Everything Zildjian

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Some of my beauties got a bath today. The rest will get cleaned during the week.

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A great collection and looking brand new.
Ok, here are my tin cans

[Mike Foreman]

Some of my beauties got a bath today. The rest will get cleaned during the week.

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Beautiful!

Could you describe the bath process? Clearly your method works.

[Thrush]

Anyone ever seen this before: spotted a pair of Dyno Beat's while scrolling through eBay, but I've never seen any with additional vent holes before. Nothing in the description about them being custom (or about them at all) and looking at the pics, although hard to tell as they're not the highest res, they don't look home-made

[Drumming-4-Life]

Beautiful! Could you describe the bath process? Clearly your method works.

Thanks Mike! I swear I replied to your question previously, but I don't see it... so here it goes. I have a wash-tub in the laundry room... so I use it for cleaning and rinsing. I use diluted cymbal cleaner, either the old Sabian spray or Kick'N Brass, but they are both discontinued now. When I run out of them, I'm going to Groove Juice... recommended by Chris at Drums on Sale. I use 1 bottle of cleaner to 2 bottles of water. I also use a foaming sprayer, but I'm still working on finding the perfect one. I spray both sides of the cymbal and work the cleaner all around with a soft towel. After I think both sides have been cleaned by the acid, I rinse the cymbal thoroughly and dry the cymbal with several towels. Each towel drier than the next. After cleaning 20 cymbals, the third drying towel is still pretty dry, which means I'm drying the cymbals pretty thoroughly. That's it. I used Groove Juice during my visit to Drums on Sale, and I can say it is far less caustic than the old Sabian spray or Kick'N Brass... those two products gave off fumes that were very difficult to tolerate.

[TMdrums]

Beautiful!

Could you describe the bath process? Clearly your method works.

Agree! Those cymbals look awesome! Great collection!

[Drumming-4-Life]

Agree! Those cymbals look awesome! Great collection!

Thanks TM... that's only (literally) half of it. I would post my full collection here, but it's 14 pics... and I don't want to have to make 4 posts for that (only 4 pics per post).

[Mike Foreman]

Thanks Mike! I swear I replied to your question previously, but I don't see it... so here it goes. I have a wash-tub in the laundry room... so I use it for cleaning and rinsing. I use diluted cymbal cleaner, either the old Sabian spray or Kick'N Brass, but they are both discontinued now. When I run out of them, I'm going to Groove Juice... recommended by Chris at Drums on Sale. I use 1 bottle of cleaner to 2 bottles of water. I also use a foaming sprayer, but I'm still working on finding the perfect one. I spray both sides of the cymbal and work the cleaner all around with a soft towel. After I think both sides have been cleaned by the acid, I rinse the cymbal thoroughly and dry the cymbal with several towels. Each towel drier than the next. After cleaning 20 cymbals, the third drying towel is still pretty dry, which means I'm drying the cymbals pretty thoroughly. That's it. I used Groove Juice during my visit to Drums on Sale, and I can say it is far less caustic than the old Sabian spray or Kick'N Brass... those two products gave off fumes that were very difficult to tolerate.

Thanks for all the details, Matt. That's quite the process!

[Drumming-4-Life]

Thanks for all the details, Matt. That's quite the process!

It actually goes very quickly once I'm all set up. To clean all of my cymbals I have up on the kit (currently 19), it usually takes 1.5-2 hours, maybe a little less. Smaller cymbals only take a couple minutes, while bigger ones take about 5-7 minutes each.

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I think I will bake a cymbal cake today

[Cheez_Whiz]

What is that? I've cooked some salt encrusted fish dishes before, but that seems a bit odd. What is the application and what are you hoping to achieve?

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Bar keeper with a special ingredient. Just an experiment

[Thrush]

Picked these two up. First one about a month ago, second one yesterday afternoon. Both the same model, but due the variances in Zildjian's cymbals, they're both different pitches, so not too dissimilar in the pitch difference between the 17" Medium and Medium-Thin A crashes I have. Sold a 16" A Medium crash on Thursday afternoon, then bought the second Z Custom that evening (and collected it today since it was only 12 drive minutes away in the next town, result!). One thing interesting about them is the visual difference isn't just photo/lighting deep. The first one is a 1999 and the second is 1995, and the older one has more defined, wider lathing (more like an A) and the stamps, although the same design, are noticeable different in the stamping method; the 1999 version has much more defined stamping, whereas the older on makes it look like it was hand hammered. My 2000 Z Custom hi hats match the 1999 crash for lathe and stamping marks.

Just need a pair of matching 18" Medium crashes now...

[AL PERCIVAL]

Picked these two up. First one about a month ago, second one yesterday afternoon. Both the same model, but due the variances in Zildjian's cymbals, they're both different pitches, so not too dissimilar in the pitch difference between the 17" Medium and Medium-Thin A crashes I have. Sold a 16" A Medium crash on Thursday afternoon, then bought the second Z Custom that evening (and collected it today since it was only 12 drive minutes away in the next town, result!). One thing interesting about them is the visual difference isn't just photo/lighting deep. The first one is a 1999 and the second is 1995, and the older one has more defined, wider lathing (more like an A) and the stamps, although the same design, are noticeable different in the stamping method; the 1999 version has much more defined stamping, whereas the older on makes it look like it was hand hammered. My 2000 Z Custom hi hats match the 1999 crash for lathe and stamping marks.

Just need a pair of matching 18" Medium crashes now...

The "*" pattern design to me anyway, have always been the best musical sounding (and looking IMHO) of the Z series!

[insane65]

Agreed Al. I still have my Z Custom 18 Rock Crash from that era. Much better sounding than the gongs that Zildjian changed that line into

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Agreed Al. I still have my Z Custom 18 Rock Crash from that era. Much better sounding than the gongs that Zildjian changed that line into

I'm not a fan of the later Z Custom (and Z3 range) with the round hammering and deep grooves. But the first gen Z Custom's I really like. I replaced a set of A Custom hi hats with some Z Custom hi hats and they're so much nicer (to me).

The "*" pattern design to me anyway, have always been the best musical sounding (and looking IMHO) of the Z series!

I have a Light Power ride (original Z range) with that 5-point star hammering