The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Mark,

Can lacquers be played on a regular turntable a few times, or must they be transferred to a stamper in order to make real vinyl?

Well, made some progress this week. I believe my recording head is done, except for the cones, the rods, and the stylus mount. Shouldn't be too hard, but I don't yet have the super-duper $300 ruby cutting stylus yet. Not sure when I will have one. Need to find an alternative. For now, I will be work...

It must look better on the picture than real life. It's not that perfect, but then I can put some finishing touches on what comes out of the RepRap based on known bad machine behaviors. Thanks for the kudos, but I am not quite there yet. I've started looking at the voice coils I have, which are ligh...

Thanks for the bits of advice. I've made a decision to go ahead and give it a go. The attached picture is of a first prototype I am assembling, which is already out of date and is in need of serious mods. The nice thing about having the RepRap is things can be tried and retried without a significant...

Curious - if I make all of the cutter head parts out of ABS plastic using my RepRap 3D printer, will I run into issues with some weird resonance or frequency damping due to using this material? I am talking all of them - the cones, the 90-degree angle that holds the drivers, the connecting rods, the...