The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

I'm not sure I have heard an example of what embossing with a steel cone should sound like but there seems to be way more surface noise than I was expecting and even just recording with no input is quite loud just listening to the device recording . Regarding this... My ATOM seems very noisy too, e...

which are you cutting with the Presto 8dg or the Westrex 2b?

dubplatecutter wrote:Hi everybody!

does anybody have this machine, and what a converter you use? can i go for a 110v one?

I'm using this one for my Vanrock

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000PC4JL4

Thanks for sharing your setup. What I am asking for is a knowledgeable opinion about whether what I said has any potential for inexpensively solving the problem. Nah that's not my setup.. I'm not sure why the people here who have spent thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars on their setups a...

It seems to me like you could just use this anti-static gun: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/milty-zerostat-3-anti-static-pistol-for/299784-01/, along with a Aerostat PC Ionizing Air Blower and you would be just fine. Am I right, or would you still need anti-static wax? Sure.. it's a good thing you...

Sure the only cost involved is the blank and as gridlock mentions that anti-static wax

juba bc wrote:here I think you have an idea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIjNbc1HDkk&t=69s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQF7X8_Hh-Y

Sounds pretty decent!

thank you very much for the comment here ... this is my great doubt, if these facets exist only for lacquer cutting or for cutting plastic too ... my focus here is only to cut plastics, and I have better results without the facets in that case I'd really love to hear what something cut or embossed ...

Vice Fiori wrote:About the optical adhesive, i dont know where to buy because i find this in brazil, kind of hard to find but not so much

Is the adhesive silicone based? Is it a spray?

doesn't somebody on here do the lathe cutting for duplication.ca? a long time ago I did one job for dup.ca but it looks like they went with a CAN lathe cut business instead. CAN? As far as I know they \are using a presto 8D-G with an upgraded Grampian feedback head and Gotham amp for cutting in hou...

GroundHog0420 wrote: It *does* seem a bit ironic, though, for someone to come into a room called "Lathe Trolls", just to spew vitriol about lathe cuts. Just sayin'....

Actually it seems entirely appropriate, the irony is complaining about it when they do!

2-putting the opto adhesive on print side of paper Is this a product that can be bought online? I did some searches for optical adhesive and didn't really come up with anything, thanks i said it because, dont want to say bad about that guys, but what you said about their work and finish product, i ...

well, did you see my picture discs? it's totally handmade from scratch and by hand, dont look so bad as you mention and paid for it. Yeah I read your description of your process above. It's still unclear to me exactly what materials you are using. If I understand your process you are making a doubl...

not good, i let the paper and adhevisve with space and use a ready blank then i finalize with sharp knife, this days i even do the cut first to make sure that i not going to have problem with the cut or liquid material and finish make the picture to not lost the adhesive I wasn't expecting perfecti...

can you tell (show) why? i never see anything from duplication, through they make a press one I tried the 3m 77 spray glue on a normal vinyl... but it left a lot of residue and it was not transparent anymore. Similar problems as what Ben described.. fogging, visible spots of adhesive.. the first ba...

SUNBEARS wrote:I don't use Souri's stock.

2. Peel off the protective layer of the sticky side of your picture disc blank.

What adhesive stock did you use for the blanks?

BTW. I had some picture discs made by duplication.ca and they used spray adhesive .. I was not happy with the results

BTW I've told that 14grams is appropriate downward pressure for a Presto 6n but have not tested it yet

After studying all the wonderful projects on here, I think I could create a traverse mechanism using a DIY CNC X axis controller by Arduino, with a pivoting recording arm. Can't say I have seen any DIY projects taking that approach over the more standard linear method. Secondly how is the depth of ...

Jay Diggins wrote: I'm located in UK but can travel.

You should travel to Germany and try to get training from Souri and buy one from VinylRecorder.com