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How to date Black Label Paiste 2002 Cymbals
With the Flats I don't think I ever I notated the changes with the patent stamps anywhere will have to look at some pics to check on that. Imo the ea...
5 years agoHow to date Black Label Paiste 2002 Cymbals
Variations of the Patent Pending stamp on preserial 602 Sound Edge Hats 1. Pat. Pending 1967 until at least July 1969 2. Patent numbers from 4 coun...
5 years agoHow to date Black Label Paiste 2002 Cymbals
Awesome - I hadn't heard that before, that the etching referred to reworks, but essentially it shows the same thing - the cymbals being modified were...
5 years agoHow to date Black Label Paiste 2002 Cymbals
Like Zenstat mentioned above, the only way I will ever come off the 1972 start date is for someone to produce a Swiss-made Giant Beat, Stambul '65, St...
5 years agoHow to date Black Label Paiste 2002 Cymbals
I have spent the last three years researching this kind of stuff and all the hard evidence is that serial numbering started in 1972. In addition to s...
5 years agoPaiste Stambul 65s
According to Paiste the first Stambuls were released in 1932 not 1956. More recent to that, the Stambuls came back out in 1947 after Paiste got back...
5 years agoA Rare vintage Paiste
re-opening this old thread to clear some things up. Paiste Stambul '65 and Stambul were always two different, distinct cymbal lines and of a differen...
5 years agoHow to date Black Label Paiste 2002 Cymbals
just updating this old thread as there are common Paiste questions here Paiste starting putting serial numbers on its cymbals in 1972 best us researc...
5 years agoOld mystery cymbals - Help?!
The first SUPERs were NS12 - the later ones were B8.
6 years agoPaiste 2002 Pre-Serial 16" Crash?
The very first 2002s had the emboss logo framed in a box (maybe those were the prototypes or the initial production cymbals from 1971) This cymbal was...
6 years agoProbably been asked before, but.....Ringo's cymbals....
by Stanoples for Paiste I think you mean Stambuls.
6 years agoPaiste 602 Germany???
From what I read in "The Cymbal Book" it seems unlikely. The book indicates Paiste didn't start making their professional lines at the Rendsburg, Germ...
6 years agoZilko Switzerland 14" high hat top?
would also like the weight on that cymbal if possible OP 14" was the largest size a Zilko came in btw
6 years agoZilko Switzerland 14" high hat top?
Paiste Zilkos are brass cymbals ~ probably made from 1947 - 1958 * I am very skeptical of that 1935 start date as on Paiste's official site they have...
6 years agoVintage 22" Paiste Stambul 65 Need Info
Just updating as I've done some more Paiste research since posting last year. The 400 was made between 1986 and 1992 or 93 which is when the 400 line...
6 years ago