The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

kd88's thread "antique at heart, contemporary in approach" in the Handcrankers forum involves him duping his records using, I think, silicone. Very very exciting! I can't figure out how to move the thread up here (where I think this sort of thing best belongs), but please check it out!! Anyone who u...

Wow. Looks like they sell for NOTHING on Ebay. Good tip! made in the first half of the 90's, ay?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_types_of_gramophone_records I like the 1972 Bhutanese postage stamps that were records!! among other cool things: "In 1972, the Kingdom of Bhutan released several unusual postage stamps that were playable plastic phonograph records. These miniature 33 1/3 RPM rec...

I would like to get my head rewound.. I recommend hallucinogenic cactus, but only under the supervision of a mature, trained elder in the Native American tradition. (This forum does not necessarily represent the views of this forum, and we make no claims as to the wisdom or legality of our "advice.")

There's a cool discussion of whether it's possible to plate your own master stampers, blah blah blah. I'd move it here but it's nice to have something going on there.

JayDC wrote: Had anyone tried to design a small vinyl press machine? I think there would be a tight niche market for such a device, if it was affordable.

Damn straight! Sign me up for one!!

May sound a little dumb ,but I thought there must be hand cutters too, A grammphone cutter. Anyone know any models? Not a dumb question at all, but perhaps a disappointing answer. To the best of my knowledge, cutters in the acoustic era were generally one-of-a-kind machines. It seems a little unlik...

May sound a little dumb ,but I thought there must be hand cutters too, A grammphone cutter. Anyone know any models? Not a dumb question at all, but perhaps a disappointing answer. To the best of my knowledge, cutters in the acoustic era were generally one-of-a-kind machines. It seems a little unlik...

Hi, Andybee! Very good to hear from you!

96 Classical 78's for Sale -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A guy I know in Fort Greene, Brooklyn is moving out of his house of 40 years in a few days. He wants to sell off his classical 78's. He's got 96 of them, all 12", a good half (at least) in the...

I'm thinking of limiting the private message feature here....Maybe that's one of the reasons spammers set up accounts here. It's really mysterious. Right now I have a 100 message cap on it. I'm thinking of bringing it down to 20 incoming, 20 outgoing, 20 saved. What thinks you? Anyone have a need fo...

eh. Too much work. but if anyone knows anything about php and can offer advice on how to delete 100's of fake accounts without using several keystrokes for each.....that would be much appreciated! Some of these accounts lead to trojan viruses if you click the websites on their member pages....so be ...

I'm going to try out a system for a few days...I will have to personally activate new accounts. I've been getting about 8 new members a day, and most of them are creepy spammers with ads or porn in their URLs. I don't have the time to delete them all. Maybe they are benign, but I don't really get it...

I think this is of interest.....Our interest in mechanical reproduction dovetails with the concerns about digital archiving found here. Thanks to my friend Stephen Klein for forwarding this to me. --Steve Unable to Repeat the Past Storing information is easier than ever, but it's also never been so ...

Would it make sense simply to play it back on a soundscriber?

I'm dying to hear the results!! I hope you are still persuing this....it's the funniest/coolest thing I've seen in ages.

http://www.aardvarkmastering.com/

Paul Brekus has put out comps of locked groove records.

Hi Andy Bee! Welcome!!

Ha! It's all been done before :) So in the interest of history, AFAIK the Songcatcher movie with the cylinders was fiction. Lomax started in America with big klunky Presto lathes run off 6V(!) mechanical inverters from his car batteries. Lomax was not the first field recording guy. Certainly there ...

important question: Are you using empties or full cans?

yahoo lathe trolls? fine by me.