The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

I've written a program that generates laser cutter models of LP records that you can cut, if you are still interested

https://github.com/kallaballa/sndcut

Took me way longer to get around to it, but right now i am in the middle of my first attempt: https://chaos.social/@kallaballa/106702187653388281
I'll post the result as well.

I think i understand now. I'll do my first test-cut on the weekend

I assume your expectations on quality are low. indeed :) I would think a CNC mill would be far worse than a laser engraver. The advantage to using a CNC with a drag knife or embosser, is that you can get the correct groove geometry. The typical the laser engraver/cutter resulting groove geometry wo...

dubcutter89 wrote: ↑

Mon May 17, 2021 8:02 am

Interesting stuff - is there a sound or video of the actual cut records?

I'll make a recording but it is terrible .

I bet there are still some veterans that can think of advice for me... after all, this is the experimenters' & innovators' forum, isn't it? :) I tried to engrave the groove on acrylic with a rotating stylus... didn't work at all. I have the following materials at hand that i think might be worth a t...

If you are interested in laser cutting or cnc milling records you should check out https://github.com/kallaballa/sndcut/. It is quiet similar to the above project, but it is more mature, yields better results, is easier to use and alternatively can output g-code.

have fun

In the past I've successfully cut terrible records on the laser cutter using https://github.com/kallaballa/sndcut. Now I'd like to improve on that a bit and use my CNC mill. For that i adapted sndcut to output g-code as well and I'm planing on using a drag knife that i already have. Now my questions...