The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Can anyone direct me to some good resources on making a lathe mostly from scratch ala Peter King or Les Paul? Thanks in advance!

Well someone is currently bidding on it. I went back and checked the email he sent me, and his english wasn't as bad as I thought it was, but he did say he would be shipping it from his studio in Tampa, Florida...and the auction says he's in Memphis, MO. Here's the new auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/K...

Could they be mistakenly talking about the Vinylium record cutter?

For a few years I've wondered about this description at http://audiotools.com/lp3.html : Fostex Makes a damn good record cutter that has a tangential cutter and a normal arm for playback I've never found any other info on this machine...is it something that was only available in Japan?..or they made...

This auction is up again under yet another sellers name with 0 feedback. I would realy be interested in that cutter if he was legit, so I asked him for some additional photos. He sent me cropped photos of that same photograph, and told me in broken english, that he would end the auction early and se...