The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Quick follow up to this, I'm beginning to suspect that the stylus that was shipped wasn't sharpened correctly, as I just tested it with my suitcase lathe, which I know is set up well, was just rebuilt and sounds fantastic with a good stylus (I've used it to cut and emboss a few times), I've never be...

That was a stupid mistake! I meant polycarbonate, but had pvc on my mind. I can try another brand of polycarb that I have, but I doubt that will be any different. I will say, behind the noise, the fidelity was very good on the new cut, probably equivalent to when I would do actual cuttings instead o...

I just changed the stylus on my record lathe from a tungsten, which recorded fairly quietly, albeit at a low low fidelity, to a new sapphire embossing stylus. I have been using PVC blanks, and my machine uses an overhead Rek O Kut M-5, and an Audak tombstone cutter head. I put the new stylus in and ...

I would say I'm getting like a 1 to 1 signal to noise ratio on these, but its probably because I'm recording on the flat finish side instead of the shiny side. The shiny side records weird

I have an Emerson 529 home record cutter, the motor operation seems pretty heavily modeled after a recordio. It has a dual coil shure magnetic cutting cartridge on it (I'm honestly not sure what that would do), which seems a lot better than most of the similar home market record lathes and cutters o...