It was at about that time that a bei guan musician took a broken gong to Lin and asked him to weld it back together. The job piqued Lin's curiosity, so he went to a theater troupe that was disbanding and bought a couple of small gongs made in China. After studying the gongs, he started to experiment with making his own.
由於曾經有當地的北管師傅拿過破鑼來請林午焊接，於是林午在戲班拋售的行頭裡買了兩面大陸製作的小鐵鑼加以研究，開始嘗試製鑼。