Here's a solid African Blackwood record puck.
400g, bound for The Netherlands.
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Looks lovely and quality in equal measure :thumbsup:
Thanks Robbie!
It's a beautifully hard wood.
On Insta you can see a couple of creation and going round and round vids..[emoji3]
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Very Shun Mook alike.
I made the first one to a shape a customer wanted. Shun Moon who? [emoji1]Quote:
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Can I just say - brilliantly made - superb value - buy from this guy with confidence
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Next project (one of 5 for this customer!).
An armpod with armboards for a Fidelity Research FR64s and AS Aquila tonearms.
Here are the pics under construction so far.
Cast lead filled for good mass, ebony armboards and adjustable knurled brass feet (this time with composite cones).
Feet
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Machining the armboards
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Machining the armpod tube
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Machining the armbase and arm pillar fitting
Trial fitting the armboards
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Armboards and tube (unfinished)
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Armboards ready for mounting drillings
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Armtube filled, fine rubbed down and priming before satin black lacquer is applied
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Here is the finished Armpod.
Nice and heavy. Good range of height adjustability and levelling via the feet.
Fitted with interchangeable armboards for a Fidelity Research FR64s (as pictured) and an AS Aquila tonearm.
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Quick one before Christmas.
Armblock spacer for a Platine Verdier armblock.
You'll recall the solid aluminium one I machined out of a solid lump of billet Aluminium? - this is for one of the wooden armblock types.
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A pair of Micro Seiki style armboards in progress.
Made from solid ebony
One will be AX-5G and the other AX-8G format.
From lump to shaped. More to follow..
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Update on the Microseiki solid ebony arm mounts.
Thicknessed, pillar clamps in bronze made and fitted.
One drilled for Fidelity Research FR64s tonearm. The other left blank.
Finished and polished.
For the same customer as the lead filled armpod above.
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Fidelity Research FR64s/FR66s damper weight.
Fitted
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Ebony record puck / weight.
Added cast lead inside increases the mass to circa 720g.
Bound for the USA.
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Lots of projects on the way..
Headshell spacers in copper.
3@3mm thick. 1@4mm thick
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Shaping and machining a pair of armlift carriers. One for Audio Technica AT-1503 and the other ATP-16t.
More to follow
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After shaping and machining, drilling and threading comes the polishing.
Here's the first of a pair of armlift carriers.
This one for Audio Technica AT-1503
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Here are the pair before polishing. Note the larger arm pillar drilling for the beefy 1503 diameter.
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Here's the second Audio Technica armlift / clip carrier.
This one is for the AT-16T.
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Here's a pair of extra weights to original specs, that screw in to the end of the Kenwood L-07D direct drive turntable and tonearm.
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Here's an armboard for a TW Acustic turntable in solid ebony.
This will be used with a Reed3p tonearm.
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Here is one of the sub-weights I made for a Kenwood L-07D Direct Drive Turntable.
Pictured on the customers tonearm.
Always nice to see stuff working in-situ.
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Here's a pair of Tannoy GRF style cabs I made for a customer in Belgium (years back).
They are back with me for a modification to the input (going, DSP bi-amp active, but with the passive capability retained), and a refinish, as they were left for a good long while during a holiday with the sun streaming in on them under a hot sun.
The passive / active set up
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I've been setting up the DSP system that will do the crossover and HF filter necessary to tame the Tannoy horn tweeter.
This route benefits from not using an L-Pad to lower the dB of the tweeter to that of the bass, and also the filter I mentioned is not a passive component one.
Another benefit is being able to run an amplifier most suitable for the tweeter (a EL84 SET amp has been chosen) and a Quad solid state amp for the bass.
Different damping factors can be used to optimum driver control / sound.
I will be setting up the sound side with further measurements and listening tests once the finish is restored.
Here the fade before treatment (actually looks worse in daylight).
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First remove the varnish..
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Then treat with specialist wood bleach..
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Further treatment will be done as necessary, before neutralisation of the bleach and then staining and re-varnishing.
More to follow..
Some other jobs.
African Blackwood SL-1210 armboard and fitting kit of to Scotland.
For a Rega OL arm
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Here's a couple of Rega 3 point Arm spacers 6mm and 9mm thick, made from solid ebony.
Replace the multi layered and hole one that Rega supply, also pictured.
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Customer fitted and sent this report to me.
"Just a little note to say that I fitted the ebony base you made to my RB303 yesterday. Listened to it last night. The improvement is massive.
I was bracing myself a little because it's a big faff for me to change the shim, as my tone arm is hard-wired in and it’s very difficult to get to the soldered joints and re-solder.* So, I didn’t much want to have to remove it again if it didn’t work. I was also expecting it to be ’too much’.
Every Rega owner should have these things. The difference is so huge. Detail as never before. It's like adding a mega cartridge, phono stage or even a new TT!
I have a superb phono stage and use a 2M Black as a cart, which isn’t bad. But I’m getting a properly high end sound now. So much more detail and less stridency. No more etched highs.*
It’s given my home-made TT a new lease of life, and will keep me happy for a couple more years while I save for a Vertere MG1 or a TMS3!
I am hugely grateful to you.
Kind regards,
Richard"
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Horn to driver adapters for TAD TD-4003 1.5" drivers to 2 inch throat horns.
Tractrix profile.
Drilled for M6 bolts. Plenty of room to fit them in suitable length bolts.
Off to the USA soon.
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Here's a solid brass extension counterweight for a SME tonearm.
Festures a Whitworth threaded spigot set in nylon damper.
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2 Audio Technica AT-12T armlift holders bound for Vienna.
Easy cueing.
These are made for the Jelco armlift, the customer will source these as one source is local to them.
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Brass work.
4 equipment feet in turned brass with threaded fixing, washers and nuts.
