Cymbal Logo Restoration: Zildjian 22" K Custom Ride Brilliant (Really Works!) 

Hey man, just wanted to let you know that I finally got around to restoring my cymbals. Took fkn ages for my sister to become a really good graphic artist because she's a nurse but after a few calls a week for a few years she got the hint and I got the result! Very happy with this method but it does take commitment.

Ur sister should work for zildijan or u should make a company on restoring the logos and ask for a price and get paid and be rich

That's awesome! I sharpie my K logos when I see them starting to wear. Cudos!

Beautiful job 👏 love your drum room with that SWEET Sabres Jersey framed on the wall!

Came out awesome! Nice job, both of you.

Looks asome.straight out of the factory.I just got a zildjian master sound hi hats used for &159.bucks at guitar center. All I had to do was clean them up. I love them 14”

i did something similar with a regular sharpie and some wrights copper cream to my 21" mega bell. didn't turn out as nice, but i'm no graphic designer. great work!

I have the same cymbal, actually one of the early ones. I was wincing when you were using the power drill buffer...thank god my logos are fine.

Showroom quality !! Excellent job!!

Oh yea... subscribed, your other videos are great. You're a good drummer, and that ride in your other videos, sounds amazing!!!! 👍👍

Beautiful work!!! So inspiring! 😍

I got the same cymbal but a 21. I have not cleaned it because of not losing the logos. I really am impressed and gave me some ideas to work around the paint. You sister created a template for the letters in a sketch. I think you guys are into something if you leave the template on and use the ink from the sharpie. as opposed to paint freehand. Either way, great job restoring the cymbal.

Thank you for the sound demo!!

I have the exact same ride now I know who to take it too lol, great job

I play only Zildjian cymbals. Before I totally lost the decals I colored them in with sharpie markers. Worked out great.

Looks amazing

Really, really good stuff! Awesome project that other drummers will love. Hope Zildjian picks this up.

i agree with your opinion first and fore most. If you are trying to work on the cymbal in this fashion; by all means apply as you see fit. however, you can extremely discolor or mark up a cymbal applying cleaner directly to the brass. i just thought id drop my 2 cents in case anyone has considered and didn't know of the repercussions. great job restoring! just looking out for unintended results.

Wow! That turned out really nice! Nice to have such an artistic talented sister to help with the project. I hope your enjoying the ride, nothing like that nice ping and stick definition from a 22" cymbal. I really miss my Niel Peart Sabian Paragon ride. Thanks for sharing your project!

Nice! The Alaskan "Guppy" (737) on your computer screen reminded me that we sometimes use what we call a Super sharpie for part marking at Boeing. Good enough for aircraft parts, it should last on a cymbal.

beautiful!

I have a 22" K Custom Ride as well. I bought mine back in 2006 because Dom Howard of Muse played one. I absolutely fell in love with how it sounded on Hullabaloo live. It cuts through the mix in a very musical way - it's not overly aggressive. It's just there, balanced, warm and bright all at once.

Make Cymbal Great Again! :-D great job man!

Very impressive 🙏

Everyone loves their K cymbal..

i use to use permanent sharpe markers on the faded logos and it worked just fine and it looked new

looks great, like it's in the music store back in the 90s.

Congrats to your sister

That's pretty cool!

I highly recommend Wright's Copper Cream. Take a first pass with the copper cream. You literally don't need to do anything other than apply it pretty evenly, let it sit for a few minutes and wipe clean. Then rinse it with warm water and dry with a clean cloth. No elbow grease required. THEN take the buffer kit to the cymbal. Waaaaaay less work and better/cleaner finish

Thats awesome david.

Nice job !

Buen trabajo amigo!!!! Saludos desde México!

Looks good man

Real nice! You must be a drummer! :)

beautiful

This is awesome, if I get a new Sabian cymbal I’ll polish the ugly logo off and put on the old logo! :)

Nice job...

So the original brilliant shine from Zildjian is actually a clear coat... so if you use power tools (speaking from experience, I use bench buffers) you will blast through that clear coat... your cymbals will get shiny again but they will go back to dirt quickly. You want to preserve that coating as much as possible.

I have a traditional finish 22” K ride, all of my other cymbals are Sabian. I tried for quite awhile to find a ride that sounded good to me, and eventually fell in love with the K. It works great for every genre of music, and I think the bell sounds amazing!

