Extensive Disk Recording Lathe Modifications: Fairchild Model 199 converted to Stereo with Caruso Feedback Cutter Head!

Back in 2015, we started a big lathe project, taking a beat-up Fairchild lathe from the 1930's, fitting it with an RCA cutter head, and eventually going full-on with a stereophonic feedback cutter head, vacuum clamp-down platter and automatically variable pitch.

It went from an incomplete and non-functional basement find to a professional disk mastering system within a year or so.

Read the full story on the Agnew Analog website: "Fairchild Model 199 Restoration and Modification".