The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Are you using my sapphire embossing cones or are you using a backwards cutting sapphire?

If your volume is too hot on an embossed disc it will skip and skate on a cheap crosley.

Hey everyone, if you are in the NYC area, some of us Trolls ate meeting at a restaurant/bar in Queens at 7:30 tomorrow, Sunday, June 26,2022. DM me for the location.

I do have one for sale right now in the US. Dm me.

Pretty neat. Never seen a gold badge on those. Will be worth more if you an ohmeter on the leads to confirm there is continuity. Should read around 4.7 ohms. Be worth even more if you run audio theough it using one side of your stereo receiver and do the “cup test” (put a thin carpet nail where the ...

He has taken money from, and then ghosted, a lot of folks on here. Both as record customers and in the cutting community.

As far as i know, nobody has heard from him in at least 5 months as of May 2022.

He disappeared after taking $4000 from me for gear he never sent. Many others on here got grifted by him. It’s a shame, because at one point he was a valuable member of the community.

They are standard polycarbonate, so if you have had luck with clear or black polycarbonate, this would be the same. I personally only do diamond cutting with Myshanks blanks, when i do diamond cutting at all. I only guarantee these blanks to work with the embossing method, so try any other type of n...

I've got some Smoke Grey 1.6mm (1/16") Smoke Grey Polycarb blanks for sale in all standard sizes at : https://www.recordlatheparts.com/collections/record-blanks I'm also in the process of adding a LOTTTT of new products. Some are up there now, just need photos, etc but a lot of others will be coming...

boryo wrote: ↑

Tue May 10, 2022 1:47 am

Great! Any chance to upload a rip? Im curious of what other people consider 'a little background noise'. Thanks!

Best,
Bob

The background noise he is getting is a cut problem with his diamond setup, NOT an artifact from the cutting head. The TKV cutting head doesn't introduce any extra noise.

They arent great. Always low volume. Ive got several in the graveyard if you need parts.

If you haven't already read it, there is a lot of starter info here: https://www.lathetrolls.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=8328 I buy, restore and sell lathes as my primary business... Just got back from installing one in Bristol and one in Edinburgh last week. Unfortunately I don't have any in stock rig...

I sell 3.5" matte paper labels (6 to a page A4) at https://www.recordlatheparts.com/collections/record-supplies/products/printable-center-labels

I also have 4 to a page 4" labels that I need to put on the site soon/

Since May's Lathe Cut Camp sold out in 24 hours, before I had even posted about it on social media or through the email list, and I've had a lot of interest since then, I'm going to offer another Lathe Cut Camp July 23-25. This will also probably sell out quickly, so if you want to come, don't wait....

Buy a 100g (1 newton) spring scale on Amazon. Put the needle down on the disc… lift up the head using the spring scale… right at the moment the needle lifts off the disc, look at yr scale and see where the spring is balanced. The. Adjust until that weight is at 37-40g for embossing, or whatever othe...

Turn off the feedscrew motor, count one thousand one, one thousand two, snd then lift the cutter head

Your knife may also be bent or have a burr… take out the feedscrew, and run your finger across both edges, see if you feel a rough burr. You may need to take it out and clean it up with a file or a dremel sanding barrel.

You either need to clean schmutz off the knife, or adjust the brass pin at the back of the carriage that rides on the lower backbar so that thr ftont of the carriage overhang (and therefore the knife) hangs a little lower. Mike

Nice work! How is the noise floor on those? Cant tell exactly on the video.

I've been pessimisstic about the longevity of vinyl since I started doing it full time, a decade ago... I've always just been waiting for the other shoe to fall... but the last year has been the first year in that whole time that I really believe that it has at least another decade or more of viabil...

oh man, hope things work out and you can keep it. That is an AMAZING machine.