Hi,
I bought Paiste Stambul 65 ride a while back. It has a nice B8 patina, coming with some ugly green oxidation on the bottom - maybe I should do something with that. But never mind, that's not the problem.
One of previous owners obviously polished the cymbal, wich wouldn't be such a catastrophe for me, as I'm not really a purist, IF HE DIDN'T DO IT JUST ON ABOUT FIVE QUARTER INCHES. Now the cymbal is mostly dirty with a few clean spots, that seem to have been sprayed with beer or what the heck, because they're kinda dotted. As a whole, it looks weird and not really pretty.
So, what should I do? I don't want to wait another 40 years for the patina to grow back and I'm not too keen on polishing the whole cymbal either-I mean, I wouldn't mind if I got it already polished, but now I don't want to do that. Is there some way how to carefully restore the patina, probably with some kind of mild acid, without ruining the cymbal?
Oh and BTW: This cymbal is stamped Made in Germany. I saw another one stamped Made in Switzerland. I understand that these were in production for a very short time, in the quite early years of the company. Anyone knows whether Paiste already had factories in both countries or whether there is some difference between Stambuls from Germany or Switzerland?
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