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- Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:34 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Weird LP cylinder format made by Kenner Toy Company of Cincinnati
- Replies: 3
- Views: 844
Weird LP cylinder format made by Kenner Toy Company of Cincinnati
In the late 1960s through early 1970s (1967-1972), the Kenner Toy Company of Cincinnati came up with an unusual format using a cylinder that revolved at 33 1/3 RPM and cut the same way as a standard disc LP. It contained anywhere from 15 to 20 minutes of music per cylinder, with spacing to indicate ...
- Tue Feb 19, 2019 12:32 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: ebay scams be careful!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6256
Re: ebay scams be careful!
There is currently a Vanrock/Atom A-101 listed for $2600 + $180/shipping.
Seller this time is duffledub in Israel.
Is it legit?
Seller this time is duffledub in Israel.
Is it legit?
- Sat Jan 26, 2019 9:02 am
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: VERY IMPORTANT Help Peter King, the FATHER of Lathe Cuts....
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15521
Re: VERY IMPORTANT Help Peter King, the FATHER of Lathe Cuts
What is going on with Peter King now in 2019? How's he doing?
- Wed Aug 10, 2016 3:21 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Wilcox Gay Recorordio vs Meissner 9-1065
- Replies: 2
- Views: 739
Re: Wilcox Gay Recorordio vs Meissner 9-1065
I only have experience with the Meissner. It's difficult to get the cutting head to cut with nice clear signal. It seemed to work well once or twice after repairs, but after that the volume seems to be a bit too low, and you're taking a risk if you crank up the volume since at some point it can be ...
- Sat Oct 11, 2014 9:36 am
- Forum: Site Announcements and Meta-Forum
- Topic: Pledge drive. Goal: FREE THE BLOG, by raising $1500.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 13536
Re: Pledge drive. Goal: FREE THE BLOG, by raising $1500.
I just came in here, it looks like, 7 months later. What is the tally so far? Are you still raising the $1500? Did you think of doing a crowdsourcing fundraiser? Those who donate a certain amount should be entitled to a one-off record (dubplate/lacquer/polycarbonate/etc.).
- Thu Oct 17, 2013 12:11 pm
- Forum: Our Cutters and their work
- Topic: Consolidated Edison: Polymer recordings by THE VICTROLA GUY
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2785
Re: MAKING A DISC QUALITY RECORDING ON AN EDISON WAX CYLINDE
Also, it's interesting to note that all cylinder phonographs have lathes, and it's possible to record on any of them with the proper recording stylus and blank wax cylinders (although not all of them will have good results). Edison was right in that the cylinder was a more correct format than disc b...
- Mon Oct 14, 2013 7:58 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: ghost grooves
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1213
Re: ghost grooves
I have aluminum discs (with recordings) from the 1930s. Apparently they were embossed as well, as you can hear the ghosting sounds between grooves if the stylus is not riding in a groove. The land between the grooves is not flat on these either, so, to play them, the playback stylus must be properly...
- Mon Oct 07, 2013 7:23 pm
- Forum: Experimenters' & Innovators' forum
- Topic: Laser Cut Grooves... A Cutting Laser makes a record
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7450
Re: Laser Cut Grooves... A Cutting Laser makes a record
The experimenters who are attempting to create a record cutter/lathe/recorder that cuts a groove with a laser, while researching for the best method for transferring a WAVe file to a properly cut phonograph groove, it might help to study a properly-scanned/digitized phonograph groove. To scan/digiti...
- Thu Aug 01, 2013 2:40 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Meissner...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1799
Re: Meissner...
I just got my repaired Meissner back from Gib. The repair took some time and effort (along with figuring out an appropriate payment method), but was worth it. Gib added a modern phono plug, so it's possible to hook in any modern audio device. I'm not sure how much longer he'll be repairing these.
- Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:22 pm
- Forum: Experimenters' & Innovators' forum
- Topic: has any 1 tried this method or is it a myth that it works
- Replies: 6
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This may be a good or a bad idea, but.... A porcelain or rubber silicone mold would enable anyone to make multiple chocolate records, even non-lathe-trollers. It would be possible to sell such molds with instructions on how to pour the chocolate for making records. There's also the risk of giving aw...
- Wed Mar 21, 2012 12:06 pm
- Forum: Experimenters' & Innovators' forum
- Topic: has any 1 tried this method or is it a myth that it works
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2023
Your chocolate record from a stamper is really cool. Would it be possible to create a porcelain mold, from a metal mother? Whereby the porcelain mold would be a negative, like a stamper, into which you could pour chocolate, to make a chocolate record. Then again, would porcelain be able to support g...
- Wed Mar 07, 2012 4:00 pm
- Forum: The Reference Archive
- Topic: 24 bit / 192 KHz sampling rate - is it more desirable?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2460
24 bit / 192 KHz sampling rate - is it more desirable?
"24/192 Music Downloads
...and why they make no sense"
Full article:
http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
...and why they make no sense"
Full article:
http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
- Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:03 pm
- Forum: Experimenters' & Innovators' forum
- Topic: new shellac disks, anyone?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2298
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 7:13 pm
- Forum: The Treehouse
- Topic: new indie-artist record company starts up in Kentucky
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1595
Palomino Records
Here's news (video) of a record pressing plant in Shepherdsville, Kentucky - Palomino Records:
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20111120/SCENE04/311200001/1003/How-fading-square-dance-record-plant-got-lift-from-rock-n-roll-s-vinyl-revival?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Cimg%7CHome%7Cp
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20111120/SCENE04/311200001/1003/How-fading-square-dance-record-plant-got-lift-from-rock-n-roll-s-vinyl-revival?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Cimg%7CHome%7Cp
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:48 pm
- Forum: Vinyl Mastering, Lacquer cutting, Pro's and others
- Topic: NEED LATHE CUT RECORDS MADE
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5353
Incidentally, I have learned that Peter King has gotten the costs of production way down using these methods: He makes his own cutting stylii out of cheap steel gramophone playback stylii - which can be found for, like, 2-cents each, using his own grinding machines to grind the stylus before cutting...
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:34 pm
- Forum: Vinyl Mastering, Lacquer cutting, Pro's and others
- Topic: NEED LATHE CUT RECORDS MADE
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5353
I've been trying to get a working lathe cutter for 30 years! I've got one finished but now I have run out funds to pay the repair charge! After 30 years, I have yet to cut one record and have not even seen a working cutter cutting a record, in person. (Yes, I am stuck in BFE, in the middle of rural ...
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:25 pm
- Forum: Experimenters' & Innovators' forum
- Topic: Can anyone here cut 4-minute cylinders?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2224
Another way to solve the 4-minute issue is to take a cutting head (normally used for discs) and fit it into a cylinder machine for cutting cylinders. *Then* you could vary the depth of the groove to cut any size groove and should be able to create a "4-minute" cylinder groove that way. I am not sure...
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:13 pm
- Forum: Experimenters' & Innovators' forum
- Topic: Can anyone here cut 4-minute cylinders?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2224
Peter Dilg is well-known for cutting 2-minute cylinders. Everyone I've asked say there doesn't exist a 4-minute cutting stylus. It seems to me that a jewel cutter could just make one. Right? I don't know anything about cylinders, but I'm guessing that all playback styli for cylinders are setup to p...
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 12:59 pm
- Forum: The Reference Archive
- Topic: Video : Astor Records, Australia. (1967)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2684
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:15 am
- Forum: Experimenters' & Innovators' forum
- Topic: new shellac disks, anyone?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2298
new shellac disks, anyone?
Has anyone yet found a pressing plant that can press actual shellac discs? This came up here a few years before, where a musician would like to have records made that can be played on handcranking gramophones and victrolas. What would it take for a pressing plant to substitute shellac material in pl...