Also large Vitavox S2 threaded compression driver to horn mounting adapters. First one hewn out and roughly turned from a massive 4.5" diameter chunk of brass bar!
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Equipment feet in brass now polished.
Both large brass Vitavox S2 compression driver adapter fitting rings faced off and circumferenced. Thread cutting and mounting holes and edge polish to do.
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Slight change in requirements on the Vitavox S2 screw on adapters.
The customer's original idea of a walnut ring did not plan out, so 2 rings in brass were made that bolt to the adapters (now look much more like the usual screw on aluminium adapters - this allows for throat alignment and tightening of the bolts).
The brass rings are secured to the horns by 4 countersunk wood screws.
Fun turning project.
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Making a few upgrades for this Sorane SA 1.2 tonearm.
The original armbase didn't allow the arm to go low enough - the armlift pot fouled on the base.
It was also too loose and shallow, so tightening the securing grub screw put it out of alignment.
I've made a close tolerance brass armbase. The arm pillar is now a nice smooth, close fit and much deeper.
The moon shaped cut out to allow the arm to go lower is now in the right place too.
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I've also been busy whizzing up a solid ebony, Technics SL-1210 armboard for a Origin Conquer arm.
Off to West Yorkshire for this one.
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Sorane SA 1.2 extra heavy counterweight in brass is now ready.
This is 250g and features a grubscrew for the underside channel and one for the side as well.
This is 2nd of 3 pieces I'll be turning for this tonearm.
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The owner of the Sorane SA 1.2 tonearm was finding it hard to get to the knurled base tightening nuts - you can see why!
So I whizzed up a couple of female threaded cap/hex headed nuts instead. Now a regular 6 sided Allen key (the rounded snub nosed type is even better) can be used with ease. They also have a composite bonded ring washer to cushion against the armbase.
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A couple of small, lighter than the original 5g anti skate weights.
Weighing 3.2 and 2.65g.
Customers were finding they could not get proper tracking on higher compliance cartridges with the original.
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6 shouldered armbase spacers in stainless steel for Hugo / Ammonite Audio.
Plus a few pics of the making.
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Two solid ebony armboards bound for the USA.
Will fit to a Technics SP-10 deck.
Almost 7" X 5" X 3/4"
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First up is an extra heavy SME screw on counterweight.
Same diameter as the original.
180g. Whitworth screw thread.
Clear lacquered brass
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Here's a solid ebony armboard for a Micro Seiki deck.
SME arm fitting with M3 blind nut inserts, for the armbase.
Extra thick at 39mm
For 12" arms
Clamps onto the deck's mounting pillar
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The pair of lock down Tannoy GRF replicas are almost finished.
Premium birch plywood throughout and finished in natural wax polish.
These are my own taller, narrower design. Computer modelled to retain the same back loaded horn characteristics as the original design.
Customer can't collect yet, as locked down in Leicester at the moment!
Just the grille covers to go.
These feature the tear drop bass clean up baffle.
Wired for external crossovers and bi-amping
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Here's a extra screw on counterweight screw on a Garrard deck with
Acos Lustre GST 1 tonearm.
I also fitted the arm to this plinthed Garrard deck and drilled a spare armboard for a Rega arm.
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The pair of Tannoy GRF replicas are now finished.
Latest pics Inc. half grilles finished using classic Marshall black amp grille cloth.
Premium birch plywood throughout and finished in natural wax polish.
These are my own taller, narrower design. Computer modelled to retain the same back loaded horn characteristics as the original design.
These feature the tear drop bass clean up baffle.
Wired for external crossovers and bi-amping
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Here are a pair of Le Cleach profiled tweeter horns I turned for Simon Mears Audio.
To fit 1" Altec 802 compression tweeter drivers.
Turned from Poplar wood, sealed and then lacquered.
Brass mounting plates are used instead of integral wooden discs as the driver has two threaded mounting bolts, and it's tight with the Le Cleach profile getting the securing nuts on otherwise.
Fun project.
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Here's the USA customer deck pic of his Technics SP-10 with slate bed and the sizeable solid ebony armboard I made for him.
Always nice to see where these creations end up.
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Customer pictures of the solid Ebony armboard for Technics SL-1210GR record deck fitted with Acoustic Signature TA-500 tonearm. Tight but doable.
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Here's an ebony armboard and fitting job for a gloss black plinthed SP-10.
The thin copper mat, and tall Stax arm and base, meant with the existing MDF veneered armboard was not low enough.
The Stax arm was very interesting. I've not seen one before.
3 interchangeable arm tubes. 2 S shaped and one straight.
Nice setup.
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Here's an Armpod and counterweight job that made it to Oz in record time (thanks Transglobal Express).
It's an ultra low but larger diameter pod, full of cast lead for high mass.
2 interchangeable armboards, one for Rega 3 point and one for Linn.
Finished in satin black lacquer and natural ebony.
The stainless steel counterweight is an Alphason heavy work nylon damper insert.
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In the making
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Turning the feet discs
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Heavy counterweight
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This one was bound for Hong Kong
A super heavyweight record puck in polished ebony and gunmetal.
Features ebony cores sunk into the gunmetal.
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Here is the low rider wide armpod mounted up in the customer's system in Australia.
Rega RB2000 tonearm.
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Hi Marco, arm boards for Thorens TD150 mark I and markII?
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Yes can be done. Private Message me.
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Here's an armboard replication in aluminium. 10mm thick.
From finish to start.
Black lacquer and M3 caphead bolts for SME armbase mounting.
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Etch primer phase. This gives a secure base on the aluminium for the top coats of lacquer.
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The bare aluminium board. All fitting holes and shaping done
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Cut to shape. Alongside the wooden board it will replace
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Will be posted off once the lacquer is fully hardened.