Hand pads or handipads? Electroplated diamond or resin diamond? It can be daunting to figure out which pads are the best choice for your particular process. Let's break down the options so you'll better understand how they work. 

Electroplated diamonds will be the most aggressive style handpad you can use. They range in grit from rough at 60 grit to fine at 1800 grit. Don't be fooled, though. Even at 1800 grit, the surface an electroplated diamond will leave on your glass is still too rough to polish (although you can fire polish from this grit).

Electroplated diamond hand pads are best used to remove material from a larger surface. The thicker foam pad allows for a firm grip on the pad for making longer strokes of lengthy material or wider arcs on larger surface areas.

The electroplated diamond hand strips are not different from the electroplated diamond hand pads listed above. They still offer the removal of material from surfaces quickly and efficiently. Still, they are meant to be mounted onto a foam hand block, allowing for much more force and pressure on the glass surface for faster removal.

While they are meant to be used with a foam hand block, these are velcro-backed and somewhat flexible, so they can be used to wrap around holders to get into difficult-to-reach around other to areas if necessary.

If you need to work smaller areas, or curves, then the diamond hand pads and blocks are going to be too firm to work with. 

Enter the Diamond Handipad. Our smaller 2-1/2 inch x 2-1/2 inch diamond pads on a thinner foam backing. The electroplated diamond handipads work the same as the above hand pads with quick removal and finishing work on the glass surface, but still too aggressive to be polished from, even at the lower 800-grit pad.

The Resin Diamond Hand Blocks are made to move your rough ground glass surfaces to a pre-polish finish. Used after the electroplated diamonds to give a finer surface on the glass, these pads will not do any heavy removal on their own, even at rougher grits like 100-grit. 

They can be used on their own for light surface work and blemish removal, but are mostly used in conjunction with the electroplated diamonds to move from a rough surface to a pre-polish finish.

For smaller surface areas or areas that need more controlled grinding, we also have our resin diamond material in the smaller 2-1/2 inch x 2-1/2 inch Handipad format with a flexible foam backing.

Made to easily grind curves or smaller areas, these resin-based diamond pads are the perfect complement to the electroplated diamond hand pads listed above.