The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Jesus , just want you to know that as a Rek o Kut owner I am following your recent this restoration of yours with great pleasure as your journey is the most detailed info ive come across thus far about rek o kut cutters and im sure all your ivestigating and probing will help out all rek o kut owners...

Boom! Big up on the results thus far, like grooveguy already said sounds really good already and Im listening thru my smartlphone speakers! I think your over critical cuz your the builder. Great development team you got as well, maximum respect to the knowledge and expertise of Mark Robinson and Joh...

Great news coming from a great machinist, Im hoping that it will be able to mount on my ROK m12! Ive asked about the mounting bracket before cuz I wanted to swap out my stock cutterhead that came with my challenger, didnt order it yet cuz I was waiting on a cutterhead solution that I could afford to...

Starting a war, really? Whats the point? What gain are YOU after IF you win this war? HQ is very subjective thing, is there a law or regulation regarding what is HQ, whos the point of view is the truth? Stop wasting your time worrying, complaining about what others do, just control what you can cont...

Greetings from Taiwan Bryan, just wanna thank you for being so dedicated to the groovescribe project, and mostly for being so kind as to share openly all your triumphs and failures , so that someone like me who is not an experienced electronics guy can have the chance to get myself the basics of how...

Gridlock, oh as far flipping the shank, I do it with my sapphire and its capable of doing a excellent embossing....when I get the styli position sitting just right, but its quite a hassle sometimes, so I prefer the goodturn tungsten cones , but I have never tried turning my diamond styli backwards b...

Gridlock, ok got it, thanks for elaborating a bit more, sorry but english isnt my native language. I feel the same about using computers to record, not that I havent used them before for music production, or occasionaly still do it just for editing audio. Went back to 1/4inch tape 12years ago,but th...

Just want to make clear that I did not intend to make it sound like embossing sounds bad vs cutting.some people emoboss with excellent results, In fact I will also continue to emboss on poly and use the excellent tungsten cones that Farmer John makes, ive also had good results with these GOODTURN st...

I was always suspicious, im in Taiwan and have for many years been working in Japan, so when I first checked out the youtube vids and actually heard his voice, the first thing I thought to myself was this Sakuzi guy doesnt sound at all like he, s Japanese! Then when I saw how he was writingJapan on ...

Greetings to all, couple of mnths ago I finally ordered my first new styli and blanks from MYSHANK, and I gotta tell others that havent tried Stevens diamond styli or soft pvc blanks that you owe it to yourself to try out that combo , after one year of experimenting with embossing on poly with incon...

Taiwan is full of electric bikes, scooters , I dont have enuff expertise on this topic, but those electric motors on the bikes can carry me and someone on the back uphill at the lowest speed or maximum speed, so im guessing this kind of electric motor doesnt loose torque when less voltage is used to...

Hi ive been trying hunt down any kind of infor about the Audax j10 cutterhead which was made for Presto, anyone got one? requesting any info, or experiences with using this head. any idea impedence,F.R? ive already written to Alan Graves for some info,but still pending a reply,so i thought id check ...

that neumann is better off in Japan in the owners bedroom being used as a playback deck than being a neglected relic of the past sitting in storage,uncared for ,and unmaintained. im quite sure thats probably alot more common than finding a cutting lathe in someones bedroom,or in a store as a display...

Em, cool,now im in the know. perfect for me i guess,i am an amateur,and i live in a palm thatch palapa home,would burn down in minutes if i ever caught fire!
Thanks,
Patrick

dont sell it to anyone in Asia, it will never be used to cut record again. now is that fact!? a very commonly repeated attitude in these forums ,“what ever you do dont sell it to Asia”. i really wonder how many perfectly functional recording lathes exists around the world but dont EVER get to cut an...

Greetings all, ive just came across some 61/2inch cardboard fibre blanks ,looks like from 40s or 50s made by Philco. on the label it says slow burning,safety disc,ive seen the old wilcox gay made lacquers that says “slow burning” before, but im a little curious about the meaning of “safety disc”? ca...

hi Greg,im a ROK,Challenger owner,got it pretty recently but have been cutting on it for hrs everyday,tweakin ,adjusting settings ,general experimenting ,making lots of errors is the only way to get to know the machine intimately. Which head do you got on your challenger? i got the Astatic M 41 on m...

Stevie, gotcha,ive have just one sapphire that came with the Astatic M41,sure wish mine came with an audax head instead,will be looking to upgrade the Astatic m41 at some point in the future,but for now its what i got to learn on. Steel styli,well in anticipation for lathe to slowly make its way fro...

by the way ,what was that black stuff that the swan was covered with? swans got feathers,so was it tar?

Soulbear,that post with the heckling was my post,i was really just as intrigued by that head as youare,but i had to hold on to my funds,otherwise i would of bought it just for the sake of using as a learning tool to understand mono cutterhead engineering. if it sounded decent,then it would be an ext...