Best grit for knuckles?

[Ferret]

I found used 60 grit gives a terrific combination of gouge and burn. Any others? :grumpy:

 

[Sylvester]

36 grit is the best for that kind of thing

 

[Greg Covington]

Yeah....36 grit goes straight for the bone.....gotta respect that!

 

[Ferret]

Extra points for burning grit into the gouge too

 

[Mark Williams]

Somebody calling me?

Mark

 

[RHINOKNIVES]

a fresh 36 grit makes instant hamburger at amazing speed but you do get extra brownie points for holding there long enought to burn. hope you really didnt hurt yourself to bad. i find that the grinding dust seems to inhidit(sp?) infection for some reason.

 

[Ferret]

Nah, not too bad...sort of self-cauterised

 

[Matt Shade]

8" bench grinder with a coarse wheel does wonders to your fingers, callouses are instantly torn off, flesh gouged away and a new callous burned on again. If I keep at it my fingers will be a half inch shorter

 

[peter nap]

36 is not too bad but I like 80 grit for that baby smooth look! 120 works very well for grease removal on my fingertips!

 

[Bill Siegle]

I find that a fresh 36 grit is best as a hand warmer when grinding during the colder months.Cold ,wet hands from dipping hot steel in 30 degree temps in the garage. When your hands start to feel warm you know you must have contacted the belt. A new space heater seems to help keep feeling in the hands better so less ground down knuckles and fingertips. The most problems for me occur when I try to rush kydex grinding. Very slippery stuff and loves to jump out from the belt under too much pressure. Almost guaranteed blood loss. No longer let myself get behind on kydex work so I don't have to try an rush it. Besides why ruh ? You just lose more time to bandages.Plus blood stains the 5160 I use.

 

[Epsilon]

aah yes, 36. I nice, new, sharp 36. I haven't tried 25, bet that's a gem too

 

[Kisu]

I find the best is 36 grit with those little slivers of aluminum stuck in them.

 

[RHINOKNIVES]

the norton 36g ceramic hoggers, flesh disapers with no grit loss, that way once you heal up you still have a fresh belt you can grind steel with

 

[hank_rearden]

this thread is better posted in either the institute for industrial safety or rotten.com

 

[BRTATCK]

I have got to go along with the others, a fresh 36 belt does wonders for those fingers and knuckles. For real fun a fresh 400 or 600 is good for fingers too, especially the edges of the belt. They cut like a scalpel and self cauterize, making for a prolonged healing time. Kind of like the mother of all paper cuts.

 

[J. Neilson]

It's also good for those of us who really hate nail clippers.Never even need them; nails just disapear.

 

[Kisu]

Rhino,

you mean those ceramic bubble belts when it starts to break down the bubbles, it leaves all these jagged edges?

 

[misque]

I found out this afternoon that a fresh 80 grit pad on the disk sander removes the left middle finger tip reeeaally fast. Even faster than one can pull away. I can only imagine what a 36 grit belt would do. Owwwww....

 

[RHINOKNIVES]

i was refering to a cermaic grinding belt. those bubble belts are for busting the slag off of dirty steel, which i will no longer buy. i image that one of those would do a decent job on flesh.

 

[blade runner]

After the initial flesh removal, do any of you guys go right on ahead and take it through the grits? You know: 120, then 220, then maybe 400, 600, then buffing wheel? If so, what compound would be best on the buffing wheel? ....rouge???