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 →Cartridge alignment protractor
Baerwald, Löfgren and Stevenson geometries with a scale-check square. Not published yet: half the complaints about printable protractors are about scale, and this one goes out when a real print has been measured, not before.
Not yet publishedStrobe disc, 33⅓ and 45
For 50 Hz and 60 Hz mains. Same reason for the wait: it is only useful if it prints at exactly the right diameter.
Not yet published