Correct me if I'm wrong, but last I heard, an electric lathe is a power tool.

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It's not terribly different, just a bit more milling and less lathe work:

First I've never said anything about recording straight to vinyl. Second your just plain wrong that no one records to analog anymore. Yes it's cheaper and easier to do digital. But many sound engineers still prefer using analog in the mastering process. Do a simple search...you'll find plenty of articles and videos by sound engineers discussing the still on going debate (yes in 2012) of analog vs digital.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcogbpdNTlY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_mastering

Yes they use a computer while cutting the master...but they clearly say the computer is "monitoring" the process and makes adjustments to the "spacing" between the grooves. Letting the computer make adjustments to the "space" between the grooves has nothing to do with the transfer of the audio to the grooves.

>> ^schlub:

Dude, it's 2012... no one records straight to vinyl or other analogue medium anymore. It's cheaper and easier to use a digital medium. Besides, in the video you can clearly see the master is cut using a computer which is displaying the waveform -- it's basically a CNC lathe. Audio can't be stored on a computer in analogue form. Unless that's one of those new-fangled analogue computers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer

Dude, it's 2012... no one records straight to vinyl or other analogue medium anymore. It's cheaper and easier to use a digital medium. Besides, in the video you can clearly see the master is cut using a computer which is displaying the waveform -- it's basically a CNC lathe. Audio can't be stored on a computer in analogue form. Unless that's one of those new-fangled analogue computers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer
>> ^Grimm:

Didn't I say I must have missed that part?
Now where is the part where they said the source was digital?>> ^schlub:
9:35 - BAM!
>> ^Grimm:
I must have missed where he said "refuse to buy into the digital revolution". What I heard him say was "some say they sound better then digital CDs and MP3s".>> ^schlub:
People "refuse to buy into the digital revolution" by purchasing an analogue medium produced from a digital source. Yeah, good work.

>> ^dag:

Don't understand how solar flares keep revolvers from working. >> ^Payback:
It's probably solar flares. The locket thing is some kind of shielded power cell.



It's 15 years later with no lathes, electric tools or CAD/CAM machines to make spare parts or bullets. Hand made guns would be rampant. People would probably be hoarding the "good stuff" for military actions and guarding the Warlords. Glorified sheriffs like the ones pictured would just have flintlocks because that's all you'd need against bows and arrows.

Just my logic talking. I have no clue what the actual reason is. Probably the Black Smoke Monster.

Dude has the best-tasting lathe in three counties.

I think the hardest part here would be getting the base to stick to the lathe.

Seriously cool stuff...although the lathe should spin faster to avoid those lopsided bits we see.

Presumably that's an adjustable parameter, and was slowed down just to make the action more obvious.

I'm with you, this would be a blast to play with. The lathe was always my favorite tool.

^Yeah, I thought the same thing when I watched it. Probably better off with a Chocolate CNC lathe.

Reminds me of the Road-Runner cartoon where Wile E. Coyote cut down a whole tree and lathed it up to make a single baseball bat.

Wasteful yet strangely awesome.

Any grandpa with a lathe is a good grandpa to have.