The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

just found this. thanks mike!

https://youtu.be/mwFdY6e15mI

i just built a prototype arm mount for the 16" Audax KT-16 tone arm my friend found in a shop in Canada.

sounds great, so now i'll get another friend to weld me a proper metal version

I have seen in youtube someone use Turtle Wax in jelly form, maybe you should give it a try. Best, Bob I will look out for some - I was thinking about the cleaning of the plastic first though. I just apply the Turtle Wax spray after peeling off the protective film from my Polycarbonate blanks, but ...

Yup it's the first one in the tin. I bought a juicer and attached a platter to the spindle, so im using that to spin the blank, then i wipe the crc in, followed by the turtlewax, on the high speed spinnint platter. Before I cut I wipe the disk on the turntable to remove any dust Is CRC a brand of a...

any reason why this wouldn't work?

those big shop vacuums like the nilfisk seem to be pretty noisy....

https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Powerful-Vacuum-Cleaner/

i know this is an old thread but.... i'm tempted to look into one of these washing machine motors.... does anyone have any ideas about how to control them?

Serato and Traktor (and most of the DVS companies) have proprietry tones, with extra noises on them partly to make them proprietry but mostly to give them features as listed above (position, direction etc) I've heard of lots of people trying to copy them with dubs, it used to be kind of possible, ju...

I'm also interested in this - I'm looking at building a new mount to accompodate a Caruso cutting head, a motorised dropping/lifting mechanism, and a dashpot. I Don't know if I should be building it really rigid to attach to my Presto 14-B (vaguely similar to 8D design) or if it should have some sor...

i like the sound of some of your mods - I have a similar lathe and some of your solutions i've been starting to tihnk about already so it would be interesting to discuss them

sounds really cool but i'm probably a bit far away!

great stuff - i wonder if you'd be so kind as to share how you have oyur setup calibrated? what weight/angle you use? your results are sounding better than mine, but i think its my brain thats the problem, not the kit.

I'm thinking the same as Boryo - I might have to get one of Jesus' dashpots! unless there is an easy way for me to mod the airpot i have already? I only got it becasue I saw on here that they would send a free sample if you wanted to try it out so i went for it, and I can see how it works, but the s...

We did one with an artist called Redmist from Chile, who put together a library of instrument samples, and we layed it out geometrically on the disc so you can just drop the needle to any of the short tracks on the record and they are all musical loops from different instruments. with a loop pedal ...

that thing looks crazy!

I might be interested in a replica dashpot if I can't make my Airpot work.

Anyone got any advice on how to measure the improvements/benefits? what should I be looking for in the sound when I cut with/without dashpot?

"Cool, know there's quite a few scratch records that are oriented in this way.. is that how you describe your stuff?" yep that's exactly what we do. We did one with an artist called Redmist from Chile, who put together a library of instrument samples, and we layed it out geometrically on the disc so...

thanks for the links! maybe not your thing either becasue it's not exactly PART of the composition as it's done but.... 10shun / Tenshun is on here, he uses his self-cut beats in his compositions. https://10shun.bandcamp.com/ I make records specifically for being used in compositions. The whole side...

i'll gladly send over some funds. thanks for keeping this place running!

The Pith wood seems to be doing a good job for me so far

thanks for your reply :) I found i got more noise with softer pvc planks, but i might have been doing something wrong. I am just using this 5C and Sapphire to learn the basics. I will eventually move on to a Caruso which i have, and the amps are built. I just need a mounting bracket, diamond stylus,...

i've done some CDR's and got decent results. i think theyre polycarbonate.