recycled turntables - October 2022

After a long time we had some luxury (time wise) to dedicate ourselves to the turntable recycling, again. This time it was a strict concept, making mini range of the recycled turntables, inspired by Japanese fighter pilots and flying aces of World War II, Mr. Saburo Sakai, Mr. Takeo Tanimizu and others, as well as their fighter planes.

We are very glad that our good friend Artist IG @deki_ink took participation in this recycling project from the beginning, providing his support and painting chassis and sub-chassis parts of all three models; in order to resemble the original style and color schemes of Japanese Zero's WWII fighter planes, he used air-brush and different hand painting techniques.

All three models, HINOMARU, HAYATE NAKAJIMA and DIVINE WIND are assembled from salvaged and recycled/refurbished various parts (platter, board, motor, tone-arm, etc.) from several old turntables, Telefunken, Fisher, Siemens, Engelbert, which all were designated for garbage/waste. In order to achieve the high quality sound reproduction, parts like platter, tone-arm/internal wiring, chassis and sub-chassis of every model have been upgraded and strategically damped, while different other parts were mechanically remodeled and adjusted in order to fit each other.

HINOMARU and DIVINE WIND models are belt-driven and HAYATE NAKAJIMA is a direct drive model. All 3 models are fully manual ones, sporting both speeds, 33.33rpm and 45rpm.

We hope that future owners of these three turntables will enjoy them as much as we enjoyed making them.

DIVINE WIND