3M EverRun Bands

So we've been carrying and offering the 3M EverRun bands for a number of years now and they've been a roaring success with everyone who has used them. The one question that we always get though is "How do I move beyond the 800 grit?"


For the most part, we haven't had a great answer for that. We normally tell people to give the shaped smoothing tools in the Square shape a try and use that. Those have worked well for most people, but they aren't the same feel and don't behave quite the same as the EverRun bands, so it kind of threw some people off.

Well, with the advent of the new electrostatic diamond material from 3M last year, we've been able to play around with a number of different uses for this material. Once we made some 4 inch velcro backed disks out of the 675 material for a customer who needed to clean up a surface from the electroplated disk, we discovered that the 675L material is an excellent way to give a clean easy pre-polish surface to glass surfaces ground with the normal electroplated diamonds.

From that realization we were able to create with 3M the same 1/2 inch diamond band as the EverRun diamond bands but with the 675L electrostatic diamond material instead. Now we can offer a fantastic way to move from the rougher electroplated EverRun diamond bands to a much finer electrostatic EverRun diamond band to give a clean easy pre-polish finish to work from. These new EverRun Diamond Finishing bands should close the gap from rough grind to final polish for the 1/2 inch diamond bands that everyone has been looking for.


We're hoping to be able to also formulate and test some cerium impregnated bands with 3M that will complete the entire flow from rough grind to final polish with the EverRun bands. We'll keep you posted on that one. In the meantime, check out the EverRun Diamond Finishing bands and see for yourself how they'll improve your finishing work.