Ludlover. yes. take your hammer, and a vise with an anvil on it, place a towel on the anvil as not to scratch your cymbal, you want to use a small piece of hard wood like a round dowel. you can get it at any home improvement shop, you want to use this to strike the cymbal with as not to scratch the cymbal, place the dowel rod over the dent. tap the other end with your hammer tap it with the necessary force to take out the dent just be careful, it may not look factory but it will be better than the dent that was originally there, can you understand my babble, good luck. I've done this several times with very good results, also have just used a ball pen hammer with a towel over the cymbal as not to dent it, use the round edge part of the hammer,once again use only the necessary force to remove the dent, is this the one you just picked up??

I understand the directions and thank you. Yes it is the cymbal I just picked up and it ended up being a 1977. The only issues are the little dents. One strange thing is that the Paiste ink stamp that is on the the bottom of the cymbal is visible on the top of the cymbal. It is not black but almost like it was from the heat of the stamp. Have you ever seen this before?

so she's a 1977 cool!!!Can you take a pic of that stamp and post it never seen that before, it is just a ink stamp shouldn't have gone to the other side, are you sure it isn't the top logo faded??

I can post a pic of it Monday but it is so faint I'm not sure it will show. I don't think it is a faded stamp on top because it is a perfectly mirrored image of the logo on the bottom which makes it backwards on top. By the way I do like the cymbal a lot. The added weight (medium) gave the darker sound that I like in a cymbal. I don't think it is a good match to my Giant Beat crashes so until I can find The 20" Medium I will stick with my current setup.

man that's weird but all is possible in the world of vintage, yeah get that pic up,and so it doesn't match the GB's i need to listen to some of those, then i'll want some of them! I so love my 2002's and 602's

Sounds like the cymbal was stacked during manufacture, and some of the paint from a cymbal stacked on top of it made a mark. Could be it was part of someone’s set and they stacked it the same way all the time, and it got marked by the one above it. Who knows?

[COLOR="DarkRed"]Un-denting can work good'nuff for B8 & NS12 alloys...but B20's are far more brittle, and personally I have had zero success on B20's.....[/COLOR]

jaye i've had pretty good results with the method i suggested, it wasn't factory, but it was far better than the original dent that was there! you just have to be careful b20 is quiet mandible,at least paiste's is.

Paiste`s alloy s are all basically B8 or other combinations other than B20 except for the new Paiste 20s as far as I know