Goldmine grading flowchart
One page, record and sleeve on the same sheet: the question to ask at each step and the grade it lands on. Shops pin it by the counter; sellers grade against it instead of against their hopes.
Open and print →Print shop
Sheets made to be printed and used: at a counter, at a fair, or next to a turntable. Free, no email address, no account. Open one and print it — the page is laid out so that what comes out of the printer is the sheet and nothing else.
Print them, hand them out, put them on your own site. The one thing we ask is that the vinylai.app line at the bottom stays on the sheet, because that is the only way anyone finds where it came from.
Used record inspection checklist
What to check before money changes hands, in the order that catches the most for the least handling — and, for records bought online, the six things to ask the seller and what each one proves.
Open and print →Turntable strobe disc
For 50 Hz and 60 Hz lighting, with rings that show a 1 % error at a glance and a stopwatch method for the exact figure. A bank-card outline on the sheet checks the scale.
Open and print →Cartridge alignment protractor
Pick your turntable, or type in your tonearm's figures, and print an arc or two-point protractor drawn for it: Baerwald, Löfgren B or Stevenson. A bank-card outline on the sheet checks the scale.
Open and print →