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I've found this on eBay, a "Steel needle sharpener".
What about it?
http://www.ebay.it/itm/AFFILA-AGHI-PER- ... 838&_uhb=1
Steel needle sharpener
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doublemike
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Steel needle sharpener
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Victor Monarch, Columbia BK, Columbia BNW, Zonophone model 3, HMV 130
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HisMastersVoice
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Re: Steel needle sharpener
Does it actually say Steel Needle Sharpener on it somewhere? My Italian is a little rusty....
It looks like a thorn needle sharpener to me.
It looks like a thorn needle sharpener to me.
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doublemike
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Re: Steel needle sharpener
Announced as: "Affila aghi per grammofono" = "Gramophone needles sharpener". No steel mentioned...
Victor Monarch, Columbia BK, Columbia BNW, Zonophone model 3, HMV 130
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Orchorsol
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Re: Steel needle sharpener
I believe that sharpener (yes, for thorn needles) was made by Meltrope and sold as part of, or as an accessory for, a Fay Home Recorder attachment.
BCN thorn needles made to the original 1920s specifications: http://www.burmesecolourneedles.com
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Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe4DNb ... TPE-zTAJGg?
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Edisone
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Re: Steel needle sharpener
A Steel Needle Renewer (they should NOT be "sharp"!) would be a profitable and welcome invention.
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Re: Steel needle sharpener
The EMI archives contain a letter from a customer written in 1903, which reads as follows :
Dear Sirs,
Enclosed please find 360 genuine Gramophone needles. Please sharpen and return to me, letting me know as early as possible the cost, and I will send by return of post.
I am, faithfully yours,
J.Kendall,
Workington.
The company's reply is not available for reference......
Dear Sirs,
Enclosed please find 360 genuine Gramophone needles. Please sharpen and return to me, letting me know as early as possible the cost, and I will send by return of post.
I am, faithfully yours,
J.Kendall,
Workington.
The company's reply is not available for reference......
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Steve
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Re: Steel needle sharpener
That's because, much like Royal Mail, EMI likes to take its time to consider these things very carefully. A very comprehensive response is somewhere in the pipeline, or should that be post?The company's reply is not available for reference.
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Lucius1958
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Re: Steel needle sharpener
I must confess that, in my youth, I used to re-point steel needles with a hand drill and a sharpening stone...Edisone wrote:A Steel Needle Renewer (they should NOT be "sharp"!) would be a profitable and welcome invention.
(Still, early Gramophone literature mentioned the possibility of doing much the same thing: possibly one of the reasons some of those Berliners ended up so worn?)
Bill