The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

well, ended my day on a highnote, didnt even get the rubber bushings,first attempt with just strapping the motor in its place with strong nylon pull ties,old mounts and all ,looks real thrird world,but it worked! Hooked up an old mono cart,and played back the record without wobble,kept speed on both...

Stevie,thanks for the tip. here is the motormounts in its present state. now ive seen some Lord rubber mounts on ebay,not sure about those,cuz they are just round,but the ones i see on mine look similar,but have a brass caseing. do i just pop out the round rubber bushings ,pop back in new ones?,and ...

ematchapterv, let me see if i got it right, You mean its not feasible? could easily fuck up a good cut with an untrackable lead out? in other words,the promo is misleading stating the the run ins and outs could be done easily? starting get the feel that the challenger i got with the M12 and Astatic ...

hello , Rek o kut challenger arrived today,dirty and not as nice as the picture i saw online,but altleast ive got some basic tools to start with,and i started cleaning all the parts right away after unpacking it, now first problem popped up right away when i tried to unmount the motor for cleaning, ...

Well,should recieve my Challenger any day now been reading the rek o kut catalog about the unit. I was always under the impression that the M12.overhead could not do run ins&outs, just a locked groove because its lack of a hand crank, but in the catalog ,it states that “spiral grooves are possible,p...

love what your doing,cant get more authentic vintage sound than that,sounds way better than alot of the embossed poly lathe cuts that i hear on youtube. right choice of tools for the right kind of sound,a very good match,your singing sounds great aswell( Sweets,your karaoke track)! it seems like you...

nice machine to have ,regardless of its inside out cutting or outside in. if its functioning like its designed to ,you have a nice piece of history to add to your collection! i hope you wont chop up a functioning cutting lathe,playing inside out cuts on a record player is pretty cool in itself, you,...

could it be that the previous user/owner dipped it in tar for damping experiments?
the more i look at it ,reminds me of the passenger seat cushion from an old Vespa!

Nice results! i like the mod you did to the recordio,looks like a poormans presto k8, i like the minimalist look to it as well.
very cool,
Patrick

looks quite impressive,very solid aswell. gonna hit you up for one of those rek o kut m12 cutterhead mounting adapters soon,gonna find a replacement head first.
great machine work.
maximum respect!

another question ,does anyone know what the hell this is? its listed on ebay,with no info. im kinda curious,cuz im cutterhead shopping,and this one i can afford! I thought my Astatic MI 41 that came with my Rek o kut was the ugliest cutterhead ever,but now im not so sure, but if it functions and sou...

hello,im curious about this RCA MI 4896 cutterhead ,anyone got any specs. info ,or better yet experience cutting with this head? what kinds of results that can be achieved with it? ive looked and searched in the older posts,aswell as on the net and came up dry, so any info would be helpful! Thanks, ...

Hi Tyler, great little vid you put up,you make it all seem so simple! Nice set up.
Big up from Taiwan,
Patrick

Maistrow, just curious about your comment

Maistrow wrote:Perfect.
It would not be good if this stuff was sent to Asia.

,can you elaborate a little ,i want to know why it would be bad,if it was sold to someone in Asia?
curious in Taiwan,
Patrick

happy 10, im pretty new here,but i will give a big thank you to all the people in these last 10years putting up,and sharing so much experience in the art,that someone so new to this like me can getso much info relatively fast by reading posts in the forum from these last 10 years of contributors. co...

concretecowboy7,petermontgom,Silitoe,thanx for clearifying everything for me!

so many errors ,dis info in my original post! John Gary Williams got back to me and appoligised for getting things mixed up and leading me to post up wrong info! the photo is infact taken in the 70s,in Ardent studios,not at Royal studios of the great Willie Mitchell ,and yes its still there,and that...

Thanx for the tips Peter!

this Royal studio,not Stax by the way,i wonder if its the same lathe tho,cuz Stax closed down in the 70,s i think.

was in a rush typing, cuz i was writting to John Williams,but the man with the Stetson is William C Brown ,not John G Williams,but the were both original Mad Lads. VMS for sure,im really curious where it is now ,and who owns it, is it still cutting ?