/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.1720050]

Sup /diy/.
I'm really interested in building a vinyl lathe, since the premade ones are either retardadly expensive, old or both. The problem is that I really don't know where to begin and any existing information on making such contraption is very scarse and difficult to come by. And so if any of you know a thing or two about making those things then please let me know. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.1720056]

Goodwill?

[Anonymous No.1720211]

>>1720050
What on earth do you need to press your own masters for? This is literally the golden age of digital home recording equipment. Just record it to disk and email it off to someone with a really nice lathe to have your masters made.

[Anonymous No.1720217]

>>1720211
Well to be frank with you, the type of music I would want to get pressed onto vinyl would more than likely upset the hipsters that operate those machines. Regardless where's the fun in using such a bland solution.

[Anonymous No.1720220]

I have no answer to your questuon, OP but I have an opinion:
Putting a digital recording on an analog medium is completely pointless. I hope you're keeping everything analog because otherwise you end up with the worst of both worlds.

[Anonymous No.1721269]

>>1720050
It's noteworthy that such equipment is expensive, as that usually is the result of finely made gear.

It is very difficult to reach necessary tolerances for such tools. I have seen old engine blocks used to support metal lathes, since they are very rigid and made to fine tolerances.

Search 'diy cnc' and have a look.

[Anonymous No.1721303]

If you took the hundreds of hours necessary to do this, and earned 10 bucks an hour, you could buy one and still have $2000 left over.

Have you thought of finding someone who has one and making some records there? I’ll be honest - I am nearly 100% certain this task is beyond you. Even if you got the necessary equipment you’d still have 100 hours of learning to use it.

[Anonymous No.1721308]

If you took the hundreds of hours necessary to do this, and earned 10 bucks an hour, you could buy one and still have $2000 left over.


Have you thought of finding someone who has one and making some records there? I’ll be honest - I am nearly 100% certain this task is beyond you. Even if you got the necessary equipment you’d still have 100 hours of learning to use it.

I saw one at an auction in WA a few weeks back and had to force myself not to buy it. I don’t need another fucking hobby

[Anonymous No.1721344]

>>1720211
> Why would you want to do it yourself? this is /diy/.

[Anonymous No.1721508]

>>1721344
This is more DIWhy than DIY

[Anonymous No.1722332]

>>1721308
I've looked over ebay and any lathes on sale are rust buckets that propably don't work. Furthermore yes there are plenty of people out there that do put whatever music you want onto vinyl but the issue is that if I where to request moonman to be pressed, I am 99% certain that I my request would be turned down. Hence I don't want to go that route.

[Anonymous No.1722377]

>>1722332
omfg moonman

It's so hard to find moonman tracks now that YouTube shoa'd them. I can't even torrent them anymore. The only thing harder to find is old Johnny Rebel tracks.

[Anonymous No.1722808]

>>1722377
Bitchute still has some tracks up.

[Anonymous No.1722926]

>>1722332
>moonman LPs
Sign me the fuck up

[Anonymous No.1722931]

>>1720050
>since the premade ones are either retardadly expensive, old or both
>old
and thats a problem? everything in connection to vinyl is old

[Anonymous No.1722968]

>>1722931
I meant old as in they are in poor condition or look like they are about to fall apart in an instant.

[Anonymous No.1723789]

You just got me super interested in scratching some plastic.
you could use an printer that has the cartridge on that metal rail to move the cutterhead?
what i found there are some 3d prints somewhere on lathe trolls forum but haven't found them yet. but for the construction of the cutterhead is mystery to me.

[Anonymous No.1723804]

>>1723789
Actually I'd just buy those automation instrument rails or what ever the fuck they are and make the basic structure over your record player.
https://www.lathetrolls.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=6961&hilit=3d+print this seems like a pretty good thread

[Anonymous No.1723927]

>>1723804
That's pretty good actually

[Anonymous No.1724509]

bump

[Anonymous No.1724789]

>>1723789
It'll likely be very fine machine work and a lot of fiddling. Make coils, align them with a magnet attached to the needle. It'll be physically big because I suspect tracking force will need to be high and a decent amount of power put into the cutter to drive it, meaning an amp with an inverse RIAA curve will be also be required. Pretty ambitious but it's possible. Gonna need a high torque and very accurate motor though.

[Anonymous No.1724896]

Additionall since the idea interests me, are you considering a linear tracking tonearm? How do you propose to keep tracking? I would cut a softer msterial than vinyl then copy it over to a resin that cures with a hardness and strength surpassing vinyl. Plastics/resins have come a long way and this could potentially be a good way to create records that are durable and indestructable.

[Anonymous No.1725009]

>>1724789
There might also be a change to just get/make a high torque record player and use the rotation to also move the cutter by rotating screw. but this also need some fine machinery to get smooth moving.

[Anonymous No.1725011]

>>1724896
i imagined just using polycarbonate plastic and warm it up a bit to get smoother cut on it, not too much just with few lamps or something

[Anonymous No.1725064]

>>1720217
my friend did that shit and to be quite frank he has put some real fucked up shit on there, your screamo or whatever will not phase people who do this.

[Anonymous No.1725988]

>>1725009
Yep, worm drive with the right gear ratio. Drive the cutter via platter and time it so the tonearm sweeps across the record appropriately. Easy as piss.
>>1725011
That's an interesting approach but you would have to consider malleability versus temperature then possible distortion of the material as it cools.
Pic unrelated, just got a hard on for the Linn.

[Anonymous No.1726594]

>>1720217

lemme guess

[Anonymous No.1726774]

>>1720056
kys