MONO diy cutter head

[Fatrecco]

Good tip with the adhesives. I use HSS. Tungsten needles I never tried, but I have here something laying around (TIG needles) (: wanna buy a diamond in future for real cutting. Mayby I should test some stylus from farmer John to compare. My stylus diameter is 1,2mm. I try to make the degree point under 90°. This head needs now much power and has no damping in his mechanics. The resonance is good for compensating the bad freq. response caused by the embossing. Embossing at 33 1/3 and playback at 45 pushes the response up to 9..10kHz. It's not loud and the tracking for the playback needle is not very good, but I'm a little bit satisfied with the quality.

[soeffingodly]

Good tip with the adhesives. I use HSS.

What is HSS?

Also, I've been getting pretty good cuts using piaptk's sapphire embossing needles on makrolon poly.

[Fatrecco]

High Speed Steel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_steel

[jjwharris]

I've been having issues with squeaking and background noise with piaptks saphirres, but the frequency response is pretty outstanding, I'm still unsure if what I'm doing incorrectly. I need to try some lighter fluid...