rhinoknives
Well-Known Member
Hello Dog's & Dogette's
I recently was given some test belts from Scott at www.trugrit.com Ontario.
The Brand is VSM from Germany and these are at the price point or lower than the Norton Ceramic Best Value belts I wrote about awhile back.
I ordered 30 of these belts of 10 each in 36G 60G & 120G The Rep " Ralph" happened to be at Trugrit when my order was filled and he offered to deliver my order. We talked a bit and he said VSM wants into the knife maker market and are glad to listen to what we want. That was refreshing to hear!
Also he will have other products for me to check out in the near future.
The 36Grit works great and I get just short of three of my big 8 1/2" x 3" x 14 1/2" OAL Chef blades done per belt. At under $5.00 each this is a very good bargain for a Ceramic.
The 60 Grit do there job as well, Can't remember the quote? Then the 120 Grit which are under $3.00 work great. At the price point of under $3.00 I don't care if I only get the finish work on the bevels of one of my big knives per belt!
The cleanest cutting part of the life of any belt is in the first half of the grit.
That's all I have asked out of the 120's then I use them for cleaning up the flats on my full tangs after HT..
Another aspect that I like about these VSM Ceramic belts is that they have no dyed back or other Crud that can end up on the flat platen and give chatter marks.
I am experimenting using a grinding fluid that I spray on to the belts from Angler Industries named AccuCool 1975 with great early results.
With the Norton Best Value belts the red dye in the ceramic grit was coming out and staining my hands and flying on me etc and the blue dye in the backing was getting messy. I am real happy that these VSM belts don't have that problem with the dyes running. I will do a review of sorts of the AccuCool 1975 soon if anyone is interested?
I really think you guys will also like these belts and at this price point they are a excellent deal.
Bossdog you may want to look into carrying these belts?
A abrasive company that want to listen to us sounds great to me!
Laurence
www.rhinoknives.com
I recently was given some test belts from Scott at www.trugrit.com Ontario.
The Brand is VSM from Germany and these are at the price point or lower than the Norton Ceramic Best Value belts I wrote about awhile back.
I ordered 30 of these belts of 10 each in 36G 60G & 120G The Rep " Ralph" happened to be at Trugrit when my order was filled and he offered to deliver my order. We talked a bit and he said VSM wants into the knife maker market and are glad to listen to what we want. That was refreshing to hear!
Also he will have other products for me to check out in the near future.
The 36Grit works great and I get just short of three of my big 8 1/2" x 3" x 14 1/2" OAL Chef blades done per belt. At under $5.00 each this is a very good bargain for a Ceramic.
The 60 Grit do there job as well, Can't remember the quote? Then the 120 Grit which are under $3.00 work great. At the price point of under $3.00 I don't care if I only get the finish work on the bevels of one of my big knives per belt!
The cleanest cutting part of the life of any belt is in the first half of the grit.
That's all I have asked out of the 120's then I use them for cleaning up the flats on my full tangs after HT..
Another aspect that I like about these VSM Ceramic belts is that they have no dyed back or other Crud that can end up on the flat platen and give chatter marks.
I am experimenting using a grinding fluid that I spray on to the belts from Angler Industries named AccuCool 1975 with great early results.
With the Norton Best Value belts the red dye in the ceramic grit was coming out and staining my hands and flying on me etc and the blue dye in the backing was getting messy. I am real happy that these VSM belts don't have that problem with the dyes running. I will do a review of sorts of the AccuCool 1975 soon if anyone is interested?
I really think you guys will also like these belts and at this price point they are a excellent deal.
Bossdog you may want to look into carrying these belts?
A abrasive company that want to listen to us sounds great to me!
Laurence
www.rhinoknives.com
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