The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

As long as there isn't so much vertical modulation that the record will skip it's no problem. A very "red" correlation meter often indicates an artificially widened digital stereo image. Or matrix quadraphonic (SQ, QS, EV-4, Dynaquad...) or a stereo test record from 1956-7. In either case a lot of ...

I have a chance to inherit a Korean War 78-only Presto lathe from a guy who liberated it out of Armed Forces Radio Seoul over 60 years ago. It has an overhead carriage and a choice of three or four groove pitches and a choice of outside in or inside out depending if you have the other lead screw (it...

Do you cut for yourself primarily or do you try and do as much commercial work as you can? I'd say pretty much I end up cutting for myself. This old radio station double-turntable pivot-cutting-arm Presto only has 110 LPI pitch only has 78 RPM only has mono and has no ability to cut lead in or lead...

So do it in the back by the bathroom the same as Capitol Records was started three feet from the bathroom at Wallich's Music City on Sunset and Vine in Hollywood back in 1942.

Can anyone give advice on where / how they obtained the capital to invest in a cutting lathe? We managed to borrow money and use our own savings Not having been able to do it myf just because of a lack of street team/publicity and promotions staff or access to people who do websites/social media - ...

I PMed Steve E a handful of possible solutions I see that he could explore. You can PM him asking for a copy and then translate yourself from the original because - like lots of other guys - I only know one way to say things - and most of the time it's not tactful or nice or warm or fuzzy or.... - a...

You could change the drive system - which would then make it a 45-only system - but it's a L O T of work because it's not like an old phono where they have the springs in place to be able to pull the idler in closer to the smaller size shaft. And even if you did THAT - the arms on those are way too ...

Lenco (Bogen) L-75 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af0dakqOtxU Speed lever has indentations for the major speeds - otherwise it's a complete sweep from 4 RPM all the way to 105. It's also driven vertically meaning - no idler tire rumble. So if you got one in addition to playing what you need to at t...

Gutzke's method from the 90s - considerably updated since then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vXBCynWF_4 And its' various takeoffs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAd7_h2GjtI Or you could try what happens when you get a flexidisc a gramophone and an Edison Diamond Disc together in a threesome htt...

Just a guess but did you forget to turn your stylus heat on between one cut and the other? Other guess - did you forget to reset your depth of cut and then do so halfway thru? Third guess - Did you use a harder poly for the first cuts and a softer one for the subsequent cuts? Meaning it looks like t...

``Easter Egg'' Cameos in ``Christmas'' Movies Like in Elmo Saves Christmas Muppets Bert and Ernie pass by a TV set playing It's a Wonderful Life during the scene where George Bailey wonders why Bert the cop and Ernie the cab driver don't know him, and calls out `Bert! Ernie! You sang to me on my wed...

store video on vinyl too, or to be treated like a datasette. Been there. Done that. There is Nothing Wrong With Your Phonograph Set https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he_1HKmEkHs Type of Picture Quality (Unrelated Audio) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3CFkK5OORw Format Explanation https://www.youtub...

I take it you mean to say you found a VMS82 DMM lathe. I can't imagine why you hesitated to pick it up while it was being offered to you, especially when it was free. Because as stated above - we were beaten to the punch by somebody who had a closer affiliation with LOC and AFB than we did and it w...

Your project makes no economic sense. Neither does anything else in the archiving/preservation/niche-market world. Normal Super45Sonic or Half Speed Mastered or 180/200G vinyl or special grainless dye color vinyl or picturediscs/shaped discs etc for $117.95 a pop? Obscure bands nobody ever heard of...

I lose track. I emailed all the cutting houses in Europe and Scandanavia and I thought I got a reply back from somebody in one of the Stockholm Copenhagen or Oslo suburbs who had one that got very little use IIRC it wasn't one of the major houses like all the others.

So - two years on. What else have you come up with in 33-for-45 playback and/or mastering for CD-4? The ANRS can be tested for accuracy from the 4-track quadraphonic JVC cassette deck from 1974 shows up occasionally on the various electronics museum-excess resale sites (instead of eBay/Amazon - I sa...

Are you sure you don't mean 200µm WIDTH of groove? Even Len only cuts about 10 mils wide. Could be. Math has never been my strong suit. It's been almost 30 years since Len helped me pass my Physics combination essay/supporting calculations final in college using all the record cutting and SQ/CD-4 q...

Was dragging around and found an old 1968 MoPar 8-track player that has the capstan as part of a direct-drive motor with its own flywheel built in. That's the same one that got adapted from a e.g. Fidelipac-type background music cart machine produced by Western Electric in the mid `60's from which B...

I contacted Chiba-sensei to see if he could make a laser player that can accommodate a 14" master. ' いいえ ' was his reply. You're talking to the wrong people then. They made a whole run of `em for the LOC Culpeper enough to spin 17-1/4 inch blanks and go within a half an inch to the center hole AND ...

Solution: ELPJ contactless laser turntables. Acetates/refs can be played any number of times without anything being shaved off. They used to make 200uM DMMs for drum & bass etc dunno if they make em anymore - but if you DO that then you have to have short sides due to the nature of the beast - which...