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- Fri May 10, 2024 4:09 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: 19th Anniversary coming up! Please help keep this site alive.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 964
Re: 19th Anniversary coming up! Please help keep this site alive.
Just made my donation! We already embossed 25 records today, so I donated twice that. This forum has been invaluable for when I'm deep-diving a relatively small issue with my lathe and don't feel like bugging @piaptk. I'm also having a lot of fun chatting with you all. To many more years of Lathe Tr...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:58 am
- Forum: Our Cutters and their work
- Topic: Any fun RSD releases?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 930
Re: Any fun RSD releases?
Hey @Jccc, that's a really beautiful package! Love the color scheme of purple-white-glitter.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:24 pm
- Forum: Our Cutters and their work
- Topic: Cats on My Mind
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4214
Re: Cats on My Mind
Thank you, Mark--if only we'd known that song for the evening's playlist!
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:23 pm
- Forum: Our Cutters and their work
- Topic: Any fun RSD releases?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 930
Any fun RSD releases?
Hello fellow trolls, Is anyone putting out anything fun today for Record Store Day (or, as we call it here at Displaced Snail, Record Snail Day)? I've had a hectic day making releases materialize out of thin air, and I'm exhausted, but I pulled off a good spread! Today, I released: - Basement Blende...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:10 am
- Forum: Our Cutters and their work
- Topic: Cats on My Mind
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4214
Re: Cats on My Mind
We made a playlist for the event that contained both Cat People and a couple Kifness songs, haha. Once we started digging, it was pretty easy to fill a three hour playlist with cat songs. Other favorites include: Aesop Rock's Kirby, Hot Chip's Alley Cats, Kitty Kat Fan Club's You Can Sleep on Top of...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:51 pm
- Forum: Our Cutters and their work
- Topic: Cats on My Mind
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4214
Re: Cats on My Mind
Thanks everyone! Just a bit of fun, we only made 30. The song is "Cats on My Mind," a little ditty I wrote with a friend of mine about a week ago in time for the launch party. I had bronchitis, so it sounds pretty weird, but still fun, haha. @piaptk you've created a monster. @phoenix Favorite cat: N...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:41 pm
- Forum: Newbie Forum
- Topic: Complete Noob Here
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1155
Re: Complete Noob Here
I can...fourth? fifth?...the idea to work with @piaptk. I attended lathe cut camp and it was awesome, and I've now bought two lathes from Mike, a 6D and a Rek-O-Kut Challenger. Love 'em both and use them at the same time pretty often. FWIW, both are mono heads, and I haven't noticed much difference ...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:34 pm
- Forum: Plating and Pressing
- Topic: LP Stamper request
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2684
Re: LP Stamper request
that mounting screw looks so beautiful with the stamper. I have a couple stampers I've been meaning to frame for the artists, maybe I'll try to whip up something similar!
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:58 am
- Forum: Our Cutters and their work
- Topic: Cats on My Mind
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4214
Cats on My Mind
My wife has a new anthology book called Cat Party! that's just come out, so we're having a book launch at a bar here in Philly. I whipped up a few special edition discs with a song about my favorite cats as an extra piece of merch, LOL!
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 8:35 pm
- Forum: Newbie Forum
- Topic: PRESTO K-8 NEWBIE IN FLORIDA
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1270
Re: PRESTO K-8 NEWBIE IN FLORIDA
Hey Ryan! Welcome to the world of lathes. I'm still new myself--I've only been cutting since October--but I got started by attending lathe cut camp with Mike Dixon. For what it's worth, I just got my second lathe, LOL, so it's really sticking! I'd recommend reaching out to him, he does Tech Support ...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:33 am
- Forum: Experimenters' & Innovators' forum
- Topic: The farmer and his plow - When I set out to build a record cutter
- Replies: 277
- Views: 6500740
Re: The farmer and his plow - When I set out to build a record cutter
Hello Thomas, just popping in to say this is all very impressive! I'm lost when I try to actually follow what you're doing, though quite interested in following along and learning more about it. It's too bad I only got my first lathe late last year - I was a vendor last spring at Fanzineist Internat...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 9:11 am
- Forum: Our Cutters and their work
- Topic: On the Record Poetry
- Replies: 4
- Views: 22927
Re: On the Record Poetry
Hey @whitricketts, thanks so much for the kind words! I *nearly* sold out in the Kickstarter, but just added a few bundles to my website =D I'm doing another Kickstarter launching in March for the next book, though, that will have a few subscriptions for the whole series. https://www.displacedsnail....
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 9:47 pm
- Forum: The Reference Archive
- Topic: PRESTO History on the web
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6756
Re: PRESTO History on the web
Wow, really great site, thanks for sharing (and stewarding)!
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 8:30 pm
- Forum: Our Cutters and their work
- Topic: On the Record Poetry
- Replies: 4
- Views: 22927
Re: On the Record Poetry
Thank you, Thomas! It's been a lot of fun rediscovering what a record can be for me =D
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: Our Cutters and their work
- Topic: On the Record Poetry
- Replies: 4
- Views: 22927
On the Record Poetry
Hey everyone! Thought you might get a kick out of a new project I'm co-curating this year with my partner Katie, On the Record Poetry . We're doing 6-8 poetry releases over the course of the year by different poets. Each release has a chapbook and is accompanied by a disc of some kind: the first rel...
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 9:07 am
- Forum: Our Cutters and their work
- Topic: 'THE ROUND' a large scale kinetic/sonic installation artwork
- Replies: 5
- Views: 22185
Re: 'THE ROUND' a large scale kinetic/sonic installation artwork
Wow, that is extremely cool - I'd love to sit in that room for awhile to feel what the sound is like. Great work! And very cool metal work, @farmersplow I'm working on my first installation piece involving lathe embossing, but I've only had the machine for about two months now so I have to make sure...
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 11:22 am
- Forum: Classifieds & tip-offs
- Topic: Any use for 3.15" polycarb discs?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 45503
Any use for 3.15" polycarb discs?
Hello all, I recently had a few sheets of "0.06 (1.5mm) polycarb cut and figured I'd have a bunch of 3.15" discs cut from the scrap just in case my machine could emboss onto them, but alas, no such luck. Anyone have any use for them? I'll probably hang onto some just for fun or craft stuff, but if y...
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 3:33 pm
- Forum: Newbie Forum
- Topic: Removing the film (+ my first releases, woo!)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6057
Re: Removing the film (+ my first releases, woo!)
That worked! I tried using a penknife to cut a tiny piece of the plastic, and it worked so well I went and did it to the next ten records I had to emboss before even peeling the easy side and it helped a lot. And the cut is so shallow and near to the edge it's no danger to the music. Thanks!
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 2:16 pm
- Forum: Newbie Forum
- Topic: Removing the film (+ my first releases, woo!)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6057
Removing the film (+ my first releases, woo!)
Hello lathe friends, Question: Is there some industry secret to removing the film from polycarbonate discs? One side is always easy because the saw leaves some strands hanging off to grab, but the other side really disrupts my flow making 7" records when I can't get a hold of the film anywhere. Any ...
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 7:57 am
- Forum: Newbie Forum
- Topic: Any members of vinylengine?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10894
Re: Any members of vinylengine?
PM'd, thank you, Mark!