Wow! Probably a hard hitter with poor technique. As a side note, better remove the link to CL. It's against forum rules brother.
Holy Crap! I've never seen that many broken crashes. How do you break 2 20" crashes??
From the Craigslist ad:
12" A Custom Splash
13" UFiP Natural Series hihat top
16" Zildjian Avedis China High
18" Sabian AAX Dark Crash
19" Zildjian A Custom Crash
20" Zildjian A Custom Crash (two of them)
All are in various states of repair. The AAX and one of the 20" crashes have cracks along arcs that are harder to repair. The 12", 16", 19" and one of the 20" have rough repairs that you could tidy up with a Dremel.
$45 takes the lot. Honestly, the (roughly) repaired splash, china and crashes are better sounding than entry-level stuff by a significant margin.
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Wow! Probably a hard hitter with poor technique. As a side note, better remove the link to CL. It's against forum rules brother.
If these cymbals were actually damaged due to playing drums, I don't know if this is a technique problem or if the drummer is simply buying the wrong type of cymbal for what he/she is trying to accomplish musically.
If a person had a lathe and knew how to use it, maybe some of these could be salvaged...maybe.
Yeah, a couple of those have actual chunks removed, as opposed to a hairline fracture that's expanded over time. To me that says poor technique - digging the stick into the cymbal while riding on the edge, too tight of a grip, perhaps the cymbals are clamped down to hard. Normally when I see chunks missing it's because the player is riding on a crash cymbal and doesn't know how to control the swing of the cymbal, so the stick is hitting when the cymbal is already flexed as far as it can go and it just breaks.
To avoid this, I'd check to make sure the cymbals were mounted properly and work on stick placement and grip technique!
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Looks like something took a couple bites out of them. Didn't know you could play cymbals with sharks and alligators.
I think dt344 nailed it with his post.
What a shame. Looks like a lot of Travis Barker action going on. Everybody has their own style, which I'm cool with. But unless your rich, I would re-look at your technique and how your mounting your cymbals. Looks like you mount them flat and strike downward and through the edge crashing through the center of the cymbal. Probably mounted to tight on the stand to prevent swing back as well. And of course hitting them way to hard. A cymbal only needs a certain amount of force to emit their sound. Any more force is a waste of energy, and of course, money.
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Whatever happened, here is the simple answer :
Carelessness and abuse.
That guy should be locked up for four years with a Cannon cymbal pack.
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It could also be that the Canadian bronze isn't as rugged. I once found 7 Sabian cymbals beside a dumpster behind a music school in Toronto . All cracked but I still have them.
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He said 'even the repaired ones sound better than entry level cymbals' . My thought is; if you're destroying cymbals like that, you should consider using B8's or Wuhans.....something a little more economical. It's like using a Cadillac Escalade to haul fire wood. I guess if you have the money, go for it!
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Or improper technique, or some combination thereof. Myself, I'm leaning towards flat out abuse of the cymbals.
Case in point: before I got the awesome cymbal collection I have now, I was stuck with very cheap, piece of junk stock cymbals which came with my drum kit. I hated those cymbals so much, I went out of my way to try to break them.
Long story short: countless torn up (and broken!) sticks, hours, and endless frustration later, those hated cymbals are still in almost pristine condition!
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Melt-down candidates for the company that makes snare drums from old cymbals!
Trade them in for new (Saluda does that).
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I'd offer him $30.00 for them and make some home stacks out of them for some different sounds.
Quite honestly I don't think they are worth that - maybe one or two of them may be suitable for a stack. The 19 and 20 crashes could be cut down for a cheap hi hat bottom or maybe a bell. but that would only be worthwhile if you own quality cutting/grinding equipment and have the time to salvage them.
It may be worth asking the guy if he would consider selling separately if one or two look like good candidates for salvage.
I wonder what the scrap value of b20 bronze is?
dump em in this.
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