NOS Presto blanks

[Curley-Ann]

Hey there--
Does anyone have any NOS Presto blanks they wouldn't mind selling..?
I'm wanting to do a recording project, and the old Prestos have a nice "swish" sound to them in playback...it will make the recording sound "older" than what it truly is...

[Steve E.]

Not sure I'd recommend that strategy! Old blanks can get HARD and wear out a sapphire cutting stylus in minutes. Says the voices of very sad experience. It's not like using old tape or anything.

EDIT: I see you were asking about this a couple years ago (http://www.lathetrolls.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4521&p=27709#p27709) and had a friend who had successfully done such a thing. So hey! Your Mileage May Vary. I never tried heating an old blank....it is quite possible there are tactics for getting good results that I have not explored.

[Curley-Ann]

Well...
If it means anything...
A friend of mine did have some Prestos that, a couple of years ago, he had cut for me--he put a classic radio program on them for me, and they turned out fairly well...I still play them...so, there could be schools on both that they're ok and not ok...
I guess it would just depend on the CONDITION of the discs themselves...
(He also...just for experimental purposes...laminated cardboard poster board discs and did some 78 "tests" on his old Recordio machine...the results sounded like recordings that would have been made back in the early 1900's-!)

[dubcutter89]

Maybe useable...



http://www.ebay.com/itm/PRESTO-10-GLASS-BASE-RECORDING-DISC-BLANKS-NOS-/181683949654?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a4d351056