RECORDETTE HELP! cutter replacement

Post: # 3493Unread post **alienmanstk** Sat Sep 20, 2008 11:08 am

Hello! I am wondering is a recordette sr. cutting head, will attach to an old vantage recordette-3 ? On those old vantage's are the cutters built in? or can they be removed? Also, will the recordette sr. cutter, actually fit on to the machine? Any help would be amazing!!!!!!Thanks
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Post: # 3497Unread post **alienmanstk** Sun Sep 21, 2008 4:37 pm

Please, anyone who knows he answer, do tell! as both of these items are running out of time!!!!! thanks again, (sorry to be pushy). Just cant wait to start cutting

Post: # 3499Unread post **cuttercollector** Sun Sep 21, 2008 6:59 pm

what is a "vantage recordette-3" ?
Is it european?
I know what a Wilcox Gay Recordette is and it uses a common old fashioned steel needle playback cartridge as both the playback pickup and the cutter. If your other machine uses that too then I guess they would interchange...

Post: # 3521Unread post **Perisphere** Tue Sep 30, 2008 5:28 pm

My Recordette 3 (early 1950s, 3 speed version of the Recordette models) had a Shure W56 as the original cartridge. It was apparently adapted from the traditional large format 78 rpm crystal playback cartridges of yore, but it had an added stylus assembly that used a 2 mil (which for a time was called 'universal' tip size, a little big for microgroove records, a little small for 78s) stylus for playbacks, situated behind the front thumbscrew assembly that held the cutting stylus.