Home-Made Cymbals?

[HeaveyDrummer]

Can you tell me if this is a good idea, because
my family knows their way around a toolbox
so they could make me one in a second, I would
just need to know if theyre are any guides or anything
that you know of that I could print off...

Thanks,
Evan

EDIT: I'm sorry I posted this in wrong section, I guess I should have posted in cymbal section.. whoops.

 

[drummert2k]

making something thats looks like a cymbal would be easy. but mixing the right metals and getting the right thicknesses and densities and how you hammer or lathe it to make it sound like a cymbal would be very very hard to do

 

[scrubs]

Here's a video about cymbal making: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S33wffNGBTk

 

[scrubs]

An interesting article: http://www.cymbalholic.com/articles/ski ... ethods.php

And a few more: http://www.cymbalholic.com/articles/

 

[zerodogma]

That was a very cool video, Scrubs. It's fun to see the behind-the-scene stuff.

 

[osiris90210]

well i sorta made one of my cymbols, it was a crappy one which i cut down to a 15" and fixed up abit, and now it is the envy to many drummers i no

altho that was a cymbol when i started, dunno how good of an idea itd b to make one from scratch