Resin Diamond Smoothing Pads

Our diamond smoothing pads have a different color for each grit pad. It makes it easier to quickly find the grit pad you need. The colors correspond to these grits: 100 grit = Black 220 grit = Purple 325 grit = Maroon-Brown 600 grit = Cherry Red...

This is something that happens from time to time on smoothing pads. The base material for the smoothing pad is a synthetic felt. Once the phenolic resin is applied to that felt and allowed to cure, it slightly shrinks the base material. Felt materials...

The coloring is simply a dye that is added to the phenolic resin to differentiate the grit on the pad. It actually has no usefulness on the pad at all beyond that. If color is coming off your smoothing pad, the pad itself should still be fine. It just...

If your smoothing pad has begun to turn white (especially along the edges of the disk), then you are beginning to trap ground glass into the underlying mesh of the felt substrate. Over time, this ground glass can build up to a point where it is covering...

The easiest thing to do is to let the smoothing disk dry out completely, then use a spray adhesive to re-attach the magnet to the disk. Usually a magnet will start coming off only around the edges of a disk. Just spray the adhesive on both the magnet...

No. Our smoothing pads are actually a diamond disk that will grind your glass. Cerium is used for polishing your glass and is generally used with a carrier that has no grinding or polishing ability unto itself like the Synthetic Felt LP66 material ...

Absolutely! One of the best tools in our shop is an old smoothing pad. When you get a new smoothing pad, you're most likely still going to be using your existing electroplated disks. The new smoothing pad will be much more aggressive than you've probably...