The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

Here is my victor fibre needle cutter I got off eBay really nice piece.

Nice I always wanted one of those

I bought a fairly similar on a while ago. I cleaned it, oiled it, sharpened it - and now use it quite a lot with fiber needles I buy on eBay.

Yea I like It lots to I saw it nobody bid on it so I thought what the heck clicked bid it and I won it. Perfect item to my victrola collection.

Congrats.

Clay

I've only ever seen one of these Victor fibre needle trimmers in the flesh, so to speak. Many years ago, I visited the home of a college friend and he showed me his Victrola and the trimmer. At the time, I was totally ignorant of antique phonographs and I didn't grasp the significance of anything phono-related (I was into "high fidelity"). But the impression has stayed with me all these years. I'd like to own one of these trimmers, in fact the owner's booklet for my VV-XI G (1917) devotes a couple of pages to the care and feeding of this device. Certainly I'd want one if I used fibre needles!

Yea I was also doing some research on this fibre needle cutter and I found the orignal owners guide copy on the internet what a surprise lol:)

I use mine all the time. It's a great little device. Here is the box it came in... James.

Wow that is so neat in the orignal box wow! that's amazing that you still have the box

OK, now I have the bug too and will be looking for a good one.

Clay