18" Amir? Is this worth anything? appears to be hand hammered, and in good shape.
Amir Zildjian?
"I enjoy restoring 60s Japanese "stencil" drums...I can actually afford them..."I rescue the worst of the old valueless drums for disadvantaged Children and gladly accept donations of parts, pieces and orphans, No cockroaches, please...
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jonnistix, just google Amir Zildjian, and go to cymbalholics.com thread.
Alot of info on these cymbals.
PS: your attachment no workie
this one appears to be much older than that 80s stuff. and hand-hammered as well.
"I enjoy restoring 60s Japanese "stencil" drums...I can actually afford them..."I rescue the worst of the old valueless drums for disadvantaged Children and gladly accept donations of parts, pieces and orphans, No cockroaches, please...
http://www.youtube.com/user/karstenboy
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Coffee...16613138379603
Rats...80s. Oh well, does anyone know how these sound? This one is an 18" .
"I enjoy restoring 60s Japanese "stencil" drums...I can actually afford them..."I rescue the worst of the old valueless drums for disadvantaged Children and gladly accept donations of parts, pieces and orphans, No cockroaches, please...
http://www.youtube.com/user/karstenboy
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Coffee...16613138379603
[COLOR="DarkRed"]Machine-made B8's out of stamped sheets - late 70's early 80's - but actually -they were probably the BEST B8's Zildjan ever produced !! Just stay away from the Amir II's - because those are pretty sucky. But the older Amirs are very decent ! 16" - worth $60-65 & the 18" - about $70-80[/COLOR]
I've got 18" and 20" Amir China Boy cymbals that I like a lot.
[COLOR="DarkRed"]Yeah...ain't it funny how companies discontinue lines which are far better than the lines they are replaced with ?
Seriously.....to this day Zildjian has never produced a decent B8 line which could touch the original Amirs. BTW...these are generally medium-weight cymbals...good for rock or multi-purpose.....
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I had one of the early 80's Amirs 18' crash and it was a decent cymbal,as I remember mine was lathed on top and unlathed on the bottom side
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