I'm waiting for my hematite to show up. I ordered all three plates. I felt sort of weird spending that much on a grinder but even though I have some top notch grinders I always felt that the process could be improved. When doing a fine grind, even on my 3½" Space Case, there always seems to be a bunch of really fine particles that stick to the teeth of the grinder and build up around the edges. Anyway GfL seems to be a good company and I'm pretty sure I made a good decision.
Have I told anyone today how much I love magnets!
Got mine in the mail about an hour ago, feels really solid, can't stop playing with it.
I had ordered 3 pieces Hematite Fine Grind.
I received 3 pieces of Hematite with medium grind plate and a fine grind plate in silver.
I must say I like the colour mismatch with the silver even better then what I had ordered so that worked out to be a nice bonus. Especially with the added Med plate.
I tossed in a .4 and started grinding my first impression was that it wasn't working properly. It turned with zero resistance like I forgot to put my bud in. I even opened it up to check, I knew damn well I put my bud in but I've never experienced a grinder turn so freely. Anyway there was my bud 80% pulverized, a few more turns and it was empty again. Very quick
I don't really have a nice grinder to compare this one 2, I have a New Vape coarse grind that completely seizes on me about the 3rd or 4th turn and a collection of freebies that came with vape purchases.
This is definitely going to be my new favourite grinder, Thanks @Grinders for Life I LOVE MAGNETS
OH did I mention that it's beautiful ? The Hematite is like a dark blue gun metal
whats up!
so my onyx with medium plate came in and first impressions: Beautiful! it came with all the peices individually wrapped!? gotta keep that baby in pristine condition.
i can only compare to my medium scs 2 peice. i love the consistancy of the scs but having the extra storage on deck (without threads) is amazing!! ive owned the free piu grinder and a few interplanetary development sw1 and sw2 and this by far is my favorite, ive even found a pull string bag so i can keep it scratch free for as long as possible
heres some pics (GH for scale)
its not much wider in diameter then the scs but the height makes turning effortless compared to my fingers rubbing together once in a while with the scs. id say since the scs is 2 peice some herb comes out chunky with fine bits sprinkled in but not with the brilliant cut grinder. very uniform and fluffy (my preference)
ill admit i was skeptical. now im a BCG 4L there just isnt a reason to have more then one grinder. so ill be gifting my trusty scs to a buddy.
edit: got the pics to work finally sorry
to be honest this grinder is so sexy i guess thats why i looked for someting to protect it. will be an excellent add on. my scs is pissed. never recieved as much affection lol heres mineNice review. We always had a lot of respect for the SCS. It was one of grinders to beat. It's great to hear you prefer the BCG over the SCS.
BCG 4L. I like that.
@antispleen and @Hogni both suggested that we make a velvet pull-string bag for the grinder. We did.
Here are some pictures. We just got them in yesterday.
Good morning all you FCer's!
Who knew grinding could be so much fun?
I had some time for grinding and pictures last night, so we'll call this a early honeymoon review.
I'll apologize for the quality of the pictures now, they're off and old S4 I keep around for just these types of things, still my favorite phone.
She's more beautiful than I could capture, I'm no photographer.
I thought the best way to give everyone an early, broad view on this was to break it down.
First, with my slightly dry 55% RH material, we set out to see what the largest amount she'd grind comfortably. It can handle more than I'd regularly do for cleanliness reasons, I settled in on .3g loads.
You can't see the scale with the flash, but I pulled off three .3g bud tops..... and we started with the fine plate.
I broke the bud tip into three smaller pieces and gave it three full turns to find....
Not bad, but I noticed some starting to gather in the outside edge, something that's plagued my favorite grinder, the GR8TR. Looking over the lid, I notice teeth on the outside rim? Ok, they may have this covered!
I realize now I didn't get a pic of the results inside, but she was clean all around. The only thing left was a small fleck or two that caught in the openings on their way down.
The grind is extremely consistent for a fine grind and still almost had a fluffiness to it. The GR8TR may be just a touch finer grind than this, and maybe that's the difference. But this seems to have just a touch courser size, but keeps an airy texture. It packed and vaped very well in both my Evo and MV last night, both basket style loads. This morning it really excelled in the Fierce with a loading capsule.
If this thing can stay clean, everyone is going to have a new favorite grinder! Moving on I finished with another .3g in the medium plate.....
That's the fine grind in the glass, medium grind in the grinder. The coarse plate.....
That's the fine grind top right in the glass, medium grind bottom left in the glass, and coarse grind in the grinder.
All three plates give you a very consistent result. It turns very easy, smooth as advertised. I'm beyond happy with this so far, congratulations @Grinders for Life !
Ok, I should be beta testing for you, this is an easy one. Let's work out a way to change either the pin on the grinding plate or the teeth on the bottom of the grinding plate. They are just off from being able to stack inside each other, or rather, stack with your two plates on top of one another.
It would both conserve space and protect all the plates if you could nest them. Picture your grinder with all three plates installed on the shelf, you need to grind, you pull the ones you don't need off, put aside nested, and grind. When done, throw them back on for safety, they're sharp and away you go.
I have a few ideas, but without knowing the progressional design history, not sure which would work best. I should have taken of a picture of my attempt to show how close they are now to fitting.....
Wanting to finish on a positive note for a wonderful new product...... I can't say enough great things about this grinder! I'm anxious to run something a little stickier and more moist thru it, but based on how it's handling what I've thrown at it so far, I'm guessing it will eat it up and spit it out just like it did last night.
Surprisingly, that would have been my 1st choice had I known that color could be so shiny & sexy, like the shiny brown OG Ghost MV-1 that GV calls black. Normally, nothing makes me deviate from blues. 
) Not only would these be popular colors in their own right, but think of how these colors would interplay with each other on the same grinder. Purple with green or blue. & Spice & or pumpkin orange with either green, purple or hematite. Wow! Imagine a spice orange grinder plate & hematite grinder. 
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