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Reinforcing a crack-Good, bad or stupid?
Here is a video link for this tig welded rock crash, the sound is just fine imo [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfmXnjhOly8&feature=c4-overview&l...
11 years agoReinforcing a crack-Good, bad or stupid?
Ok well here is a pic of the zildjian A rock crash I welded today. Very similar to the damage described by the OP. Welding the entire crack would have...
11 years agoReinforcing a crack-Good, bad or stupid?
I TIG weld mine, and they sound good IMO and my customers agree. A small crack as you described is not to hard to repair. As far a people laser weldin...
11 years agoUp'n coming vintage Paiste repair project
sounds nice! iphone's have nice mics lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkQFBXb7vMk&feature=youtu.be [IMG][IMG]http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f71...
12 years agoUp'n coming vintage Paiste repair project
30 bucks shipped from ebay, not a bad deal. Hopefully I can get to it this week. Should be sweet. I welded a blue label sound formula thin crash a few...
12 years agoVintage 505 20" crash, repaired
Yep, I got this cymbal off ebay, it had a good sized crack, which I welded up and now this girl sings! Love saving these from a lathe or worse! And wi...
12 years agohome made 16" hats
Thanks man! Yeah, so I used them at practice yesterday, sweet, sweet sweet, they have so much volume and just the right tone, I started riding on them...
12 years agohome made 16" hats
Bottom hat is an old Paiste 502 bronze power crash, top hat is old Sabian PRO series studio crash. Both of these were cracked when I got them. I tig w...
12 years agoJammin with my Paiste 101 blue label vintage hats
Actually I repaired those hats a few years ago, the welds are just fine lol. Those 101 blue label's are a copper nickel zinc alloy, also called German...
12 years agoJammin with my Paiste 101 blue label vintage hats
So this is me trying to play (part of) Danzig's "twist of cain" with my harp and drums. Been playing the harmonica for 8 days now lol, those old Paist...
12 years agoDent repair
Here is a really nifty 14" B8 pro medium hi hat I put some dent's into,lol, to get that" sound edge" style of bottom hat. I use this with my Marathon...
12 years agoPaiste 2002 black label, vintage?
Yeah I only paid 26 delivered for this yeah a big score lol. Although thinner cymbals flex more and respond quicker, they have less mass and thus les...
12 years agoPaiste 2002 black label, vintage?
If I would have cut the crack out it would have ended up an 8" splash lol, although as thin as this cymbal is, it would make a great spalsh, but it ma...
12 years agoPaiste 2002 black label, vintage?
Hey guys I got this really sweet Paiste 2002 black label 16" thin crash from ebay, it had a nasty crack and then another really small one. I welded th...
12 years agoSo I got this cymbal off EBAY....
Alright so to answer a few questions, I use a bronze filler metal, and dead zones are not an issue that I have witnessed. Now I started to work on th...
12 years ago