Diamond Stylus Available now

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Diamond Stylus Available now

Post: # 11478Unread post The Shank
Sat Nov 20, 2010 10:22 am

Hello,

Here we are.
Stylus for SX74/SC99 and vinylrecorder are now available and full working
for PVC cutting. Everything is ok and works fine.

Picture of the stylus for neumann/vinylium

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Price : 250€
Resharpened (if possible) : 200€

Stylus life : amazing life (if carefully used)

Stylus can be resharpened maybe 2 times, all depends of how tip is defect.


Long shanks availables in 15 days but this is a special order. I have to know how many of yours want one for sure (price is the same)

All answers in Pm

cheers ;-)

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Post: # 11484Unread post piaptk
Sat Nov 20, 2010 4:36 pm

So, you received the stylus I sent you? I'll take one of the long shanks.
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Post: # 11486Unread post fraggle
Sat Nov 20, 2010 9:13 pm

@ shank.
Thank you for the afford to do this.
I guess it was a pain to get there:)
Cheers man

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Post: # 11494Unread post d
Sun Nov 21, 2010 6:19 am

Recording time = amazing .... is this a number of hours? :)

Can you give us an approximate recording hours you have, when used carefully?

On what material exactly you have tested. Maybe you can give a brand name of PVC manufaturer? Asking because I cannot find locally any PVC that have a mirror finish and protected from both sides. So I have to get around and find material to cut.

Thanks

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Post: # 11497Unread post The Shank
Sun Nov 21, 2010 1:49 pm

piaptk wrote:So, you received the stylus I sent you? I'll take one of the long shanks.
yes!
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Post: # 11499Unread post The Shank
Sun Nov 21, 2010 2:01 pm

d wrote:Recording time = amazing .... is this a number of hours? :)

Can you give us an approximate recording hours you have, when used carefully?

On what material exactly you have tested. Maybe you can give a brand name of PVC manufaturer? Asking because I cannot find locally any PVC that have a mirror finish and protected from both sides. So I have to get around and find material to cut.

Thanks
I only cut now on blank pressed records. If you want to know the manufacturer of souri, I can let you know of course, but the minimum order is 2000/3000 T. (20000€)

Life time depend a lot of what you cut and how high, but you can cut at least 150h.
The stylus is made with the best diamond ever done, and this explain the price too.

I can have cheaper diamond stylus like Souri, but I don't want, I prefer to pay a little bit more and to have big quality difference

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Post: # 11500Unread post d
Sun Nov 21, 2010 2:34 pm

I only cut now on blank pressed records. If you want to know the manufacturer of souri, I can let you know of course, but the minimum order is 2000/3000 T. (20000€)

Life time depend a lot of what you cut and how high, but you can cut at least 150h.
The stylus is made with the best diamond ever done, and this explain the price too.

I can have cheaper diamond stylus like Souri, but I don't want, I prefer to pay a little bit more and to have big quality difference
Thanks for information. Best would be to know if it will be good for acrylic, polycarbonate or other material that can be bought at local plastics shop. Of course a lot depends on using the stylus but approximate numbers are good start ;)

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Post: # 11503Unread post The Shank
Sun Nov 21, 2010 5:09 pm

d wrote:
I only cut now on blank pressed records. If you want to know the manufacturer of souri, I can let you know of course, but the minimum order is 2000/3000 T. (20000€)

Life time depend a lot of what you cut and how high, but you can cut at least 150h.
The stylus is made with the best diamond ever done, and this explain the price too.

I can have cheaper diamond stylus like Souri, but I don't want, I prefer to pay a little bit more and to have big quality difference
Thanks for information. Best would be to know if it will be good for acrylic, polycarbonate or other material that can be bought at local plastics shop. Of course a lot depends on using the stylus but approximate numbers are good start ;)
I didn't cut others plastic than Souri's records and pressed blanks.
I think that if there is no problem with a pressed blank, then there of should be no concern with other plastics ;)

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Post: # 11504Unread post petermontg
Sun Nov 21, 2010 5:12 pm

souris plastic are from bayer, am sure someone here gets polys from bayer to try out

will i have to send my presto long shanks to get a diamond
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Post: # 11505Unread post The Shank
Sun Nov 21, 2010 5:17 pm

petermontg wrote:souris plastic are from bayer, am sure someone here gets polys from bayer to try out

will i have to send my presto long shanks to get a diamond
right, this is not a secret anymore since few months now.
But this is a special reference in the company and they don't start to produce
less than 2 or 3 T.

