I know a couple of other people on here have had the problem of working with the Zildjian Cymbal Polish, mainly the fact that once you put it on your going to spend several hours rubbing it out  . Anywho I pulled out my bottle yesterday because I decided that I didn't want to let my A's Patina, just my K's so I put a fat coat on my A Zildjian & Cie Vintage crash and had the same problem as always, took to long to scrub out and never really could get it all out. I then thought hmm I wonder what would happen if I put some on and left it on for an extended period of time, which is what I did, for about two hours. I came back and found the polish had turned green and extremely dry, I then found it was extremely easy to polish it off, it only took about 15 min per side. This method also seemed to have a far stronger effect on how it cleaned the cymbal, except for the deep stains it really made the cymbal look new, very rich color. I'm doing my 1970s A ride right now, I'm trying to figure out what would be the best way to get out the deep stains. Figured i'd post this out there for any of you people who had alot of trouble with it, i think the secret is to let it dry for 30-90 min till its almost dusty.

Paul. I've been doing a sinilar thing with the Zildjain   polish, new where can I get my hands on this Bar Keepers Friend. I've never heard of it before, but if it works that good I'll  anything a try. I have several 1974 Zildjians to work on. Most of all I have two 1940 splash cymbals to work. I've tried almost everything on them and can get the dark out at all. Maybe there too old and been left go too long.

I get BKF at the grocery store in the section with kitchen cleansers.  Just apply it to the cymbal with a very wet terrycloth and scrub till clean.  Rinse thoroughly and dry completely.

If your cymbal's very dirty it may take two or three treatments.

According to the instructions on the side of the bottle.......it states:  Do not apply to inked logos as it WILL remove them!

I have had a bottle for quite awhile-and am afraid to use it-especially on my pAisTe cyms.  It will remove logos-and the protective finish pAisTe (and others) puts on their cymbals.

I only use warm water and MILD detergent to remove stick marks.....and only on a very rare occaision.  I prefer a vintage cymbal to have the vintage look.  Im not talking about alot of patina, and sweat spray, etc.  just that nice "aged" look.......on any mfgs. cymbal.  But thats just me-