Embossing plain aluminum "instantaneou"s records?

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Embossing plain aluminum "instantaneou"s records?

Post: # 3480Unread post vitanola
Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:11 pm

has anyone here experience making the embossed aluminum records that were commonly used for airchecks before the introduction of lacquer coated discs?

O have several recording lathes, mostly Presto (a couple of 75A's and a K-10, along with an RCA unit) and was hoping to find a diamond-tipped "trailing point' recording stylus so that i could experiment with this format.

One advantage of this format is that the records may be successfully played on acoustic machines, if a fiber needle is used.

Anyone have any pointers?

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