Auspicious
Silver Member
Ok I am not proud of that .. and my mess but.. I have a 20"K cymbal and a couple years ago I buried it in the ground in the hope of improving it's sound with patina and turning it to a nice uniform brown color. So to give you an history about 18 years ago, I cleaned that cymbal with Zildjian cleaner, it turned polished bright and the cleaner left some kind of protection on it, preventing it to oxidize, obviously.
I never really liked that cymbal except for it's crash which has some good wash to it.. but the sound of it does not match the rest of my cymbals..
So I sent it on a 1 year trip directly into the ground. Again foolish mistake, that's was not the way to burry the cymbal into the ground, I learned after that they should be in a wooden box not directly IN the earth.. etc.
So now I took the cymbal out (3 years ago) and I still dont like it very much, the sound is better then before, it lost some annoying complexity but the stains on it, I am not sure it's even patina.
I don't know what to do with it, but now since we are well passed the point of no return, I would like to know how to turn it all dark brown like a real "earth" line ride.
Any ideas how to do that?
I never really liked that cymbal except for it's crash which has some good wash to it.. but the sound of it does not match the rest of my cymbals..
So I sent it on a 1 year trip directly into the ground. Again foolish mistake, that's was not the way to burry the cymbal into the ground, I learned after that they should be in a wooden box not directly IN the earth.. etc.
So now I took the cymbal out (3 years ago) and I still dont like it very much, the sound is better then before, it lost some annoying complexity but the stains on it, I am not sure it's even patina.
I don't know what to do with it, but now since we are well passed the point of no return, I would like to know how to turn it all dark brown like a real "earth" line ride.
Any ideas how to do that?