Mike Senese shows you how to pirate vinyl by casting it in silicone. [Mike via Make]
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Next on BB: The UK Government outlaws silicone.
How long til the RIAA takedown?
I love it!
Though in my opinion there's a missing step 0; make sure the record is super-clean first!
Time to plug the silicone hole. How can the sale of silicone be legal if there's a chance of violating copyright with it?
..and possibly use something vibrate-y to loosen the poured-plastic into the silicon cast, to remove air bubbles.
It would be vastly cheaper to buy more copies, though it looks like a fun project.
must stock up on silicon NOW
note to self: order two sets of shelves to hold both sides of pirated copies
Home casting is killing music!
"It would be vastly cheaper to buy more copies, though it looks like a fun project."
..more copies from where? I have tons of out-of-print records that won't be reprinted any time soon.
eBay.
The company that makes the silicone and plastics for this trick has a bit more on casting records (78s in this case):
http://www.smooth-on.com/gallery.php?galleryid=157
This is awesome luck. Just yesterday actually I remembered my grandfather's record, the only recording I think we have of his voice. He made an old 45 back in the 40's singing some italian songs, and we have one copy only.
I had wanted to copy the record somehow to preserve his voice, and give to other family members. It's a priceless thing to me to hear my beloved but long passed grandfather singing.
Thank you so much for posting this- I will try to use this method to save my grandfather's voice from rotting away!
Find an article on using wood glue to thoroughly clean a record. Probably also in Make magazine.
Not to snark, but I find having to click on the "comments" link on the main page for these title-less articles rather than the usual click on the title link, to be inconvenient, and also non-intuitive...
Wood glue on my Sun Ra white labels?
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