The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

thanks for posting! a nice little time-capsule. let me know how you get along with your set-up...

as far as negatives of records go: they sound surprisingly like the record themselves as long as you play them backwards. like a user mentioned above you can make a negative of a record with some woodglue and try for yourself. here's a glue negative copy of a record, played forwards and backwards on...

Hey mate, I have the same traversing mechanism with cutter head on a 17” platter mounted to plinth with motor as seen in diagram at bottom of the first image. I have some more documentation, that could attach to the thread. Im yet to make a cut on it as I’m still getting my head around it all. I'd ...

Depends on your definition of affordable, but the cheapest option to try out if it's for you might be getting a gakken record maker from ebay and follow markrob's instructions how to mod it to cut 7" https://www.lathetrolls.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=9675 between the machine, mods and a embossing styl...

wow, now that's what i call service!
thank a lot!!

i just realized your removable stylus holder is aimed towards cones, i have a tungsten embossing stylus from epos, not easy to get it straight with the flat-side of the stylus a 1/4 turn from the screws :roll: DSC00657.JPG funny how these things are so obvious when it's all printed out (for me at le...

thanks for the info and tip towards a good module.
i wondered what those huge capacitors in your video were for - makes your circuit look like it really means business

Hi Markrob
I've put togheter your parts; really cool work!
I was wondering if you could elaborate on the homemade amp you use to drive your head? I might like to copy it.
Curious to try it out now!

markrob wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 01, 2024 12:17 pm

By the time you pay to have the parts printed, you might have paid for the printer.

I went the other route on this and just have everything done, there's loads of semi-pro guys/girls in love with their machines offering their services and i find they do a great job for relatively cheap.

farmersplow wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 31, 2024 6:44 pm

What I post here is intended to inspire others and may also help them with their developments. That's what I'm doing here.

Thomas

And you are very successful at that, so don't worry too much about the peanut gallery and keep up the good work!

I'll be presenting my woodglue records project with help from friends and fellow trolls in Rotterdam on the 27th,
It's a free event so no reason not to come if you're in the neighbourhood: https://worm.org/production/the-demonstration-collection-and-other-weird-record-grooves/

Thanks for posting these parts! It almost seems to me this tread could be pinned in the newbie forum, since it's a cheap but more and more functional entry point into the world of lathes.

You are mistaken, I’m using it normally. It is effecting ALL audio a the machine. So first it worked and then it stopped working? What did you manage to do when it worked? If i understand your story correctly you cut a record and played it back over the internal amp, then you tied plugging the outp...

Here's scans of the documentation of my Royce senior traverser, an Australian overhead that i picked up in the classifieds here not too long ago.

Not exactly what you are talking about, but this comes to mind: https://www.jeroendiepenmaat.nl/portfolio/mes-ep01-frnsbrggn/ The music is recorded using an amplified knife. In a locked groove the knife cuts out the groove, over and over again, untill the original audio is hardly recognizable. 12” r...

Nice results! Can you post a picture of the rest of your lathe as well?

Hey, i also have a dual/clement set up. Although i am also new to this and still in an experimenting stage (i wonder of we got our machine from the same source, actually), i would be happy to exchange on my progress so far. As far as your question about amps: I use a modern power-amp, for this you n...

You can look here:
https://github.com/dn784533/lathe_guide
and here:
https://www.lathetrolls.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=9187
But it's gonna be a tough one to make anything like that from some salvaged printer parts...

Some final adjustments to be made and then test custs over the holidays...

I think I'll make a little moving L-profile that will put variable pressure on the lever by moving it closer/further away with some threaded wire. It won't be very springy, but i guess it'll work something like this: Capture d’écran de 2022-11-10 13-04-02.png with the front rod attached to the lathe...