Cutting Lathes

This is where record cutters raise questions about cutting, and trade wisdom and experiment results. We love Scully, Neumann, Presto, & Rek-O-Kut lathes and Wilcox-Gay Recordios (among others). We are excited by the various modern pro and semi-pro systems, too, in production and development. We use strange, extinct disc-based dictation machines. And other stuff, too.

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organicmusic
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Cutting Lathes

Post: # 33740Unread post organicmusic
Sun Feb 15, 2015 1:27 pm

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Re: Cutting Lathes

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Sun Feb 15, 2015 2:08 pm

It's all your ???

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Post: # 33746Unread post opcode66
Sun Feb 15, 2015 6:49 pm

Very nice
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Re: Cutting Lathes

Post: # 33753Unread post tragwag
Mon Feb 16, 2015 12:24 pm

wow! I've never seen that many different types of lathes in the same room.
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Post: # 33754Unread post ejemmons
Mon Feb 16, 2015 1:39 pm

Amazing! Could there be more pictures?
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Re: Cutting Lathes

Post: # 33766Unread post EmAtChapterV
Tue Feb 17, 2015 2:34 am

I see a Neumann VMS80, two Prestos, an RCA(?), a Scully, and something that looks like a Scully and a Neumann were fused in a transporter accident. That last one intrigues me - I thought only Len Horowitz had something like that. I too would like to see more pictures.

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Post: # 33767Unread post Stevie342000
Tue Feb 17, 2015 4:30 am

The RCA cutter lathe I see is I think an RCA 73-B, I wonder if it has been modified for microgroove recording and or has the 45 rpm adapter?

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Post: # 33768Unread post organicmusic
Tue Feb 17, 2015 5:40 am

Beside the Neumann VMS80 there is a RCA 73-b. It is original, not modified, so it has 33 1/3 and 78. The Presto is a Model A 28N double table from World War II. The US army ordered 6 tables to bring it to Europe for documentation. This one has been stored for 50 years in a administrative building in Nuremberg, so it probably has been used for the trials after war. Then you see a original Scully and a modified Scully, that one has been used by David Manley. It has a Neumann platter, a A+M suspension box (the record label A+M ordered three boxes at Len Horowitz end of the 70ties). This platter is belt driven. At the moment we are setting up this modified Scully, since it was stored for some years. It belongs to a customer. I will try to load up some more detail fotos in the next days.

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Re: Cutting Lathes

Post: # 33774Unread post drdub
Wed Feb 18, 2015 2:32 am

thorsten is running an absolutely amazing studio.
we were on our knees upon our visit some time ago.
big up!
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