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Lathe Calibration 101

Lathe Calibration 101

With so many new people getting into lathe cutting, we wanted to create a quick, concise guide to three essential parts of lathe calibration, no matter what lathe you are...

Lathe Calibration 101

With so many new people getting into lathe cutting, we wanted to create a quick, concise guide to three essential parts of lathe calibration, no matter what lathe you are...

Setting Groove Depth With Scales

Setting Groove Depth With Scales

Setting groove depth is one of the main goals when calibrating a lathe. For plastic cuts, we’re generally aiming for around 50–70 microns (0.05–0.07 mm). There's a few ways people...

Setting Groove Depth With Scales

Setting groove depth is one of the main goals when calibrating a lathe. For plastic cuts, we’re generally aiming for around 50–70 microns (0.05–0.07 mm). There's a few ways people...

Mono Your Low End...

Mono Your Low End...

One of the most common pieces of advice about cutting vinyl that we see online or get asked is that the low end has to be mono. It’s often treated...

Mono Your Low End...

One of the most common pieces of advice about cutting vinyl that we see online or get asked is that the low end has to be mono. It’s often treated...

A Beginners Guide To Lathe Cutting

A Beginners Guide To Lathe Cutting

We get a lot of messages from people wanting to get into lathe cutting who feel a bit lost and not sure where to start. The information is out there,...

A Beginners Guide To Lathe Cutting

We get a lot of messages from people wanting to get into lathe cutting who feel a bit lost and not sure where to start. The information is out there,...

Internal Clipping of your Cutterhead EQ

Internal Clipping of your Cutterhead EQ

One thing we see all the time when people EQ their cutterheads using software like FabFilter Pro-Q or Toneboosters Equalizer Pro is that they don’t gain stage properly before they...

Internal Clipping of your Cutterhead EQ

One thing we see all the time when people EQ their cutterheads using software like FabFilter Pro-Q or Toneboosters Equalizer Pro is that they don’t gain stage properly before they...

Black PETG Blanks and Carbon Pigment

Black PETG Blanks and Carbon Pigment

We've noticed someone saying that black PETG blanks contain ‘carbon’ that breaks diamonds. To put it simply, this just isn’t the case but like most rumours, once it starts going...

Black PETG Blanks and Carbon Pigment

We've noticed someone saying that black PETG blanks contain ‘carbon’ that breaks diamonds. To put it simply, this just isn’t the case but like most rumours, once it starts going...