Radiohead and The Velvet Underground pressed on wooden vinyl

Following news that Jack White is to release the upcoming The Great Gatsby soundtrack on actual platinum and gold discs, an American nanotechnology whiz has decided to do one better and produce the first ever vinyl record cut onto ply wood by a 3D laser printer.

Amanda Ghassaei from Instructables has produced wooden vinyl LPs of Radiohead and The Velvet Underground, featuring tracks ‘Idioteque’, ‘Sunday Morning’ and ‘Femme Fatale’.

Ghassaei explains a little bit of the details:

“These records were cut on an Epilog 120 Watt Legend EXT to a theoretical precision of 1200dpi (thekerf of the cut and some tricks I used to avoid crashing the laser cutter dropped the actual precision down by ~1/6). The audio on the records has a bit depth between 4-5 (typical mp3 audio is 16 bit) and a sampling rate up to about 4.5kHz (mp3 is 44.1kHz).”

You can listen to the delightfully grainy results of the tracks below:

‘Idioteque’

‘Femme Fatale’

[via FACT]