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Steel needles-who are your favourite vendors?
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 6:00 pm
by dennman6
Just wondering where in the USA fellow collectors buy their steel needles. I've had an excellent reproducer rebuild on my Brunswick Panatrope 106 done by
www.victrolarepaircenter.com in Vermont, & bought 4 packs of needles at that time. A thousand would cost me forty-three dollars there, in the little packs of 100. I see that Wyatt's Musical Americana offers a thousande in bulk for about half that. Never tried them, don't know the quality. I'd like to try getting them in bulk-anyone had experience in doing this & were you satisfied with the quality of the needles? I'm looking for soft tone mostly, possibly would get an equal number of medium tone as well.
Dennis Forkel
Re: Steel needles-who are your favourite vendors?
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:36 pm
by Brad
I buy them by the the thousand from Wyatt's. I have always been very pleased.
Re: Steel needles-who are your favourite vendors?
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:22 pm
by dennman6
Thank you Brad. I appreciate the recommendation. Wonder if I could just send them an empty coffee can & tell 'em to "fill 'er up"...
Re: Steel needles-who are your favourite vendors?
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 7:29 pm
by AZ*
The last batch I bought in bulk was from:
http://www.zwarteschijf.nl/
Excellent quality, reasonable price.
I also like Mike Child's needles (seller "soundgen" on ebay). His quality is excellent, and the price is very good when you buy direct in large quantities.
http://gramophoneneedles.blogspot.com/
He sells 4 different types: loud, medium, soft, extra soft. His extra soft is similar to other vendors' soft. I like his soft tone needles for my Orthophonic and saxophone horn machines.
These sellers are not in the USA, but they ship promptly, and you get your merchandise in a week or 10 days.