The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

I agree. Why would you want to spend so much money on something which doesn't even work? We all know the old Neumanns are good, but lets face it they're 40 years old and ageing. Surely its the role of enthusiastic engineers not just to repeat history but to create new machines using modern technolog...

Feedback is a common principle of many engineering control systems. Basically you use feedback to compare the actual output (ie cutterhead motion) to desired input (the audio signal). If there is a difference, then a controller (like a feedback amp from Flozki) can be used to drive this difference t...

This is just too cute!

Beer? If its a hipster band you'd be better off going with a bottle of Rekorderlig or some other sweet as bat shit cider.

This bottle cutter was featured in an article in the New Zealand Herald this morning. It was almost unreal seeing something Lathe Troll related appearing in the morning rag. Hopefully cutting reaches the underground mainstream soon.

This forum just hasn't been the same since he/she left

Nice! I wish the shipping wasn't so damn high though.

I remember reading somewhere that its fine as long as the copy is intended for "private use". In my opinion music is like any other tangible product and as soon as you buy it, you should have the freedom to do what you want with it as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else (this applies with pretty muc...

Hi Ryan? What part of NZ are you from? Im in the early conceptual design stage for a stereo vinyl cutter and it would be cool to have some contacts who are doing the same thing. Its pretty difficult to get parts in NZ so maybe we could order 2 of the same part from overseas and split shipping?