Oakland, California based Joel Scilley is the creator of odd-shaped, natural wood, custom turntables. He prefers to use  burlwood and other uncommon woods to make these turntable masterpieces. Each turntable has a “unique character,” many using the woods natural shape and Joel Scilley builds the turntables to sound and work well. Most of the designs [...]

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Pete Verrando in an audio engineer who has 20 years of experience in Production Sound Recording for film and television. He works all over the world doing on-location recording.
Pete has built something that is part innovative, part steampunk and part crazy-geek-inventor-guy. It’s something I’ve often tossed around in my mind, but he has taken [...]

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Animator Jim Lefevre has created a bunch of special 3D discs that he set spinning using an “old fashioned turntable” to create the illusion of 3D movement.

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