Turns out I was cutting my grooves way too deep for months, and a $12 scale from Harbor Freight showed me why

Morgan Hayes · 2026-10-03T23:05:02.951381+00:00

I kept getting distortion on the inner tracks of my lathe cuts and blamed my stylus, but then I weighed the chip and it was nearly double what it should be. Anyone else running a Presto or similar and figured out their depth the hard way?

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