The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Thank you, Mark! Well, the source is digital from my laptop. Just an mp3 using a plugin for inverse RIAA curve (I don't remember where I find this plugin, but is says "Olaf Matthes vacuum sound.de). That's for the EQ. No measurements for the frequency response. In pics there is a snapshot from a fre...

Hi there trolls, Well, as a lot of people in here, I have a dream... to build my own record lathe. :D So, after long reading in this forum and watch many many videos, I have my first try. You can see the whole machine in the video below. But here a simple description of what I made: - A Nema17 motor...

Well, that's a pic that you can see the tip of my dusty reproducing needle and the one of my sewing needle. As I can see there is a big difference in the tip... But is this sewing needle good enough to start experimenting? P.S. that's a picture of 20x magnification (just got the usb microscope and t...

Yes, I beleive that there are great! But, I don't have any cutting mashine like Presto or Rekokut.. Just my DIY lathe and I don't know if I can use them on polycarbonate.

Ok, it's cheap enough to try them.

Do you use any heating coil on them ?

Cheers

Thanks for your reply. Well, what do you mean about "proper styli"? Something like that? (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Record-lathe-cutter-presto-record-in-stylus-needle-styli-rek-o-kut-recorder-/281255271864?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item417c1eddb8) Also, I 've seen some guys that can emboss with a o...

Hi, Well, these are very interesting pics. But, as I know even the sewing needles has numbers, that represents the size of the tip. As you can see in my first pics, there are numbers. (3-7). Also, the needles for leather has triangular shape as I can see that with naked eye. Anyway, thanks for your ...

Hi, I appreciate your reply.. I know that the cutting styli has to be sharper and with smaller radius than the repro stylus. I'm asking this because I saw that lot of guys on youtube use sewing needles for their home made lathes. Unfortunately, I don't have any microscope to see the difference of th...

Hi!

Do you know if these sewing needles are suitable for cutting/embossing on polycarbonate plastic?
(the leather needles has triangular shape)

Thank for your reply!

Well, let's say I find a tweeter in about 15W. How much weight it should be? less than 100 grams?

And I will appreciate if you can suggest me a brand of speaker or amp to buy for my project.

Thanks again!

Hi again,

Please help me!

Is something like this good enough for a first experiment?

Also what kind of amp I need?

Thank you in advance

Hi there! Well, I would like to start experimenting on a lathe that cuts on plastic. I have already watch every vid in youtube and I've read many discussion here at this forum. So, I should start building the cutterhead and I want to know what king of speaker do you suggest to find. Is a 30W full ra...

Hi there! I thought that DMM acts totally opposite As Wikipedia says: "there is no need to rush the finalized master disc directly into a refrigerator for groove preservation, as in conventional lacquer disc cutting, before processing the master disc to produce matrices for the pressing of the recor...

Thanks for the replies.. Well, I thought that people that use Souri's vinylrecorder, cut in vinyl.. You can see clearly here, that the material is PVC : http://www.vinylrecorder.com/blanc.html Vinylium says : "we are able to cut into vinyllike material".. which is maybe the polycarbonate material, t...

Hi There! I just want to make a simple question about the durability of vinyl dubplates. Wikipedia says: Vinyl dubplates are a recently developed format which allow extremely durable recordings to be made (lasting 90% as long as pressed vinyl). So, what's the factor that defines the durability of vi...

Thank you for your reply.. That thread you told me it's amazing! I'm really impressed! but, as a newbie to record cutting, a lot of queries born again in my mind! So, generally, the most lathes and cutting heads works like neumann sx74? Is there no external processing of the signal in order to limit...

To be more specific in my query I show you what I've read:

From Hydrogenaudio:
"Acceleration limiting might be used on the vinyl master"

How is this "acceleration limiting" is achieved?

Thanks...

Hi there! While I'm searching the basic techniques that are used in mastering process of cutting lacquer (or vinyl or etc...) I have a query, that I can't find a solution in any article... Let's say that you have a track that contains a lot of excessive attacks (e.g. on snare drum or maybe blips or ...

Ok! thank you for your reply... but I feel stupid now..

Of course! g=gravity!!

Many thanks to SERIF!!! Your explanation is absolutely understandable and gives me a lot of information that I should use for my research... But, as you explain things to me, more queries are borned into my mind..hehe :D So, the same article that I'm reading says: "Accelerations of many hundrends of...

thank you very much markrob for your reply!! Yes! I can understand now... It's simply the speed of the recording stylus which is counted in cm/s...perfect! So, in my third query "High quality recording demands that the stylus noise be typically in the range of 57 to 60 dB below a recorded 1kHz refer...