Has any of us used this lady's belts ? ? ?

I tried em Roger and had no luck with em but I've read posts from other grinders that have used them and really liked em. I'm weird I guess, all I've ever had any success with is a/o belts. Even tried the high end stuff and it just doesn't produce for me like the a/o belts I buy from G. L. Pearce Abrasives.
 
I have tried them all. The high end belts an the low end ones
I like the belts I gete from Supergrit. Nortons $3.50 or you
can get Zirconia & Ceramic belts for 10% more. Right now my
belts are 50grt, 180 grt.cork, 400 grt cork & 600 grt cork
 
I purchase a whole mess of these belts from Barbara last year sometime. I got what I payed for. Service was good. Enough said.

I now order from SuperGrit. :rolleyes:

Dan
 
Thanks Dan and all.

Question answered. I'll go to Pop's and probably shouldn't have tryed to stray anyhow.

Roger
 
It's hard to ignore the "good deal" appeal when you see stuff like that on eBay. Sometimes not even my best buddies can talk me out of buying something totally ridiculous but dirt-cheap.

Dan
 
Cheap belts are cheap belts, they cut fine, and don't last. Sometimes you run into a bunch that track like crap, and then you have to just let em run awhile to stretch before they settle down.

For grinding blades from barstock I like the best belts I can get, usually either Blue Norzons or one of the 3M's in large grits, and Norax and 3M Micron belts for fine stuff. For hacking scale off a forged blade or rough grinding anything that is as much going to load up as ablate grit, I find the cheapos from Barb Snyder (barbkat on e-bay), Industrial Abrasives, or Supergrit are just fine.

Barb is excellent to deal with, a very nice lady.
 
Originally posted by Sylvester
I have tried them all. The high end belts an the low end ones
I like the belts I gete from Supergrit. Nortons $3.50 or you
can get Zirconia & Ceramic belts for 10% more. Right now my
belts are 50grt, 180 grt.cork, 400 grt cork & 600 grt cork
Click to expand...

Sylvester, how do you like those cork belts? What kind of lifetime do you get out of them?

:)

-Darren
 
Well so far soo good but ask me later. The 180 & 400 I`ve only
had for about a month the 600 grt is 2 yrs old an covered with green
rouge. The only thing is you need to take the belts of when your done
or they`ll stretch, well it seems like it anyway. Got them from
Supergrit for $6.00 each
 
Indian G.,

You remind me, Rob told be I might be better off with the J-Flex on the edge grinder. In addition, maybe I should try J-Flex on my plunge cuts. My 2 X 72 80 grits (my coursest) are rather stiff.

Roger
 
She's a great lady to deal with. However you're better off buying the name brands from Trugrit, Pops, Supergrit or others.

I guess I could have said "what they said"

Steve
 
Hi this is DaQo'tah

Im new to this knife making sport,,,so take this with a grain of salt.

Because I read on Blade Forum good reports about it, I went out and bought a Norton Hogger, (I think it was 60 grit?), it was good, but I made a mistake, and ruined it*,,,I about died!...

next I saw in my Bearing to Blade Video that from time to time in knife making it pays to use a fresh new 36 grit belt. Well so I logged on to Ebay and bid low (read, "dirt cheap") on ten 36 grit belts. And low and behold , I got them!

They are good enough for my skills as I learn with them,,,they are so cheap that I didnt even cry when once again I mistreated a brand new belt.

I would say one thing on behalf of her belts,,,they dont bump.

All the other belts I have got from different places seem to bump when the splice spins under your blade. But for some reason, this ladies' belts dont seem to have this type of constant distraction.

so,,,I do recommend her belts , expecially for us new guys who tend to mistreat our first few belts learning how handle, use, and store them.



*(I hung it carefully on top of my now guardless drill press drive pully, and then later turned on the drill press , snagging the Hogger into a tightly-wadded ball)
 
DaQo,

You're priceless. I know, my belts bump too when they hit my raised platen (raised because of pyrocerom plate).

Well, maybe it wouldn't hurt to get a ten-pack of 80 or 100 grit belts from the fair lady.

Thanks; rl
 
They work alright for me too.

Just a suggestion though, I'm sure everyone else here already realizess this, but while sharpening a blade edge up can work alright if yo'ure careful, sharpening a partially serrated blade edge up on your grinder and hitting edge of belt into serration does NOT work well.

luckily I was using a somewhat worn belt to keep from taking off too much metal, so I didn't feel bad. :)
 
etp,

You're way ahead of me there. I'm just now beginning to belt sharpen. I can't even imagine doing serations yet on a belt, or otherwise. Don't confuse me too much yet. I'm still just getting started. :(

rl
 
Ha, I have no idea how to belt sharpen serrations. I didn't mean to go that far. ;)

Ended up doing flats with belt and serrations with sharpmaker. That's one of two or three knives only that I've done belt sharpening. Did three cheap Cold Steel Machete's too, but that didn't need a shaving edge or anything.
 
etp,

Okay. Yes. I went back and re-read. I guess you're saying sharpen to the part of blade that is serated. Sorry bout that. Just how the hell does a man sharpen serations anyhow?? Never mind.;)

rl
 
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