The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Well, today - April 18, 2023, we finally achieved a significant result! Surface noise is still significant, but we'll deal with it later. Tomorrow we will start making the second version of the suspension. To do this, we will assemble a new design. We have two more linear drives. Just yesterday I wa...

Today I participated a little in the process of working on our future lathe. So we made a torque tube from aluminum and a V-spring from spring steel from a stencil (we have a lot of it, we order a lot of electronic boards). In this version, we made the stylus mount at an angle for embossing. Later w...

As you understand from the previous photo - the head covered with polyurethane - "did not play as it should", or rather, did not start recording better. Sorry for the long break in messages. Those who have children will understand me. My wife got sick and I was constantly with our children. But our ...

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IMG_7053.jpeg And here is the «miracle» amplifier! It costs $50 on Alibaba. The only thing this trickster did was put in an LED indicator and changed the knobs. https://m.alibaba.com/p-detail/detail-1600238905122.html Individual elements, cheap equalizers, indication are also available there. Of co...

Forgot. Tonight my colleague decided to dampen our head. Tomorrow we will remove the excess polyurethane and check!

He sent me a photo of what it looks like now! I hope it's dry until tomorrow.

We continue our experiments 🥳🤣 We had to open one of the tweeters and restore it. We completely reassembled the head and tried to cut it with a sharpened ruby ​​on PETG. It was very noisy, we didn't do the heating🤧. At the same time, embossing through the spread of the ruby ​​gave a minimum of noise...

Many people like shiny things. Shit can shine too! The video shows the same shiny speaker systems with cheap full-range speakers, a cheap turntable with a cheap head. On the supposedly “fully automatic” recorder, there are indistinct level indicators from Aliexpress, and in the era of color touch sc...

In the process of assembling the V3 head, one of the aluminum cones broke, and we stopped until Monday 04/03/2023 to fix everything. At this time, some of the equipment for cutting came to us. Two large cast iron plates, a quadrant and collets for attaching styluses. We also expect abrasive discs. A...

Overall so far already a good success! Continue!!! Thanks for your feedback - it's inspiring! Today's recording, on a head not fully assembled. We make it collapsible, on threads and clamps. The threads, of course, during the final assembly will be assembled on a red lock)) Test Emboss on StereoHea...

This is one of the first emboss test cut without EQ on stereohead V2 with VibroSpeakers full printed on 3D with Broken Ruby Stylus on polycarbonate.

https://soundcloud.com/diy_cutter/testcut24032023_ruby_emboss_po/s-u7bxN1xoOXr

Today we have assembled the third version of our stereo head. She's on twitter, VR-inspired gimbal, head model by grooveguy, but modified by us in length and speaker and gimbals mounting design. We also received polishing stones for cutting (a set of 8 stones of different abrasiveness up to 0/0.25 m...

So we're already recording. In the process of creating the third head, still 3D printed, but on tweeters. We will test tomorrow. We made the first tungsten embossing tool. Surface cleanliness has not yet been achieved, but cutting equipment is on its way to us. The results are average, there is some...

Thanks to all watching! Fun is the main thing in this exciting process. Because we will always have time to buy a machine assembly for about 10,000 dollars or euros! But let's skip all the fun of building your own machine. Yesterday and today we are already making the first cuts. The quality is not ...

So the deadline has arrived! 03/23/2023. Beautiful date, under which I customized everything. Looking ahead, I will say that a miracle did not happen and today we did not record anything, but we did a lot. Technically, we can't record records yet, but we can already take orders. Therefore, we launch...

Hi all :wink: . Tomorrow is the last day of our 20 day Marathon and today was a very busy day. We don't have a working machine yet, but I'm totally positive! In spite of everything, I am sure that tomorrow we will make a wonderful test cut. And we will be able to announce our opening ... Or will we ...

Other tweeters from Boschmann arrived, model MM-1SE, with a titanium dome and neodymium magnets, the price is about 15 euros per pair. They have a larger diameter of the working part of the dome, so today they cut out new cones from duralumin, they will also be composite, so that you can adjust the ...

I've been having very weird responses with silicone dampeners in my mono heads, seems to cut out a big chunk of response - might be something to consider. It disappeared when I went back to neoprene, but next on my try list is soft urethane... Thanks for the hint. We have not yet received decent re...

Yesterday. I didn't have time to write yesterday. We have done some of the work on preparing the head. We decided to make a Souri-style spring in our own way, through silicone dampers. The tool holder was also machined from aluminum. We make the entire structure as collapsible as possible. An attemp...

cones look great! Thank you, we mill them on a lathe. Material - aluminum. They immediately tried to make them whole, the cones along with part of the reinforcement, but after a couple were broken, they decided to make them composite. Separately, the cone, separately - the guide fittings. I am just...