The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

https://www.lathetrolls.com/e-l-scott_phonautograph.jpg Dear Reader, If you are here, you are a probably a recent or longtime participant in The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls , the grassroots worldwide chat forum devoted to all aspects of record cutting and pressing, professional and experimental....

Update: I've spent countless hours on the phone with Bluehost over the past 5 or 6 weeks. The problem gets better, then worse again. Their technical support lines are excruciating, and feature 2 songs on endless repeat. The songs have not changed in years. They are assuring me that they are going to...

Hi All. The site was intermittently unavailable all morning. I'm just as frustrated with this situation as you are. I think it's time to move this board to a dedicated server on a different hosting site. This is going to be a major headache. For the record, I've been using Bluehost, and I've seeing ...

Steve Espinosa is a coward who has the whole forum armed in his favor, being able to edit and block users from the topics. This forum is not really frequent as you can see but even so I like to read things and if I am answering it is because it is necessary, the truth is that this whole forum is fi...

Jonathan, make some decent products and there won't be an issue. Interesting...! I didn't know people I'd marked this way could still post.

The contributors to this thread who show up as yellow-colored members are now "persons of interest" -- which is my way of saying they may be functional sockpuppets of Angulo/Jonathan Mejía/ Vortex. oriana Teeven roberto123 This may be unfair in the case of the latter two; Teeven especially seems to ...

I'm moving this topic to our scam section.

Vortex is from a guy who has a history of scam products. BEWARE.

Changing the title to help when people google the current scam.

How is it now? Seems better?

Hi all. We are getting a lot of "Bad Gateway" pages right now, site going up and down. I don't know why, and neither does my server company (Bluehost). I'm on it. Hopefully it will be resolved soon.

Stickied!

I'm unsticky-ing this topic. I figure, it's been a year.

Another tribute:

https://positive-feedback.com/audio-discourse/tim-de-paravicini/

well, that's a legit counterargument, as either buyers or sellers CAN be scammers, or even just incompetent.


What scenario protects both fairly?

Dear all, You all may have noticed that there is a coding system to the avatars here. Default is a black record player icon. Moderators are green. Site sponsors are maroon (updated) or blue (lifetime). and so on. I have created a new avatar for our members who have passed on. They are now a white re...

Tim de Paravicini, Rest In Peace. He was a member of our extended community. I will admit that I am unclear on whether he was an actual poster on the Lathe Trolls site. https://www.stereophile.com/content/tim-de-paravacini-rip Please contribute your knowledge and remembrances of him to this thread.

At the edge of the New Year, let me strongly suggest something, from my limited understanding: Use eBay and Paypal, or the equivalent services available in your corner of the planet. Do NOT make payments using Paypal's "Friends and Family" feature, as this disables the features that protect both cus...

Another note: I regret, and apologize, that it took so long to announce this here. This is not my way. I feel it behooves us in general to get the word out earlier rather than later, for the sake of others who need to grieve and want to take direct part in such proceedings. I had initially held off ...

Dear all, It is with great sadness that I announce --belatedly-- the passing of our beloved member Alan Graves, who posted here as Prestofan . Alan died on August 19, 2020, weeks short of his 91st birthday. He was dear to me and to a great many to those of us on this forum. He was THE world expert i...