I left my ride outside in the garden for 3 mouth , sounds great

Awesome job. What sort of scares me about how perfect the logo looks is that this sort of thing could be dangerous with people looking to falsely brand cheaper cymbals with high-end logos. I've personally never heard of anyone selling "counterfeit" cymbals before, but I'm sure its been done before.

You've made an excellent job in restoring the beautiful cymbal! I have a K Custom 20” Medium Ride and it's an amazing cymbal

Looks Good

I still have my 22” K Custom Ride I love it. Great video.

You would think in this day and age that the cymbal companies could come up with a very durable logo system...like anodized coating logos... ink is so 200 years ago

GREAT job to both of you. Beautiful ride! I have the 20"

Non-scientific experiment with Zildjian Cymbal Cleaner by a drummer: I hope to post this on multiple locations that show the Zildjian Cymbal cleaner. I'll premise this by saying that I've been using Bar keepers friend for a number of years successfully, among other cymbal cleaners over the years. The Zildjian about 15-16 bucks per 8 oz. bottle, I find these cleaners are a great money maker for cymbal companies. Bottom line, I'm a drummer who hopes to spread the word to other drummers to hopefully help them save a buck. I recently bought a new Zildjian brilliant cymbal and wanted to test this cleaner. It comes in a white liquid that one spreads evenly, by sparingly, per the directions, onto both sides of the cymbal. Then it is wiped off with a soft cloth. My first impression was that it is very messy and the black oxidation that comes off (even on a cleaner cymbal like my newest one) is excessive, so one needs plenty of soft clothes. This newest Zildjian cymbal still had a sheen to it, but there were stick marks that the cleaner did not get off. You're going to need a A LOT of elbow grease to get all the polish off. At this stage of my life, I've used up most of my elbow grease. Drummers need to keep in mind that cymbals, like Zildjian, come from the factory with a factory-applied chemical sheen/coat that eventually wears off through cleaning. This is find and purely natural. Bar keepers helper is a world easier. Some people point of that is has an acid in it, but it's a WEAK acid, that won't harm the cymbal. Also, BKF doesn't irritate your hands/fingers, and if it doesn't hurt your skin, it's sure not going to damage/hurt your cymbal. With BKF, wet the cymbal, use the powder of liquid version and a small sponge. Let it sit for a few second, then rise off. Volla! It's comes out with a nice shine, without the endless elbow grease. You may opt for the liquid version of BKF to avoid micro abrasions with the powder, but those are minimal and not noticed by the naked eye. I also like the powder version sometimes so that I can scrub with a soft sponge to get the stick marks off the cymbal. I hope this helps. BMM

Beautiful cymbals, I love the K’s. They are a serious and expensive investment, way to keep them beautiful! I always keep my kit looking new, and $3000 worth of cymbals too!

Parabéns. Ficou lindo. Perfeito.

Good job on the symbol

Fantastic! And what king of marker do you use to repair the logo's? I may have missed that.

Hi, I fricken love you for this

Everything thing you said about cymbals I 100% agree with lol. Personally, I prefer the Special Dry series but I also love Zildjian’s traditional and brilliant finishes. I now own a 23” Special Dry ride and I think I prefer 23”s over 22”s.

Wowzers!!!!☝️☝️☝️👏👏👏

Good Job

Only thing I'd say is you've probably done a better job than Zildjian, especially the K logo, looks sharper than the factory job to me. Lovely job by the way.

I have that exact cymbal. Don’t think it was that shiny from the factory but it looks great

Make a stencil with a “cricut” (vinyl plotter) and mask the area and spray it .... go to a drum show and you will find people will pay you for what costs you pennies

I notice that despite extensive polishing you still didn't get ALL the old logo off. Looks awesome though. I have some really old 60's Zildjian cymbals which have all the logos engraved, so polishing is a breeze!

Super cool. I too play a Zildjan 22” ride. You’re exactly right. No other ride can compare.

You should be able to get replacement logos from Zildjian. I think I still have a couple around somewhere.

I like my Traditional finish 22” K ride. I just use almond or lemon oil to clean it. Brilliant finishes are nice, but they get dirty so quickly and noticeably.

For SABIAN owners, I believe they still offer the cleaning and restamping of the ink logos. For not too bad of a price including shipping. Why not have a cymbal looking like it was new again by the company that made it. I don't know if Zildjian offers the similar service.

