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Lathing your own cymbals:
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:16 pm
by dontfeartheringo
Lathing your own cymbals:
Thread on building a lathe:
https://www.drumforum.org/threads/how-t ... he.185464/
Apparently a lot of guys find old brake rotor lathes and use those.
Detailed instructions from Mike Skiba:
https://www.drumforum.org/attachments/m ... pdf.499911
Re: Lathing your own cymbals:
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:24 pm
by dontfeartheringo
Craig Lauritsen is kind of a famous cymbalsmith and he's being pretty open about his materials and techniques:
https://www.cymbalutopia.com/www.cymbal ... thing.html
Re: Lathing your own cymbals:
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:27 pm
by dontfeartheringo
Re: Lathing your own cymbals:
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:54 pm
by penningtron
How about the hammering part, or is that just something intuitive you dive into?
Re: Lathing your own cymbals:
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:59 pm
by Garth
penningtron wrote:
How about the hammering part, or is that just something intuitive you dive into?
A friend up north is real into this and there's so many factors to take in. Thickness, shape, bell size (and shape), material, etc etc.
Seems like it's a slow path to pure madness.
Re: Lathing your own cymbals:
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:02 pm
by penningtron
Garth wrote: Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:59 pm penningtron wrote:
How about the hammering part, or is that just something intuitive you dive into?
A friend up north is real into this and there's so many factors to take in. Thickness, shape, bell size (and shape), material, etc etc.
Seems like it's a slow path to pure madness.
Yeah. I'll probably never do it. However if one of youse gets good at it and starts producing stuff at Chris Jury prices I'll be very interested!
Re: Lathing your own cymbals:
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:07 pm
by dontfeartheringo
penningtron wrote: Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:54 pm
How about the hammering part, or is that just something intuitive you dive into?
This is great stuff! I didn't even know about the whole refurbished/modded cymbal community until the last year or two.
Lauritsen has some really detailed descriptions of the tools and techniques here:
https://www.cymbalutopia.com/www.cymbal ... g_101.html
Re: Lathing your own cymbals:
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:21 pm
by TylerDeadPine
I thought you weren't supposed to encourage drummers
Re: Lathing your own cymbals:
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:05 pm
by jimmy spako
This seems like a good channel for some of the basics of how cymbals work and how to approach modding, he presents things well:
https://www.youtube.com/@ReverieDrumCo
VIDEO
Re: Lathing your own cymbals:
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:07 pm
by jimmy spako
These links are all brilliant, thanks.