Request for lathe photos

[jesusfwrl]

As some of you already know, I am regularly writing for an American audio magazine called Copper, published by Paul McGowan/PS Audio and edited by Frank Doris, formerly known among other things for his work at The Absolute Sound.

I have recently started on what will probably be a long series of articles, titled "Around the world in 80 lathes", discussing disk recording history and present, in all the different countries that have somehow contributed to this field. I am covering the basics of the most notable lathes of the different eras and how many of which are still surviving and in use nowadays. The articles include plenty of photos, often featuring cutting rooms of the present day:

YOUR cutting rooms, in other words.

I would like to include as many popular and totally obscure lathes as I can find enough material to write about.

Most of them I have already worked on in my lab over the years, so I know them quite well. There are very few that I haven't had personal experience of, but there are several of which I am lacking good photos. I am usually way too busy to shoot photos of what I am working on, so only about 10% of my work is actually documented. Many of you have examples of my work in your studios that I do not have photos of myself!
But this is not in any way limited to my work. I am interested in any and all lathes ever made, even if I haven't worked on it.

You can see/read the first few episodes in the following links, to get an idea of what I am writing about. I guess you may even find it interesting, if you are cutting records!

Part1
https://www.psaudio.com/copper/article/around-the-world-in-80-lathes-part-one/
Part2
https://www.psaudio.com/copper/article/around-the-world-in-80-lathes-part-two/
Part3
https://www.psaudio.com/copper/article/around-the-world-in-80-lathes-part-three/

So, I am good for VMS-82 and VMS-80 lathes, I have plenty of photos of VMS-70 machines and a VMS-66, and I am good for Scully LS-76 lathes as well.

Next up would be the bathtub Scullys (anything prior to the LS-76, even as far back as the wax era), for which I could use a few more photos, as well as the earlier Neumanns, AM32 and earlier.

I have very little material about the Lyrec lathes and have never seen a Cybersonics in real life. I am also interested in photos of the Presto 14B and 8DG (I have a few but could use more), the Fairchilds, Western Electric and any other big lathes out there (custom BBC stuff, ancient broadcasting machines, etc).

I will then be moving on to the smaller lathes, Prestos, Rek-O-Kuts, RCAs, MSS, BSR, Thorens, LD, Universal, anything, I will eventually move on to the recent developments and innovations.

So, if you would like to be featured, please do contact me and send me photos.
Detailed photos of your lathes, yourself with your lathe, your studio, your dog on the lathe, you burning 100 dollars while jetskiing, etc.

Please do include some stories of records you cut that you are particularly proud of, so that I can mention them. All photos can be fully credited, with a link to your website, unless you do not want that for some reason. The only requirements are that you have the rights to the photos, or permission to use them for this purpose (we do not need exclusive rights, you can also use them elsewhere of course), and that the photos are reasonably well-made (not blurry or badly lit).

I would prefer contact by email: ji@agnewanalog.com

Please note that the readership of Copper is quite significant (tens of thousands of subscribers) and includes audiophiles as well as audio professionals. The point of the exercise is to spread the word about what you guys are actually doing in your studios nowadays, and how we came to this point through continuous development and preservation of disk recording technology.

Keep up the good work everyone and feel free to share it with the world through this. If you enjoy reading the articles, you can subscribe to Copper free of charge here: https://www.psaudio.com/copper-magazine/

I personally really enjoy reading the work of the entire team, Copper contributors are all quite impressive, so check them out.
Happy reading and happy cutting!