The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Steve E. · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 4:39 pm Post subject: Links

Here are some links and contacts for you:

This man, Gib Epling, fixed my crystal driven Wilcox-Gay Recordio home 78 burner! He's great, has good supplies, and is a major inspiration for this site.
http://www.west-techservices.com/
He posts here once in a while as "cartridge-repair".

History of Recorded Sound, run by Len Horowitz:
(Len has been incredibly helpful and supportive of this site.)
http://www.hrsrecords.com/

Buy lacquers (acetates) and styli from this company. Labels, too!
http://www.apollomasters.com/

Mr. Kim Gutzke has been very helpful. This is his business:
http://www.customrecords.com/

Bruce Leslie of Pro Recording Service of Ohio rebuilds cutting heads. No website, but his number is:
216-662-1435
Pro Recording Service
EDIT...sad to say, evidence strongly suggests that Bruce is no longer with us. http://lathetrolls.phpbbweb.com/viewtopic.php?t=1011

Al Grundy's business is International Cutterhead. He rebuilds Neumann heads and sets up systems.
His cellphone number is 917-213-0741. He operates out of New Jersey and Long Island,
but when I talked to him he had just returned from setting up a system in Europe.
He used to be the president of the Audio Engineering Society (AES).
(He generally doesn't deal with lower-end stuff, which, for him, includes Presto.)

Alan Graves' Presto history page
http://www.televar.com/grshome/Presto.htm
He sells an extensive selection of literature for Presto equipment. For a few dollars, you get a beautiful copy of the manual or schematic you need.

Contact him through "Rainy Day Patterns":
http://www.televar.com/grshome/Rainyday.htm

RAINY DAY PATTERNS,
5365 Cobblestone Lane,
Eugene, OR 97402
(541) 344-2326
1-888-575-6312
FAX: (541) 344-1562

The band Nautical Almanac inspired the name of this site. They are a band, they experiment with lathe cutting, and they also have a CD duplication service.
http://www.heresee.com/

Chris Butler's album, "The Museum of Me," was recorded using only archiac technologies.
http://www.nutscape.com/ChrisButler/ffm.htm

This internet friend of mine is a remarkable inventor in the Victrola realm. His interest in (obsession with?) the Amish, Victrolas and Middle Earth cross paths in endlessly inventive and fascinating ways:
http://www.halfbakery.com/user/Amishman35

His wind-up Victrola bomb makes me nervous, but I adore the Mithril Credenza!!!!

http://www.geocities.com/amishfan/swordart2.html

His whole site is amazing. I have to post a few extra links to him. He experiments using a soundscriber dictation machine.
http://www.geocities.com/amishfan/

This is "the most cheaply made record player, the Destruct-O-Phone", which Amishman made out of a piece of paper and a sewing needle.
http://www.geocities.com/amishfan/builda.html

If I had a link for Peter Dilg's acoustic recording work I would post it. He doesn't seem to have his own site, though many other sites refer to his work. He has a record label called Wizard that puts out new cylinders for old players.

Tape Op magazine:
http://www.tapeop.com/

The Steve Hoffman Forum. Emphasis on non-maximilized, non-noise-reduced LP & CD mastering. Fun!!!!
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/

A recording forum:
http://www.recording.org/index.php

[outdated links follow:]

This is another record cutting forum:
http://www.andybeemusic.de/phpBB/

http://www.transcousa.com/lds.html

Steve E. · Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 12:49 am Post subject:

This one's pretty funny, yet quite useful. It's flash demonstrations of record cutting principles in very odd Germanic English that a 6 year old could follow.

http://www.vinylrecorder.com/faq.html

"With exact stylus temperature
noise can get reduced enormous!"

Actually, this is an interesting-looking product:
http://www.vinylrecorder.com/

It would appear to be a cutting lathe that straps to your turntable? I'm gonna start a thread on it.

Steve E. · Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 12:53 am Post subject:

Two of the freakiest records in my collection are called RRR-100 and RRR-500. They are a 7" and 12", respectively, of 100 and 500 locked grooves. Amazing.

They were mastered by Paul Brekus at Aardvark. It's a good site with lots of info on the process:

http://www.aardvarkmastering.com/

The compilation was put together by Ron Lessard or Emil Bealeau at RRR records out of Lowell, MA. I can't find the records on their site. I also have a single by Emil where he "covers" Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll" by cutting it into a 45 with zigzagging and double-cut grooves. It plays differently each time. It sounds like he's singing along with the record, and maybe the other set of grooves is a the sound of a washing machine?

http://www.rrrecords.com/

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Site with some nice explanations of the cutting process:

http://www.sickoftalk.com/whyvinyl.html

cementimental · Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 32

cementimental · Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 32

Two toy recording kits avaliable from japan. These won't make anything playable on a real record player, but look like a lot of fun!

Links to HLJ.com which seem to be the cheapest place to buy them, shipped from Japan

Emile Berliner Gramophone

ameisevinyl · Joined: 25 Dec 2005 Posts: 17 Location: cutterlonia

check out:

http://www.vinylium.ch

they sell the famous and neumann sx74-like SC99

as well as the kingston record cutter

if you wanna go for lowbudgetstuff/nobudgetcutters

check out:

http://www.floka.com (somewhere under projects...)

you can get the good japanese EMDIC/micropoint laquers at

http://www.estemac.de (although quite expensive)

if someone got the contact information for emdic-laquer vendor in japan,
let me know!

motorino · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 212

how to made a dub? a cut? a platting? pressing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUGRRUecBik&search=How%20Vinyl%20Records%20Are%20Made%20Part

second part

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IReDh9ec_rk&search=How%20Vinyl%20Records%20Are%20Made%20Part

cuttercollector · Joined: 11 Jun 2006 Posts: 317 Location: San Jose, CA

I suppose people here know about this site?
http://www.televar.com/grshome/Presto.htm

thomas · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Posts: 8 Location: brooklyn, new york

A beautiful extreme of an already difficult process.

http://www.cedmagic.com

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

Steve E. · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 3:20 pm Post subject:

Vinyl-oriented singles label:

http://www.whatsyourrupture.com/