The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

i have a very unique lathe its entirely diy except for your sapphire and the angle thing was just what i ended up with that worked with tungsten and i cant actually change it unless i saw off my stylus holder from my torque tube and re seat it with jb weld my cutter head is a 45/45 kind of modeled a...

i made this for a homie

i cut a slit for the spindle in my head i can cut 3 inch records

this is basicly what i have goin on

i just packed up most of my gear as im moving next week but id say its around 25 degrees offset from 90(vertical), ive heard peter king does this and his records sound great, i got fairly loud results with the sapphire and excellent clarity, chek that video i posted, super loud and clear and defined...

500g and the stylus tilted back quite a bit I process digitally in real time and my amp is sending 800 watts bridged to the head (800 available not constant just for treble peaks) my cutter head is a standard design but I made it myself using exciters its a stereo head but embossing won't net you tr...

its a steb sly record its a techno jam and it sounds great very even balanced and no fading in sound it has a lead in groove and lead out its a 10''

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdH3lGQtomY&feature=youtu.be

im pretty happy

wow what a difference!!!!! super clean!
ill post a video soon

been following your youtube

what you are doing is pretty darn impressive

big up!

fred

after being inactive with my lathe for over a year im gonna get back at it part time i really enjoyed cutting records for clients it was pretty kool i got offered a job i couldnt refuse (utility worker at an arena)so i stopped altogether check my insta for updates @therealmadstyluspressure cheers fred

hi im fred bissnette and i have a home made lathe and cutterhead i was full time a few years ago and i just started back up part time now, i used to work in the music industry as a recording engineer and live sound technician and before that i was a dj i live in wolfville ns canada and i emboss poly...

have you thought about using exciters? i got some from parts express and made a head and got decent results form embossing im not sure how they would fair for cutting.

thats unfortunate , i wanted to try one of their diamonds

i got pretty good results with tungsten and my diy machine i cut a lot of records for clients(mostly tour merch 7''s) i have been pretty much off the grid for almost 2 years , im thinking of getting back into it and i know i could double what i made doing lo fi cuts if i had something better and i c...

thanks fpr the reply ill try one out

they are polycarb and i find they work ok with maybe slightly higher surface noise than a strait lexan blank

does anyone have an a/b comparison (audio) of tungsten vs sapphire for embossing

is the jump worth it?

cheers

fred

cdrs dont sound too bad either but you can only get about 2 min of audio on them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH11OepEIN0&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR17wGj-qsVhrBiGxNkH3QHH55FzS_nbtOsYvzQF5G9f3Tuc50yC9v0VP90

ive got a king record that a friend had made in the 90s and its very good i use it as a comparison disc to try to get my own work to sound as good, its not easy to make good sounding embossed records but when you get it right its like an alchemist marvelling at his work. king is the godfather of diy...