Using a Fossilized Shark's Tooth to Cut a 7" Record

Is there a more iconic song? We don’t know, to be honest, but we do know one thing: the only way to make the JAWS theme more iconic is to make a record of it…USING A STYLUS CREATED FROM A FOSSILIZED SHARK TOOTH! In this video, Joe uses a fossil shark tooth he bought at Lost River Caverns to make an embossing stylus for the Presto 6DSP record lathe and use that stylus to make a 7” record of the JAWS Theme. We honestly can’t believe this worked! The tooth is mounted to a 1/16” drill bit using super glue and cut to a 100 degree angle. We’re embossing onto a PETG disc using ~45g of weight on the head. We only let the stylus break in for about 15 seconds before beginning the audio because the tooth is so soft compared to our usual steel/sapphire needles that we don’t trust it to get a good sound for longer than a few minutes.