A bit confusing. I hope there are more answers to this. There are
early acoustic records where repairs can be found using a loop. Also,
there are white label special ordered pressings from HMV of one of
the Pattis which, while they look like they are original, are clearly
dubs. I only know of this one.
If a dealer is doing what is described below, he is clearly
misrepresenting what he is offering for sale.
Malcolm Smith.
On Sep 8, 2008, at 8:26 AM, Michael Shoshani wrote:
> Garr Norick wrote:
>> I Know of a Record Collector who has mentioned Regrooved/Recut
>> Records in his auction lists... I asked him about this and he was
>> very vague about it... said he knew a Jeweler who had the ability
>> to do this and he sometimes had him do this to rare records in not
>> so good condition to make them salable, but was very vague about
>> it otherwise... does anyone here know anything about this
>> technology? could they tell me? Thanks in advance :)
>
> It sounds as though someone might have done some repair to a
> damaged groove. I've never heard of this being done to a shellac or
> vinyl pressing, but it was actually quite common for metal parts.
> A metal positive (mother) would have some sort of damage to a
> groove, and a skilled technician with a loupe and a (presumably
> jeweled) stylus tool would re-engrave the groove at that point by
> hand.
>
> Dr. Oliver Read's book on sound recording has a photographic
> explanation of the whole process for mastering, plating and
> stamping phonorecords, and this groove repair process is
> illustrated. The record illustrated in this process appears to be
> MICROGROOVE, so someone somewhere learned to have very steady hands
> and nerves.
>
> (I suppose it was cheaper to do it that way than just recut the
> lacquer and do new platings?)
>
> Michael Shoshani
> Chicago IL
>
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