I’ve been playing around lately with hammering on a cutdown cracked ZBT with some mixed results, and today decided to try swinging a hammer at a real cymbal.
The victim is a 1980’s 20” A medium crash weighing a not so medium 2452 grams. It wasn’t a bad sounding cymbal to begin with but it took such a blow to open up as a crash that it would throw off your timing compared to other cymbals and was too high pitched to be a pleasant to play ride for more than a few measures. I read a few online resources on hammering which suggested that bottom hammering would lower tension, so I started with that working from the edge in an inch at a time rotating the cymbal as if it was an 8 lug drum being tuned.
It needs to rest to get a real idea of what I’ve accomplished, but it sounds promising. Lower pitched and much easier to open up now.
Anybody have any experience with home rehammering and have any tips to share of what to do or not do? I’d really appreciate any direct reports of others experiences before I give this one another go
The victim is a 1980’s 20” A medium crash weighing a not so medium 2452 grams. It wasn’t a bad sounding cymbal to begin with but it took such a blow to open up as a crash that it would throw off your timing compared to other cymbals and was too high pitched to be a pleasant to play ride for more than a few measures. I read a few online resources on hammering which suggested that bottom hammering would lower tension, so I started with that working from the edge in an inch at a time rotating the cymbal as if it was an 8 lug drum being tuned.
It needs to rest to get a real idea of what I’ve accomplished, but it sounds promising. Lower pitched and much easier to open up now.
Anybody have any experience with home rehammering and have any tips to share of what to do or not do? I’d really appreciate any direct reports of others experiences before I give this one another go