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Originally Posted by chaser334  Hello everyone, About an hour ago, i was banging on the old skins as usual, while playing one of my favorite beats and looking at my crash I NOTICE A SMALL CRACK!!??? Now i know to most other drummers its not that big of a deal, but to me, it is. Some of you may already know that i inherited my set from my father, who died before i was born. This makes my entire set very, very sentimental to me. I am very very dismayed and frantic right now and i really am hoping that there is some way to fix this crack? does anyone know how to fix a small cymbal crack and if so please please tell me. This cymbal is very old and im sure its probobly worth alot because its from the 60's or 70's. |
Wow, That sucks Man,
To answer you're question in the kindest, gentlest, and least emotionally traumatic way I possible can (see... Like how I did that? Because by now you've figured out what I'm going to tell you... sorry.), Broken is Broken. You can't fix it. I don't know how you didn't hear it. I've got 20 or more cracked cymbals laying around. I've got 4 that are cracked, and I can hear it, but none of us have been able to find the cracks visually. No matter, they still come down. Broken is broken.
I have a suggestion. Forget the drilling. Don't do it. If this cymbal has a sentimental value, don't damage it further. Honestly, You should have never been playing on a cymbal that has value to you. Especially an old one. Here's what I suggest you do:
Take that cymbal down off the stand... And go ahead and get the rest of them off of there too. Replace them when you can, with something that you can play on. Use your imagination on the best way to display it and the rest of them in a way that involves your father. You'll have a lifelong treasure.
Here's an example that I have in my home, maybe you can get a spark of inspiration, and try make the best of a bad situation:
My Little Brother and his Fiance were killed in a car accident.. Bull****, it wasn't an accident. A drunk guy passed out behind the wheel and lost control of car, crossing into the oncoming lane, and hit my brother's car head-on. His BAL was %0.21. He walked away from it with a broken collar bone. My little brother and his Finance were pronounced dead at the scene. It was his 24th birthday and they were on the way to meet us for dinner. Anyway.. Sorry (tearing up a little)
I have this really hallway in my house. One side of it was a long non-interrupted wall with just 1 doorway at the extreme far end. I never knew what to do with this. It isn't wide enough for chairs big furniture pieces. It was too much wall to put art-work on , and didn't want people loitering there anyway. My Bedroom, office, and studio were the only things down there besides a bathroom at the end. I never a good idea so I left it white. Well, after the accident, I figured out what to do with it. My brother was an amazing young guitarist. He really played 30+ instruments, but guitar was his thing. He graduated from GIT at 20. He was also and extremely talented painter/artist/sculptor and was in art school at that time.
You'll have to picture this, I have no camera. The hall was 5' wide and over 30'L. I painted walls Satin Black. In center of the wall & 12" below the ceiling is the top of a 48"dia Crimson Red Circle painted on the wall. Mounted in the center is a 36"x36" Painting he did a few weeks earlier, His final piece. Sitting on the floor, directly below the Painting and against the wall, is his favorite thing in the world: his Soldano 1/2 Stack Amp. I had 6 large copper shadow boxes built roughly the size of a guitar case, with glass doors, lights inside, and lined in Crimson Red Felt. At 4' on either side on the amp and painting hangs a copper box containing one of his favorite electric Guitars, 2 more are hung outside of these evenly space at 4' intervals. These 6 copper boxes are space out evenly down the entire length of the of the wall, each holding one of his guitars, even his ****ty Baby-blue Peavy Tracer, his first guitar that I always hated. There are 3 on each of the amp. In the 2 spaces between them hangs an enlarged 16x22 photo of him performing with his band at different times. So what used to be a long white wall is now black with 6 copper boxes, lines in red holding 1 each of his guitars, 4 large photos in copper frames, of him playing live. His Soldier 1/2 stack middle in the middle and above it, a large Red circle with a triply Painting hung in the middle. On the opposite wall hangs a 4'x4' self portrait he painted,hung in a 5'dia Red circle, flanking the side by a Large photos in copper frames, One of them is a shot of Him and I passed out in a love seat leaned up against each other, both with many embarrassing items drawn all over our faces in magic-marker, and out mom sitting on the arm of love seat, with a marker in hand, and laughing her ass off. The other picture is one of him and I in a strip-club on Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras, for his 21st Birthday. We looked like we had a real good time, that night.
It looks really rice. I doesn't come off as creepy shrine or anything. His art is cool on it's own. The black/copper and red all works. It's quite beautiful. I had some reservations while I putting it together, that it would bother me, but it doesn't. It feels like he would liked it. Other than the stuff on top of his amp, nothing looks abnormal. There are 3 framed pictures-on his amp, One of him and Mom, One of Him and Stacy, his Fiance, and one of him and guitarist David Gilmour from Pink Floyd, sitting in 2 chairs playing Acoustic Guitars together. This picture might have meant more to him than his amp, now that I think about. Gilmour was his idol. I took that picture of them jamming together.
For your dads cymbals, don't drill a hole in it an deface worse. And don't break any more. Find a way to display them creatively, and include a couple of shots of your dad, If he loved the instrument, do your best to preserve them, and take an opportunity to bring him back in touch with them and you, by integrating it somehow, find a way to make it all aesthetically pleasing, and you'll be proud to have it on display. Try not' break another one. Cymbals break. Especially old ones.
Oh yea... There are 2 more items on top of his amp, that sometimes I get questioned about. There is a big, unopened can of Arizona Green Tea, because he ALMOST ALWAYS had one with him.... And, there is a small silver bowl filled the rim with Red Dunlop Guitar picks, because he ALMOST NEVER had one of those on him.
Sorry about your Dad's cymbal..