Polishing you need highRPM’s and need to create heat to get high luster good job guy!

Would you recommend the same method for a HHX brilliant cymbal? I have the sabian clean/polish cymbal cleaner, so I just need this buffering kit.

You should open up a business doing this!!! Have a price for cleaning and for cleaning amd RE-Logo installation!!! This would be a market you could really bring to life I believe!!! Uhhhh mazin job!!

Who’s version of ‘blackbird’ the musicality is phenomenal. I must have it, if that’s you on drums then😳😅 superb

Brother you complicated the process way too much you could do this with tampography (as Zildjian does) I work with screen printing and its easy

I had a 22" pre serial K Custom. It was the "Ride", but it was only stamped "Custom". It was glassy and elegant. I sort of wish I hadn't sold it. Very hard to find because nobody wants to sell them. Mine was from the pre rotary hammering process. It was from when they were still hammered by hand. The logos were factory perfect, and it was absolutely gorgeous.

Was that a Posca Pen paint marker? I use those instead of sharpies because clear coat won’t melt it

You could also set up a silk screen. That's how they do it at the factory

If you like that ride, you’ve gotta try the Monster A Zildjian 22” Earth Ride “Brilliant”!

I was told long ago to NEVER use a power tool across the grain (grooves). Always move in the direction of the grooves.

I am pretty sure when u played it you did a mess on your heads because of sharpie's ink ! it may look good and your sis did a great job hand lettering it like a comment below says, use tampography so u don't get all ur kit and other cymbals dirty.

Amazing job! The cymbal looks gorgeous again 👌🏼

Exactly what type of sharpie did yall use? Thanks 😊

Great work. Cymbal looks gorgeous 👍

It work N i like it....

nice! what version of blackbird is this?

Normally people want the patina, it makes cymbals sound better than bright shiny cymbals. I regretted making mine shiny again and wished I never did it.

What paint do you use to rewrite the logo on the cymbal?

Wich marker do you use? It's hard to find the perfect one......

I have this exact cymbal in a 20" I've always wanted a 22" but never found one. I don't think Zildjian makes them anymore :(

Love it man! /. / I did same thing 20 years ago and my friends thought that I was absolutely nuts.

Wow dude! Impressive! Rock on! 🥁😎DC

great an cool, I should make logos, but no body in my country, work this form.

Hey man was this a gift from a friend lol I sold mine around that time

Hey! Now I can make counterfeit Zildjian K’s! Thanks

only zildjian lovers will understand this... the problem with the sharpie is when you eventualy hit that logo color stays on drumstick and then drumstick stains the drumheads...

If you anchor your drill then attach your cymbal to it like a record player it's way easier to clean them.

LMAO....year 2006, I just bought a set of Paiste Giant Beats cymbals. The very first thing I did was grab the lacquer thinner and removed all the logos. Back in the days, 50's and 60's cymbals either just had an engraved stamp, or a very small logo. Growing up in the late 70's and 80's I noticed this, so it was just natural to remove the logos. What cymbals are they playing?. Nowadays, like everything else, it's all about the logo.

Ya know they use to apply thin coat of polyurethane after polishing to avoid rusting..

10:23 ..It would have been funny if you started writing "Alaska" while looking at templates.. (I mean, not really, but this reminded me of Me when I get so engrossed in something I just go Autopilot and suddenly I've etched some Cuneiform Text on the side of a space shuttle. Erm, ..because I Totally paint for Nasa.. ...probably... :) ((This was amazing! Cool to see siblings working together. Major points on the Made my day scale. I have all A Customs, my hats were barren, so I ended up basically going Sharpie and just doing the fancy 'A'.. Makes it so pleasing somehow. Such a classy logo. GREAT work with Both the K , the Print, And the Backside.!! Kudos guys! Blown away! ..whhhoooossshhh . . .

Very cool video! Looks like a brand new cymbal!

A lot of the "black" that was coming off was tiny amounts of metal and not dirt.

Would be awesome if someone started selling die-cut negative stickers that you could use as a stencil but I am not sure about the licensing since it will have to be the word and logo. On the other hand, you would think Zildjian and Sabian would like for their cymbals to have their logos prominently displayed.

cool

What did you use for Laquer afterwards?

Hard work often pays of. Nice one 👌