The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Record Industry in Haarlem, the Netherlands have a Neumann DMM-lathe which is still seeing regular use. A friend of mine recently had 2 double and a single 12"s cut & pressed there, and for one of the doubles both records were cut on the DMM. As I did the pre-cut mastering of the records I had the o...

Interesting stuff! Thnx.

I am in the same boat mike... thats a nice machine.. I'll get one like that one day.. ...even more frustrating for me as for me it would geographically be possible to collect it and get the lowdown from the expert. ...what I believe is a very reasonable price considering the amount of work you've p...

AARGHHH.... ...if only you were to sell this a year or so later i'd be jumping up & down like a maniac to take it off your hands. And at what I believe is a very reasonable price considering the amount of work you've put into it too. Oh well, I can only hope to run into as good an offer by the time ...

Yup, they did. There was one for sale on eBay a couple of months ago, and I know of a belgian cutter who has one.

they definitely have similarities but they're not the same..

Way out of my league for now, but there might be someone else here interested in this:
Complete Dubplate & Lacquer Mastering System

selling from the U.K.

... So, I was wondering if there is a way to restore them so they don't skip as much. ... hi there, if I were you i'd try getting them cleaned properly first, as a lot of the noise on the records is probably just dirt that's been piling up in the grooves, and as time passes it can get well stuck in...

... On a related topic, I have never seen much about the development of Japan's lathes. In my quest for info about Sovjet-used lathes I happened to come across an article on Denon's U.S. site where they mention manufacturing lathes for the japanese market: In 1939, the company developed Japan's fir...

Hi there, I've been browsing this board for a while now, as i've been looking into starting to cut discs for some time, but I never had a reason to register.. and now I do, as I have a question. As I run a couple of small independent record labels (largely because it allows me to release my own musi...