Micro-Mesh 3 X 4 Soft Touch Pads

I cut these in half and they work great for finishing and polishing small metal (brass, copper, stainless steel) parts. Easily get a mirror finish.

These are amazing! All you need is patience and you can make any piece of wood look like you put a gloss finish on it. I use them for sanding knife scales and after rough shaping, I use these pads starting with 1500 grit and progressing all the way to 12,000. If you have the patience to sand things, and you want a flawless finish, these are perfect! I opted for the 3 x 4 pads, though they make a 2 x 2 as well. I cut them in half to make 2 sets of 2 x 3 pads. NOTE: The pads are colored and have a matching color coded chart to identify the various grits. Some of the colors are tough to discern if you have poor eyesight or are colorblind. So far, each set I have ordered has been packaged in order by grit, so I take a permanent marker and write a number from 1 to 9 on the foam edge of the sanding pad to identify coarsest to finest. I put the same number on the provided color chart to make it easy to identify which pad I am using.

Good quality and size, works well. Second purchase. Can be used for plastic, metal, etc. A little pricy but worth it.

I used these to buff out scratches, stains and dull spots on my Corian countertop. I recently moved into a new home with Corian countertops. They had many areas of fine scratches from daily wear, deeper line scratches, and dull areas of wear at the counter ends and corners. One area had a ring stain and another area of circular scratches where the previous owner had obviously tried to remove a similar ring stain. It took some time and a lot of rubbing, but these pads erased all the damage and brought out a beautiful shine. These pads go to much finer "polishing" grits than the others I saw that were recommended for Corian. For the scratches, I started with a grit around 4 levels down from the finest. If I couldn't see much change I worked my way down coarser in grit until I saw the scratches start to buff out, but still leaving finer scratches from the grit. Then I worked my way back up into to gradually finer grits until all the buffing scratches disappeared, then on to the finest 3 grits to restore a glass-like shine. The 2 or 3 finest grits were enough to restore the shine on the dulled areas. For the ring stain, I used a medium grit until I could no longer see the ring, then worked up to the finest grit to polish. Doing it by hand took some work, but it was worth the effort! The countertops look almost new. Now that the damaged spots are gone I'll go through the finest 2 or 3 polish levels on a regular basis to keep the beautiful shine. The deeper the damage the coarser you'll need to go and the more pads you'll have to work your way through to restore the surface, so start conservatively and work down just until you see results, then up to the finest grit to polish.

Bought these over the 2x2 sizes to cut these up in to 3rd's. More bang for the buck that way. Use these to polish frets, and smooth wooden surfaces. Micromesh is amazing for when you don't feel like pulling out a rotary tool to polish frets that might get buffing compound everywhere. Or if you want to really make a surface incredibly smooth. Work on leather, wood, and metal. I love micromesh. These are a decent product.

The abrasive detached from the foam backing on first use of 1500 grit pad...Went back to my old set. The old set is worn, but the glue is superior. Not impressed with these new pads so far (only used one pad). No reply yet from the company, not expecting to hear from them at this point. When the glue holds, these are great for finishing guitars. Use them in order of grit size and then polish... EDIT: One hour after this posting I heard back from Micro Surface (the manufacturer). They are interested in taking care of my problem. Great customer service. Great product. Changing review to 4 stars...The glue still failed, but my old pads are doing great, just worn. 5 stars if they fix the glue...

- I had my first experience with Micro-Mash with a stainless-steel-sink scratch-removal kit. I didn't use it on a sink, but it worked great on various other stainless steel items, and worked *even better* on tropical hardwoods - the polish those put on Gabon Ebony and so on was actually reflective - not like a mirror of course, but not like anything I'd seen on unfinished wood before. - So, I bought this set. As described, they are all a full 3" X 4" - I didn't measure the thickness of the foam layer, but it's thick enough to write the grit sizes on the side with an ultra-fine Sharpie. ((That was the first thing I did, just to make things as easy as possible.)) - And yup, they work great! I like these sooooooo much more than sandpaper, because they don't "shed" grit, and the abrasive works so well. - Now, I *do* tend to buy "dimensional lumber", things like guitar fret-board blanks, other luthier-grade woods, and other pieces that are smaller and fairly smooth to begin with, simply because I do not, and cannot, have a well-equipped shop. Plus, anything I do is fairly small, anyway. So for smoothing-down prepped wood, 'sanding' between finish coats, and the like, these are superb. - Common sense should indicate that, given what these do well, they will not do much on rough lumber or salvaged barn beams or the like; they are NOT "first pass" abrasive pads. Of course, we all know that *someone* will give them one star because they didn't work to turn salvaged railroad ties into glass-smooth objects of art, LOL!!! But seriously, for musical instruments, miniatures, and the like, I really like these because they work so well, are so much cleaner than sandpaper, and the sponge/foam layer adapts to curves and surface imperfections.

Even though a color-coded grit chart is included, it would be nice to have each grit labeled on each piece. Like others, I simple wrote the grit on the foam edge. These work great and are reusable. The key to increasing longevity is to ensure that you are cleaning them after each use with water.