When you make an actual record you cut an acetate of each side on a record cutting lathe, which this product is a toy miniature version of. Each acetate looks

When you make an actual record you cut an acetate of each side on a record cutting lathe, which this product is a toy miniature version of. Each acetate looks like a one-sided vinyl record only bigger (it's got margin around the edge). You can take that to a club and play it, but normally you take the pair to a pressing plant. They make a metal mould of each one and use them to press the vinyl records. When I was a teenager in 1979 my band made a single on our own indie label. We got to go to see the legendary cutting engineer Porky in London near Oxford Circus and watched him cut the pair of acetates. Like all his work he scratched "A Porky prime cut" into the run out area.