Gator belts vs. Ceramics

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jaymeister99

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Which do you recommend? I'm running these on a 2x42, so unfortunately no Blaze Ceramics!
 
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they are not interchangeable
hog with ceramics and then do all yoour clean up and finish with the gators
 
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Butch, I always wanted to do the plus one thing, this seemed like a fine opportunity.
 
Hogging is removing large amounts of material quickly, like when profiling a blade or beginning to set the bevels.
 
tho they cant get blaze you can get good cheap belts at supergrit.com (if you dont see it on there sight call and ask as they have jsut about every thing short of the big name stuff) in your belt size
 
Gators give a really good finish,much more even, and I swear it looks like at least 100 grit finer than a ceramic finish of the same grit. True grit has gators in your size, and supergrit has ceramics, it is kinda frustrating.
 
Cool, I'll stick to the ceramics for my "hogging"! I really like saying that.:thumbup:

Are the Supergrit belts as good as the ones at Trugrit?

I usually buy from Trugrit. The belts I got at Supergrit didn't seem to hold up as well. Is it me or do they burn up quicker?
 
jaymeister99 said:
I usually buy from Trugrit. The belts I got at Supergrit didn't seem to hold up as well. Is it me or do they burn up quicker?
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I haven't bought from Supergrit but the 400 Gators seem to last forever. I mean I have one that's downright black and nasty looking and it still works pretty darn well. I'm not recommending you use them that long but...
 
im not really a good one to ask abut belt life as i never get "full " use out of them cause when your grinding raxors or thin kitchen knives you cant press hard so when it looses a little bight i jsut set them off to the side (thats for blaze belts too)
 
i use the full line from 300 down to A45 depending on the finish (i will try the A30s at some point )

edit ooo after 80 or 120grit but i start with 50 grit not 36
 
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