The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Just caught this post, 1-16-09.

Lots of experience here.

Mikey, happy new year!
Nottingham, may I drop by sometime and talk shop? Smt is betterjavascript:emoticon(':D').
cd4cutter, may I pick your brain?

My best-thomas

it was not the lathe he cuts on. very fair though.

Droy from Florida? His lathe is worth more than $400.

Visiting an operating plant or studio can be very helpful way of deciding. If you can work in one for awhile, even better.

Whew! Interesting to read, organotin salt, epoxidized soybean oil and montan wax ester huh? Doubting that is the version of material produced today? Is there anyone out there who knows or used this material? The 4channel part has me mystefied. The link said this was an RCA patent. In theory it is po...

Hi Mikey,

Fancy meeting you here.

There are three plants in metro area, all in brooklyn. Just outside of metro area are two more, both jersey.

posted this elsewhere- Four years ago I heard a blank that had been cut on a Scully. The impression, the cutter gave me when we talked, was the trade off was stylus wear not sound quality. Something like 75 cuts on lacquer compared to 7 on vinyl. The blank supplier was different, I vaguely recall th...

Four years ago I heard a blank that had been cut on a Scully. The impression, the cutter gave me when we talked, was the trade off was stylus wear not sound quality. Something like 75 cuts on lacquer compared to 7 on vinyl. The blank supplier was different, I vaguely recall the name 'Bamboo Guy'.

A beautiful extreme of an already difficult process.

http://www.cedmagic.com

http://www.video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6915995168252564491