The SS/SSX series was a good series for us. I hated to see these go. We would love to bring this series back but we would have to get some major funding from some where.
The original SS alloy stood for Saluda Silver, since it was a nickel silver alloy. Then the X stood for Xotica. In my opinion the SS's were better than the SSX series since the SS's were better balanced with the lathing, hammering, sanding and polishing. This is also the same style that most of the Mist X's see today. This kind of proves how we like to tie learning in with past models with current models.
The SS alloy was a top notch nickel silver alloy but we knew that we could do 10 times better. The SS Xotica was going to be the series that was 10 times better than the already good SS series. However, only around 1 in 100 cymbals turned into a proper SS Xotica - all others were labeled as SSX. The SS Xotica was never a series; it was a prototype series that obviously never saw regular production since we couldn't make them too well. I pretty much kept most of these for my personal kit for years until I sold them off on ebay. I don't even know if I mentioned what they were when I sold them.
Anyway, our cymbal crafting was pretty stone age at that time so it was really hard for us to understand why one turned out beautiful and the next was not as good. The whole process was a huge learning tool for us. Today this lathing is mainly seen on the Definitive Jazz series but we mix it up and do it on just about any series to achieve a certain sound.
Jamie
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