The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Fantastic documentation, explaination and work David. It’s great to see that you have developed a viable swarf extraction system. This info is very valuable.

I find it so hard to believe with this decade long vinyl hype that no company has made a sub £500 7” cutter that gives reasonable results out of the box. An upgrade of the gakken cutter is what phonocut should have went for instead.

We recently got one, will look into styli and blanks for it. If PETG does the job then we are good to go. Our 5” discs are £1 already. If it’s 1.5mm we will get them sorted soon. Look forward to giving it a go and seeing what we can get out of it! Excellent. I just checked out your website and your...

Hi, I have not tried to cut using any type of blank. The stock blanks are quite expensive, so I quickly dropped them from any consideration. Spere supplies (e.g. styli and blanks) seem expensive and not so readily available. I don't see why you couldn't use a diamond stylus and do some cutting, but...

Wonderful work Mark. I bought a gakken many years ago but shelved it for a later date to dive down that worm hole. Im an engineer and mostly work at sea and abroad which means I'm not at home much to have time to continually work on things like this. Im more interested in cutting due to wanting grea...

Just received my gakken today. I had a quick look at it but already see a few areas of improvement. Firstly there seems to be a lot of play on the top platter that is connected to the inner pulley. Has anybody tried adding a metal top to the platter to add some more inertia and platter strength? My ...

Strange that this topic has went quiet. The Kickstarter has also went quiet and I would have expected an update after a week at least thanking everyone for the project getting successfully funded.

Congratulations on getting successfully funded! I’m in the 45 B side club. Very smartly thought out tier names and amounts BTW! This is just the beginning. I think much more people will back this once they have had time to digest everything as it is a lot of money for some people who are not massive...

...If there is a significant number of machines out there will be always support from someone.. Excellent response. Supporting equipment for that long shows you have a passion for this and someone the people can trust. Please forgive me for being sceptical, there are too many failed Kickstarters ou...

Well.not decided yet what happens if you hack the lathe.maybe I put in a small plugin that convert all your nice music to most ugly Austria folk music. Or as an option the picture of a wellknown german king of proprietary stli&disks.. just another few lines of code... For sure the machine will know...

You are better with 1.5mm. 1mm is too thin and clear vinyl is a nightmare to DJ with.

I’m a frequent visitor of DJWORX as well. Mark normally waits until the hype has been confirmed before posting anything new. I imagine he is waiting until the Kickstarter launch before making a post. Have a look at these blanks: http://recordblanks.com/product/10-record-blank/ they are black and 1.5...

i guess thats the difference on this project that there are people involved who care about the product and result. This is very true. After some research you all appear to be the right men for the job. This is what makes me very interested in this project. I am currently working in Italy so don’t t...

I saw this in action. It works great and sounds very good (current prototype has a Caruso). The current prototype is just that, and has some glitches, but they arent promising delivery for over 14 months from now, so they have time to fix all of that. And the people involved are all legit. Due to t...

Cheers Mikey V for the information. I am glad to hear that they are considering the possibility to make adjustments to the setup. This makes it a much more professional unit. I wonder what the cutting 'cartridge' is like? A concern of mine is that they stop supporting this after unit after a few yea...

Thank you for spending the time to write so much information. It is great to hear this information from the creator. I am very interested in this. I like the idea of there being possibilities to upgrade parts of it. As I will plan on using this to cut record for mixing are you able to tell me how de...

If this is legit I am wondering if I can use a heated lamp to be able to cut to PVC blanks instead of their proprietary $10 each blanks. They are possibly softer as there doesn’t appear to be a heater on the unit. Once the details are out we will know more. Has anybody experience buying blanks from ...

Thank you for the reply. I am also skeptical about the auto mastering for vinyl. I think it would be better if they had an advanced option where you could see what’s going on and make the required adjustments. But from a mechanical stand point is a unit of this size and simplicity capable of actuall...

Is anyone with the know how able to comment on wether this lathe is actually a realistic idea? It just looks to simple to be true. If it does actually do what is says it will then I will definitely back this. I DJ vinyl and something like this would be a game changer for me. The only concern I have ...