Best Non-Festool Sandpaper - Bare Wood Prep

[grbmds]

Since I bought my first Festool sander, I've used Festool brand Granat sandpaper for almost all of my sanding. I mostly do bare wood prep on my projects before finishing.

Problem is that some of the Festool Granat grits come only in 100 disk packs. That's really a lot for me, but I've bought them in the past.

What other brands of ETS125 and ETS150 compatible disks do you recommend. I'm not interested right now in going with Abranet, so I'm asking about the standard hook and loop disks from other companies. Right now I need 320 grit. On Amazon, I saw a box of 50 from Serious Grit (which was listed as formerly Armadillo Abrasives). Any experience with this brand?

Although I believe this has been asked and answered before, I couldn't find direct answers to this question.

 

[GoingMyWay]

FestoolNirvana sells custom 50pc assortments in 5 sheets per grit increments:https://www.festoolnirvana.com/prod...-50-custom-abrasive-assortments-granat-50pcs.

I bought an assortment of grits for my 150 and DTS400 sanders.  I'm very happy with the service.

 

[rvieceli]

[member=19734]grbmds[/member] Indasa makes a quality line of abrasives. The company is from Portugal. I've used them and have been I think that [member=5277]Alex[/member] uses them. They make a line of 6 inch paper that has the older Festool hole style plus I think they now have a hole pattern like the new Jetstream2.

Here's a link:
https://indasa-direct.com/products/...ing-discs-69-17-series?variant=29065244737641

Ron

 

[xedos]

Klingspor has good paper and smaller quantities for Festool.
https://www.woodworkingshop.com/category.aspx?id=21&f7=FESTOOL

 

[grbmds]

[member=3192]rvieceli[/member] I noticed that the only 6" disks in the White version Indasa sells right now is 17- hole. Are the 17-hole disks compatible with the older 9-hole Festool pads?

 

[rvieceli]

I believe that the 8 outside holes and the center hole are in the same position through all the newer generations of Festool disks

Ron