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Post: # 11519Unread post piaptk
Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:15 am

The Shank wrote:
piaptk wrote:So, you received the stylus I sent you? I'll take one of the long shanks.
No sorry, I get 2 from Monkey.
You never received the second one I sent you?
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Re: Diamond Stylus Available now

Post: # 11521Unread post JuanPabloCuervo
Mon Nov 22, 2010 1:53 pm

The Shank wrote:Hello,

Here we are.
Stylus for SX74/SC99 and vinylrecorder are now available and full working
for PVC cutting. Everything is ok and works fine.

Price : 250€
Resharpened (if possible) : 200€

Stylus life : amazing life (if carefully used)
Stylus can be resharpened maybe 2 times, all depends of how tip is defect.
Long shanks availables in 15 days but this is a special order. I have to know how many of yours want one for sure (price is the same)
cheers ;-)
jewelry grade diamonds ?
http://www.stantondj.com/cartridges.html
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Re: Diamond Stylus Available now

Post: # 11522Unread post The Shank
Mon Nov 22, 2010 2:23 pm

JuanPabloCuervo wrote:
The Shank wrote:Hello,

Here we are.
Stylus for SX74/SC99 and vinylrecorder are now available and full working
for PVC cutting. Everything is ok and works fine.

Price : 250€
Resharpened (if possible) : 200€

Stylus life : amazing life (if carefully used)
Stylus can be resharpened maybe 2 times, all depends of how tip is defect.
Long shanks availables in 15 days but this is a special order. I have to know how many of yours want one for sure (price is the same)
cheers ;-)
jewelry grade diamonds ?
http://www.stantondj.com/cartridges.html
Image
I don't understand really what you mean with your stanton links, but you can be sure that Stanton don't use this diamond family for their cartridge

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Post: # 11523Unread post d
Mon Nov 22, 2010 2:25 pm

Well, stanton declares that they use jewelry grade. What is the reality - I think only stanton knows ;)

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Post: # 11524Unread post JuanPabloCuervo
Mon Nov 22, 2010 3:53 pm

d wrote:Well, stanton declares that they use jewelry grade. What is the reality - I think only stanton knows ;)
lab made diamonds are yellow, anyway... the new v3 stylus with jewelry grade diamond does sound much better than older stylus.

Spherical v3 sounds better than older Eliptical stylus.

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Post: # 11525Unread post The Shank
Mon Nov 22, 2010 4:01 pm

JuanPabloCuervo wrote:
d wrote:Well, stanton declares that they use jewelry grade. What is the reality - I think only stanton knows ;)
lab made diamonds are yellow, anyway... the new v3 stylus with jewelry grade diamond does sound much better than older stylus.

Spherical v3 sounds better than older Eliptical stylus.
a little lol because yellow diamond are synthetic diamond...and really not the best quality.

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Post: # 11530Unread post monkey1553
Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:56 pm

The Shank wrote:
JuanPabloCuervo wrote:
d wrote:Well, stanton declares that they use jewelry grade. What is the reality - I think only stanton knows ;)
lab made diamonds are yellow, anyway... the new v3 stylus with jewelry grade diamond does sound much better than older stylus.

Spherical v3 sounds better than older Eliptical stylus.
a little lol because yellow diamond are synthetic diamond...and really not the best quality.
Actually they say those thirty dollar stanton carts use diamonds made from this baby! Image Only zee finest quality as you can see! :D

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Farking Diamonds

Post: # 11534Unread post mossboss
Tue Nov 23, 2010 1:39 am

Hey Guys
It is the lay of the Grain that is important and not Natural V Man made
In actual fact man made diamonds do offer a number of advantages over natural stones in this application
Having said that I wonder what the statement " amazing life with good use" is meant to convey
It is known saphires have cut up to 2-250 hours with no signs of deteoration or one cut and they are done on the very same machine with similar settings
So what is Amazing life Shank? and under what conditions is this achieved?
Cheers
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Re: Farking Diamonds

Post: # 11537Unread post The Shank
Tue Nov 23, 2010 3:10 am

mossboss wrote:Hey Guys
It is the lay of the Grain that is important and not Natural V Man made
In actual fact man made diamonds do offer a number of advantages over natural stones in this application
Having said that I wonder what the statement " amazing life with good use" is meant to convey
It is known saphires have cut up to 2-250 hours with no signs of deteoration or one cut and they are done on the very same machine with similar settings
So what is Amazing life Shank? and under what conditions is this achieved?
Cheers

I think you already cutted with diamond stylus...
diamond is more solid than a saphire, but under certain conditions, it can be much more fragile according to the way in which it can be handled or used.

"Similar settings" and "exactly same setting" are 2 differents things. And this is this little difference that can break your diamond stylus...

A manual instruction is under construction for the stylus

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Post: # 11539Unread post cymbalism
Tue Nov 23, 2010 6:25 am

Nice! :) plus Shank here actually replies to you which is waaaaaay more comforting to know compared to the other guys who won't sell you one or that don't answer your emails/orders for a month at a time.
all the best!
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