The story behind APC-2
3 days ago
- The industry relies on restored vintage lathes (e.g., Neumann VMS70/80) with a shrinking pool of maintenance experts.
- Building a new cutting lathe is extremely difficult; many have tried and failed, and critical cutting head knowledge is lost or held by very few specialists.
- Swiss inventor Flo Kaufmann is one of the few capable of producing cutting heads that match or surpass originals, but his DIALBA heads are time-consuming and limited in production.
- Recreating a cutting head from scratch is a massive, uncertain undertaking, prompting the decision to engineer an own professional record cutter.