 rpm on my k8 is I record the song on a tascam portastudio 414 with the variable tape speed all the way up then when I cut the record I move the tape speed down so that a G note would sound like the next lowest D or C I forget which. The point is that 16...

yeah those steel needles wear out pretty darn fast...i'm pretty sure i trust myself enough with this machine to go a little deeper and get the presto needle. got some new plastic epoxy today because i wanna glue two picnic plates together and put little paper labels in the middle. looks real pro. my...

yeah steel needle cut the hell out of a pressed record. and damn, them picnic plates sound good. and by good i mean total garbage but none of my friends bands sound any better than total garbage so i guess that's okay

the amp is totally clean. sometimes it gives a little radio station here and there when running too long...i'd like a variac to run it properly (although a lot of the old tube stuff performs like 11x better with those 10 extra volts!) i've been getting really nice lo-fi (upper mid-range dominant) cu...

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ok so i spent the last three days setting up the K 8. i said screw drilling out extra dri\/e holes because i could take a piece of drum hardware and screw it down against the blank. plan on getting a real 9/32 clamp but got some real hot cuts after stringing up the ground post (!!!) to the other sid...

that's so great.

i found some old recordio equipment at an estate sale in the boonies and the guy just had regular steel needles from the old victrolas in the cutting heads. i've never tried that but it seems like it would work for simple embossing. also picked up the top plate from an old recordio for ten bucks. mo...

northwest lathe dorks...dude for real. in eugene with a presto k 8.

YES!!!!! ups tracking just told me it's in my town and out for delivery! and it only took TWENTY TWO DAYS!!!! oh yes oh yes i've been in stitches for a week! thanks for the encouragement all, i'm gonna set up a booth at my neighborhood block party cutting on the old recordette still...oh yes

http://www.kulr8.com/news/state/162818156.html

http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/gallery-train-derailment/collection_1032a69f-f972-5754-b3fb-c2810ae3cd5d.html

apparently my lathe has been involved in some horrible train derailment....

hey all, just scored a presto k-8 in real nice lookin condition on a buy-it-now on ebay within the first hour it was posted. didn't even see a tip off in the classifieds here. i'm considering myself a real lucky guy right now, seeing as i live in the same town as mr. alan graves and what not. it shi...

http://cgi.ebay.com/1950-GE-PLAY-TALK-PHONOGRAPH-RECORDER-MINT-BOX-/320737386587?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aad70205b#ht_500wt_945


follow the link

dude a presto arm. might just be what i'm not looking for

http://cgi.ebay.com/PRESTO-CUTTING-ARM-VERY-GOOD-COND-BIN-W-FAST-SHIPPING-/360380169429?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item53e854fcd5#ht_7328wt_924

WOWWWWWWWW

the same seller is auctioning the matching rek-o-kut setup

http://cgi.ebay.com/GRAMPIAN-TYPE-B-D-FEEDBACK-MONO-LATHE-RECORD-CUTTER-PRO-/280704128279?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item415b451517#ht_500wt_945

is 600 bucks worth it?

oh that makes sense- i figured out that to disengage the lead screw and stop the whole cutting process ya just kinda hold the arm up off the record and push down on the butt of the arm with a some bit of pressure and the lead screw disengages the hell out of itself. about the same amount of pressure...

ok i figured it out, thanks, people

yeah as far as I know i'm the only one in the eugene/springfield area who has anything like this. I'm thinking that i can drill a hole in the upper-right corner of the thing and make a little lever that's attached to the tab that keeps the screw engaged so I can just kind of wank the thing outta the...