Great Soul Build Thread

[GreatSoulSounds]

Hey I am new to lathe’s - I have built a lathe over the past few months based on the David Nelson design - I can only say the information available on this has been brilliant and so helpful - and given me a fantastic starting point. I won’t post too many photos as they have been seen before

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This is a video of my first every cut and playback - https://www.instagram.com/reel/DS-coOziFX-/?igsh=MTN2Yjh4eXF3cGkzaw==

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The control box - used the arduio board - and then coded through chatgbt! I was struggling but it has helped me program the board to create wider spaced lead in - rec at 6 grooves per mm - and then a push button so I can manually manage the lead out. I put some VU gauges in so I can monitor level coming out the laptop into the amp. I am dragging music into ableton lite - applying an EQ and playing it directly from there

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Where I would like some advise from the forum - this is my cutter head - I was so excited build it I rushed things and I’m now not happy with it - should I rebuild straight away or will it still be capable to produce some reasonable results? I am using diamond head - set to 8 degree angle - grooves are roughly 0.8mm wide - how much can be rectified with EQ?

[drdub]

Where I would like some advise from the forum - this is my cutter head - I was so excited build it I rushed things and I’m now not happy with it - should I rebuild straight away or will it still be capable to produce some reasonable results? I am using diamond head - set to 8 degree angle - grooves are roughly 0.8mm wide - how much can be rectified with EQ?

I doubt your grooves are 0.8mm wide? should be more like 0.05mm?

-Dub

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Ah yes - sorry 0.08mm wide

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i cant get much volume on playback so i am going to have another crack at building the cutter head