Ceramic vs. Zirconium Belts

I am anxious to see how the VSM belts work out. I will try the Best Value next since the cost is so similar.
I just started using some Cubitron 2 belts for starting my post HT routine and I am liking them. The one thing I am not liking is that of the 3 I have used so far each one has had a very large blob of the grit and glue somewhere in the middle. I have had to remove this spot because it almost throws the knife out of my hand. Not real keen on that QC issue.
 
Try the gators post HT. they last and they seem to run a bit cooler. I leave a belt finish on most of my knives and they leave a nice scratch pattern
 
The VSM's are great, like many have said and I find they cut really well and if you dress them hard when they flag by bumping them with a piece of steel hard the grain fractures well and you can get quite a bit of life out of them. The Gators are great. I've used them for years, but for some reason my last couple of batches of them have been loading a lot more than I'm used to and also crumbling instead of wearing evenly. They still last a long time and if you use a wire brush on them periodically you can use them almost all the way to flat, at which point they're about like a J-flex and can be WD40'd and used for handles. There are few belts that can give you so much life for the $.

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It's true that the 3M 977 belts seem to "revive" it turned end for end when the one direction seemed to be loosing it's cutting power. Frank
 
Interesting. So THAT is why they have the two way arrow printed on the back? I will have to try that because I just got some recently and they did not impress me as being any better or maybe not even as good as a similar grit Blaze. The ground a long time, but they kind of settled into to mediocre and stayed that way for ages.
flatblackcapo said:
I recently tried the 3M Cubitron 2 belts,they are not cheap but boy do the cut! When the loose their bite you can flip them around and get more out of them. I still have to see if the cost evens out or not.
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