The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

1) I think --if you've never worked with a record cutting lathe-- it makes sense to work with a working one before trying to build one from scratch. I'm consistently amazed that people are attempting to reinvent the wheel, or to work more-or-less blind. BUT....that's just me. It does appear that on...

Yes I have seen both ov yr works, and both are FANTASTIC, and fascinating... Yet not small enough for my app. Though I shall still try to study the numbers. I'm more mechanical, as opposed to technical, so it's a bit challenging for me to grasp that aspect... (it's the weak link for such, and NEED t...

p.s. is this http://www.ebay.com/itm/INTERVOX-Transducer-Acoustic-40mA-6VDC-2048Hz-2-Pin-16mm-NEW-3-PER-/200922710677?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ec7ed4295

what is inside a guitar pick up?

Thnx Todd- Size is the issue with me. What kind ov transducer would you suggest, That is tiny, yet powerful enough to etch flexi? Would a guitar pickup work? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Clip-on-Acoustic-Electric-Guitar-Pickup-Audio-Transducer-Amplifier-12-Hole-1-4-/361155082276?pt=Guitar_Accessories&has...

I've seen some tiny hobby one, like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/exploring-kid-creat-toy-scientific-experiment-game-model-electric-bell-doorbell/331146661412?_trksid=p2045573.c100033.m2042&_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20131017132637%26meid%3D7461da84800b43dea0fa75408145...

Hello great minds & well versed pro's- Might I pick yr minds please... My interest has mostly been focused on dictation machines, due to their size. And I wish (at first to mod) to build a mini lathe... I have some edison voicewriters (spinning well) and several soundscribers... I am curious about u...

A thought just came over me as I was taking apart an old landline tel. I was told, when I was young, and was into shocking myself (putting the cord in my mouth, 9v ain't got 'jack' in comparison) that these things used allot juice. I tried to activate it with sound (simply from my computer) yet it d...

Hi cosmO_O

That is a really nice rig you have made, very nice indeed...

Interesting link too...

Cheers

Hello all- I am just coming back to the forum after a year + absent. I was hoping to find a wealth ov progress upon this technique, yet see I must have killed this thread? Any new developments? I do notice more people trying to diy press, has that taken over as the better way? Or is it just what has...

I had to put this project aside for a spell, yet am looking to try my hands at it again.

Thanx again for this wealth ov info diamone...

:idea: :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea: OMG NOW I am struck with a "New Music" idea (I am a NM freak). An entire composition, made up ov multiple performers (each with a dif. strip) playing strip in sequence. and ov coarse multiples being played at the same time for an orchestral sound... W...

Way cool indeed. VICTROLAGUY- could you make something like this yrself? I mean if you wrapped a smooth piece ov plastic (such as the backside ov a wiretie, not the teeth side) around a tube (in such a way) that fit on yr vic... I guess also- this just struck an idea with me :idea: custom diy strip ...

DAAAAAAMN this is kool!!! - As I first started reading the thread, I wondered if I was thinking right as to what it would do (didn't see pics till sec. pg.). Then I listened to the first posted wave, and had a flash back to my commodore dayz, when you could make you disc drive 'sing' -was a fun thin...

cool... Yeah I was being silly... I meant like blow it up, as in make it happen and explode with production. Thus you being successful... That's so awesome you got that for so cheep... And what a great thing, getting it from a laundry mat... May you 'clean up' XP I'd imagine, you being under queens ...

Maybe some day you should publish your findings... Seems ur on yr way to success...

-cheers

I understand the holidays and such. Yet I am excited to know the price and see the finished product... PLEASE?!?!

what a Lethal Device leethal

Please post when you are done... This is VERY interesting...

Also I am curious, even though a friend, what was/is the cost (supplies & labor)...

Best ov luck at blowing up yr label XP

My DIY thought (since I am also a sculptor & machinist) was to take a potter wheel and attach a lathe motor to it... That's how I am figuring to make mine (once I have the space. Maybe/Hopefully this year). Talk about torch and Inertia... Also from what I've seen ov the old big cutters. They pretty ...

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https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=62 ... 8710514054

Ahhh it's actually
629278710514054 - why does it hide those numbers? weird

I ran into this issue because I can't load FB on this browser (and I don't care that I can't).

Progress is nice

Looks wonderful...