Daily Archives: October 2, 2007

In another attempt to reduce needle vibration in the longer needle arms, we are experimenting with tubing made from material other than metals. Today I constructed two new needle arms; one from acrylic and one from epoxy tubing. We hope that the dampening properties of plastics may reduce vibration at […]

We’ve been practicing picokeystoning with a very long arm that Dave made.  Although it works, the cuts are rougher than we’d like because of vibration. The vibration has never been a problem with short arms, but very small vibrations on the needle are probably amplified because they are out on this […]