I just posted this same review in the
Brilliant Cut Grinder thread, and figured it belonged here as well:
I've had my production-model BCGrinder for over a month now. I'd had and been using the final beta model for a few months before
@Grinders for Life sent me the final model that I've now been using for several weeks. I'd been meaning to get on here and post a review for a couple weeks now, but I never seemed to find the time.
For starters, as many have said here, I could see myself using only this grinder for the rest of my days and being perfectly happy. I haven't used every grinder on the market but, as you can see from the ones I currently own in my signature, I own a few of the top-rated grinders available. However, I haven't used anything except for the BCG since the day it arrived. It's everything I need for all my vaporizers.
The two places that gunk up on any grinder are always the threads and the inner and outer walls around the grinding area, where they make contact between the top grinding plate and the lower/middle grinding plate...of course, the gunked-up threads are eliminated by the all-magnetic threadless connections. However, the elimination of gunk collecting on the side-walls where they rub against each other as you twist the grinder has been eliminated because those outer walls never touch. As many here have said, the top section wiggles a little side to side because the upper teeth that surround the center pin are what holds the top piece in the center and doesn't allow the outer walls around the grinding area to touch, ever. So nothing ever gets smashed together between those walls....buildup there is eliminated!
^ Those two above unique aspects of the BCG are mainly why I feel that it's the best on the market right now. The first one, the threadless magnetic connections has been done before (though rarely), but never this well. The teeth and the center pin holding it together so that the sidewalls never smash herb between them and develop buildup is genius and Is completely original and unique to this grinder as far as I'm aware.
Beyond that, the cutting edge on the top of the center pin just eliminates the issues other grinders have with herb getting smashed between the magnets and stuck there.
The beta model had a bit of an issue with some loose leafy bits remaining behind in the grinding chamber long after everything else had fallen through, requiring a shitload more twisting and twisting and twisting before the last thin-light bits would fall through. That issue has been virtually eliminated with the changes to the teeth between the beta model and the current final production model. The fine grind plate still requires a little bit more twisting at the end of the grind to get the last bits down, but it does it with less twisting than any other grinder I've used with a fine-grind plate that fine, like my GR8TR with their fine grind plate. The fine-grind GR8TR always has leafy bits that don't want to go down. It may be impossible to do any better with that fine of a grind plate than what
@Grinders for Life has done with the BCG. But the medium plate tears through it very fast and leaves no leafy bits behind whatsoever. I have to say that the medium plate is fantastic and shreds through anything I've put into it with just a few back and fourth twists, leaving nothing behind most of the time from the first time I open the grinder to check. The medium grind is the most versatile for all my vapes, and if I could only have one plate, that would be it.
I've barely touched the coarse plate because the medium is plenty course for 99% of my needs.
I've said before that I wish it was a little bigger, with thicker gripping area around the outside sides of the top-piece, because it would fit better in my hands, and a BCG that is physically about the size of the Super Weapon II would be an ideal size for my hands, and I still feel that way...However, after getting used to this size, it really is plenty big enough for the average user, including me. In fact, I usually grind, and then leave the herb in the grinder as storage, and spend a day or so scooping it out into my vapes. The grinder seals well-enough that the herb will be fine in there for that short of a period of time. So I don't really need a larger grinder at all...I just like the feel of a slightly larger size device in my hands, but I still don't need the larger amount of ground material at a time that the larger size would provide. So I'm also very happy with the current size now that I've gotten used to it.
There is really not much to criticize about this grinder. I brush it out after every use, and the grinder is still quite clean. Barely anything has collected on the inside surface. I doubt I'll need to clean this more often than every few months, as long as I brush it out regularly like I've always done with all my grinders.
I know that this grinder is a little more pricey than some of its other top-competitors, but it really is in a league of its own and I doubt that anyone who owns one will ever regret their purchase. The reason we aficionados want a higher-end product is because all the little perfected aspects of it make the overall experience better, and the BCGrinder has given me the best grinding experience that I've had so far with any grinder. Plus, the people who run
@Grinders for Life have impressed me with how they've looked to the community and listened to us in designing and producing this grinder. They run the type of business that I feel deserves our support.
