The above are examples of our XG series released in 2000. This began as a nightmarish cymbal series as the cymbals came out too thin to be used for their primary purpose. This ended up being  a short lived series. The purpose was to release a nonhammered series, along with our hammered GH series. The resources were too slim at that time so we discontinued the XG series to put more emphasis in our GH series.

The GH3 series cymbals were easy to spot since they had black, pad-pressed logos on opposite sides of each other. The GH3 alloy has a number of improvements as we learned more about detailed lathing and hammering.

The GH4 series and the SH1 series were the same type cymbal/alloy. There are no differences except the SH1 were released in a different batch in 2001. Engravings under the bell distinguished between the two models. All GH4/SH1 models had a mixture of  black pad-pressed logos with blue ink stamps nearer the bell. This was also the first time we started using weight and type indicators on our cymbals. The SH1 series also had the first stamped image for series classification.