[Steve]

While polishing a wilderness blade last night on the 8" wheel, I got to the 400x cork and noticed that there were just a couple of "kind of deep" scratches on one bevel. I thought the cork belt could handle it, so I kept on and on, making little or no progress. Finally I just took the cork belt off, jumped back to the 400x tractor belt and got rid of them in just a few seconds. I'd spent about 10 times longer trying to get the cork belt to do what is is not designed to do. The coarser belt, though I had to stop the machine and change belts, did the job, quickly and easily. I keep on learning on this job, it seems! Don't fight it, just do it right and save time and frustration!