The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

harper · Joined: 25 Jun 2005 Posts: 30

lazer disk
cd
paper

Steve E. · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 10:52 pm Post subject:

Does that sort of thing dull out your cutting needles quickly? If you glue the 45 adapter on a CD, can you play it as a CD?

I love the cut of yours I saw somewhere...I think it was plexiglass, and it had a different hole for side 1 and side 2.

harper · Joined: 25 Jun 2005 Posts: 30

that minisystems cd one was cut on a 'infra'(dictaphone) dication/transcription machine...and its on a AOL cd, back before i had access to cdr tech... so thats why we glued the 45 center on, quickly gave up that idea... it was cut by nate young and me in 1997 when i was in chicago, one of the first cuts we did //

now all the new cds ones I do have both cd and record / dual format ///
working on a lathe cut transfers cd/rec right now with the last releases and experiments ./

teh paper cuts totally wear down the needles, dang quick but sound so good, PAPER!

cds and laser disks cut like butter/ sound great ! look am,azing

harper · Joined: 25 Jun 2005 Posts: 30

made 20 of these/// double offset// have a few for sale still, but going quick.

http://www.heresee.com/hs53doubleoffsetlathe.htm

sirkut · Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 8

Twig man, that looks neat!

Scheckywhite · Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 16

wow that's ingenuity

Lewis D · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:56 pm Post subject:

Lookes like you've got grouping on your cuts where the lines look like this: ||||||| | | | | | | ||||||| | | | | | |||||||| | | | | | |||||||| | | | | | | |||||||. If you get me. I used to get this on my presto (6n) lathe where the lines group together and then spread out again. I saw that it was the handle, everytime the handle got to the top, the weight of it would pull it down slightly faster than its meant to go. So to overcome this problem, I stuck a couter weight oposit the handle and its stopped the problem so the lines on the disk were consistent and I was not getting the grouping effect.

Still, the cuts look great! Smile

harper · Joined: 25 Jun 2005 Posts: 30

yeah the handle has a slight warp bend in it, ive tried straightening it out but no...

ill try the counterweihghtt THANKS!!!

i never connected the weight and line variations