Availability of Festool Granat Sandpaper

JCLP

JCLP

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Good morning Foggers,
I have become quite fond of Festool's perforated Foam-backed hand sanding sheets but the only problem is that no Festool dealer in the Greater Toronto area carries stock. These are special order products and take 2-3 weeks to get them in. As I have a hard time planning that far ahead, I find myself looking for an alternate choice from other manufacturers such as Norton, Mirka and Klingsbor which are readily available.
Would anyone have experience with these alternate choices.
Thanks,
JC

 
I have a roll of foam backed Mirka 400.
Great stuff. Use it all the time for finishing.
Tim
 
Tim, is that the Mirka Goldflex soft sanding pad from Richelieu?

 
I find the availability of certain products in Canada is really starting to suck, seems like Festool is adding more dealers that stock less, go figure. As an alternative McFaddens stock Wurth paper in the same box and tearoff roll for the same money and actually have stock. You guys in Festool marketing should really understand that a lot of us are getting pissed about the lack of, in Canada. Small rant. I fugure if you take business away somebody might notice. I am delusional though.

John
 
Try the Norton ProSand MULTI-AIR. I used the previous version with big holes and didn't like the holes so this looks like it might be ideal based on my experience.

The abrasive is very durable and the backing is very soft and flexible. Despite the (previous) big holes I found it very good for hand sanding.

The "Non-pigmented, water-based Zinc Stearate coating" is very effective at resisting clogging when sanding finishes, more so than any other abrasive I have used.
 
JCLP said:
Tim, is that the Mirka Goldflex soft sanding pad from Richelieu?
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Yep. Good stuff.
I have not used the Wurth stuff, but it's probably as good.
Tim
 
Nat X said:
Abralon is wonderful, much cheaper than any paper, and dust moves through it just fine. Not so good for perfect level sanding of flat surfaces like guitar tops as the scratch patterns are so hard to see you can't really tell when it's truly level, but if you're sanding out nibs between coats of polyurethane or just polishing up to a medium gloss, it's nice to not have it load up constantly the way every fine grit paper in the world will.
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Abralon is good, but I don't find it better any than the foam backed paper for hand finishing purposes. I haven't checked the price versus Abranet. The Abralon gets clogged up and you do have to stop to knock out the build up to get the best use. Does it last longer, maybe but the loss in time knocking out build up cancels any real benefit to me.
I have it, and will use it but the foam backed sheets are really handy and in a rush I just pull off the sheets I need and go to work.
Tim
 
Tim Raleigh said:
JCLP said:
Tim, is that the Mirka Goldflex soft sanding pad from Richelieu?
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Yep. Good stuff.
I have not used the Wurth stuff, but it's probably as good.
Tim
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  You have stores that sell Wurth retail???!!!!!  The only way I could get Wurth products in the past was finding one of their automotive/industrial salespersons who had accounts with a shop that I might be buddies with.
Then, they would sell me small quantities of Wurth products since I was never going to be able to consume and reorder as much as a regular shop.. [blink] [blink] [blink]
 
No experience with the other abrasives, but we do stock the Festool version.  Shipping to you is probably four days.
 
Chris I've been dealing with Dan since he started and know that he probably has the best selection and stock bar none in Canada. The point is you should have to wait 4 days and buy product 3000 miles away when you have dealers a short drive away.

John
 
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