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This thread reminds me, I’ve been meaning to take apart one of my Rockbros bells, remove the lacquer, and hand-hammer it with my ball peen hammer.
whoa I may have to give that a try, eager to hear how yours comes out
I will do some A/B recording for it.
[quote=Face]A friend says his spur cycle bell sounds like angels singing. I’m still happy with my $5 summit bell that same friend gave me. Before that, I was happy with the free take-offs from cheap hybrids.
I’ll hold off on an artisanal bell until Paul Components makes a purple splash ano one.[/quote]
I like it because it’s artisanal + so fucking clear and piercing it makes people just jump out of the way when they hear it.
… If they don’t have ear buds in.
My Spurcycle bell does appear to cut through earbuds most of the time. I like to think that’s what my extra 50 bucks bought me.
Sounds magical.
I stripped the paint off mine and it sounds much better. But that doesn’t help that the spring got impotent quick.
I have no impotent springs.
I ordered a tiny ball-peen hammer from China for $3 yesterday. I wanted it for some cymbal projects I have in mind, but it should also be useful hammering my bell.
[quote=Wintage Townie]I have no impotent springs.
I ordered a tiny ball-peen hammer from China for $3 yesterday. I wanted it for some cymbal projects I have in mind, but it should also be useful hammering my bell.[/quote]
What will this result in?
Is there a method you could link to (or explain)? Sounds like interesting stuff.
I’m curious as well
Tomii has been doing hammered VO bells (why he doesn’t do the real Crane bells I have no idea)
Oh shit, that’s rad! Of course Tomii is doing that. Of course.
Here’s a good primer on hammering, but that article is talking about cymbals with a malleable B20 bronze/tin alloy, not whatever brass/tin collabo ended up in my Rockbros. I don’t exactly know what it will do to this bell, but hammering is done to basically all traditional cymbals, and the effect is to create a louder and more complicated sound. If you want to dig really deep (and why would you?), Lance Campeau has made a YouTube channel all about hammering and reworking brass and bronze cymbals.
Here’s an interesting video showing what can happen when you hammer out a steel-shelled snare drum (it goes from a boring, ringy B, to a complex and nuanced Ab).
Ummm, you do know you’re on Tarck, right? Have you seen the axe thread? 
Buddy just got the new knog bell. He’s a weight weenie, so those 15g of difference were important to him.
I’ma big fan of the aesthetics of the knog thing.
[quote=Patch]
Buddy just got the new knog bell. He’s a weight weenie, so those 15g of difference were important to him.
The Knog bell looks good and has nice ergonomics, but damn, it’s downright quiet compared to Spurcycle.
I’ma big fan of the aesthetics of the knog thing.[/quote]
[quote=Wintage Townie]
Here’s a good primer on hammering, but that article is talking about cymbals with a malleable B20 bronze/tin alloy, not whatever brass/tin collabo ended up in my Rockbros. I don’t exactly know what it will do to this bell, but hammering is done to basically all traditional cymbals, and the effect is to create a louder and more complicated sound. If you want to dig really deep (and why would you?), Lance Campeau has made a YouTube channel all about hammering and reworking brass and bronze cymbals.[/quote]
Following that rabbit hole, add to extensive list of places I will spend money because tarck:
none of those hammers are any good. heath says you have to get the japanese hammers in 10g, 25g, 72g, 191g, and 430g before you can even consider properly hammering your knockoff bicycle bell. you COULD get the german ones but those are quite pedestrian.
And he totally knew this and didn’t Google it first at all.