[78-L] Spiked Edge Victor Test Pressing

[David Lennick]

I've had a number of mid 40s Columbia test pressings that had spikes, and were 
unlaminated in the bargain. Kind of fragile around the edges. Records come off 
the presses needing to be trimmed, but I don't know the reason for these spiky 
things unless as Joe suggests, it was to keep them from circulating.

dl

On 3/25/2013 6:12 PM, J. E. Knox wrote:
> Greetings from FixitLand!
>
> Clifford Bolling wrote:
>
>>> I have a 1932 Victor test pressing featuring MELODY by the Leo Reisman Orchestra.  The edge has 'spikes'.
>>>
>>> It looks like it was done while the 'wax' was still soft enought to easily cut away.
>>>
>>> What was the reason for this?  A couple of the spikes still have traces of the recording session info scratched
>>> into them.  You can see this disc on YouTube at:
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMVXT7OVlng
>>>
>>> Weird.
>
>
> To which David Lennick replied:
>
>> I'd definitely not want to be in the room when one of those was flung off a
>> Capehart.
>
> That was my line of thinking too...perhaps this was intended to prevent playing on a changer. (Remember that changers of the time flung the played disc into a bin.) Or someone wanted to be extra EXTRA sure the test-cut grooves couldn't be played. I've not seen such a thing on a test pressing or any other record before, let alone done at the pressing plant.
>
> Weird indeed!
>
> Take care,
>
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> Joe
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