I like the cheap ones you get at Sam's Club in the big plastic bag. Quantity beats quality. No doubt all these high dollar towels of which
you speak are better, but not if you have to economize by buying fewer towels.
Note: I do the "Garry Dean" wash method by which you use towel after towel, so its an issue for me. For guys who do something different and just need something to buff
off the wax, its different.
If you like Sam’s Club then you need to try the Costco Kirkland gold towel. I’ve personally not seen the ones from Sam’s Club, but I’ve seen everything from Walmart and I’m not a fan. The Kirkland gold’s have dual nap, close to 350~360 gsm and with hard paint they’ll do OK. But those darned sewn edges are something it takes great care to use!
Thing is, if you go to a bulk supplier of better quality microfiber then you can afford to buy quality towels.
QUALITY will ALWAYS WIN over quantity! Always.
Did you sell the grit guards? I would have.LMAO!
Now onto the subject of drying towels Cobra guzzlers are really thirsty......I have several but my favorite drying towel is Mohers waffle weave drying towel.....it
really sucks....
It up!
I thought about selling him a couple of my grit guards for sure. But AG has gone to this crazy $150 free shipping point which would end up costing me more than I could
have sold them for.
When I had him on the phone I did a quick Google search and there was a site that popped up with really cheap grit guards. I’ve seen it before, Dr. B’s. Never bought
from them though. Figured they’d make up for the pricing with some insane shipping costs (but checked just now and it’s only $7.95, not bad.
I have 3 of those Cobra foam core guzzlers, thirsty they be Obi-wan . When using waffle weaves though I’ve found I like thinner ones, and Microfiber Tech has some
Korean waffle weave units that are nice.
For that matter their little 300 gsm waffle weave is VERY affordable (by the case) and a perfect rinseless towel.
I was hoping someone could do the math!
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Math you say?
So I was reading this thing and that got me to thinking. Somewhere in the shop there is an old set of triple beams that I used to weigh gold jewelry
and gunpowder with. It’s been YEARS since I’ve used them, but after some searching I found the little suckers. Grabbed up a bunch of coins and calibrated them. Got the
1~10 dead on, then the 10~100. After that the 100 and up is good to go.
So this is what I came up with after over an hour of weighing towels and doing
conversions. There are some VERY INTERESTING results!
First off I started with Microfiber Tech 360’s. They sell them as 360’s but if you look at the product ID number it starts with 365. They do this with all their towels,
and those first numbers are more indicative of the ‘real’ GSM. I’m going to throw out several data sets, the towel ID, the weight of that towel, the (converted) weight
of a square meter.
MFT-Gold dual-nap 360 60.10 363.8874 Both of these have been washed
MFT-Black dual-nap 360 61.40 371.7585 Unused - washed
CG-Gold dual-nap 360 68.30 413.5359 (Sewn in tags, tags attached UNWASHED)
MFT-velvet shortnap 400 64.05 387.8035 New unused - washed
MFT-DkBlu dual-nap 400 68.50 414.6863 Ultra fine thread tightly packed same construction as the 360’s
MFT-yellow dual-nap 400 68.90 417.1668 Towel from last year - Normal thread same as in the 360’s
MFT-LtBlu dual-nap 530 87.50 529.7862 These I stated last year I prefer over the Cobra 530’s, still do.
Cobra-530 dual-nap 530 84.80 513.4385 The Cobra seems to have longer ‘loops’, but isn’t as dense as the Microfiber Tech towel.
MFT Duo-plush 600 97.90 592.7550 This batch is from last year
MFT Duo-plush 700 114.90 695.6849 This is a new towel, has been washed
MFT ShaggyDog 360 63.00 381.4460 Used half a dozen times – Freebie from “rmd”
Now for the GOOD STUFF - Like you all showed up just for the cheap stuff. :laughing:
MFT Korean 460 75.7 458.3407 LAST YEAR’S VERSION – Edgeless – Sold as a 460
MFT Korean 470 84.6 512.2275 Edgeless -While sold as a 470 this is CLEARLY a much heavier towel!
TheRag Co Korean 500 79.30 482.5595 Edgeless - Another FREEBIE provided by “rmd”
Clearly when comparing the last three towels, all are edgeless, and are Korean split fiber. I included last years version, the 460 just for the data. However, when comparing the two new, "talk of the town" towels, (
no matter that I do not have a You Tube Channel) the Microfiber Tech towel is EASILY the better overall towel. It of course can be had in blue and gray, both with and without a black silk border. It is thicker, feels better in the hand, and not only meets specification but EXCEEDS it. This towel should clearly be sold as a 500 GSM!
I was of the thought before that Microfiber Tech lead the field in providing a quality product at affordable pricing, but this “470” is clearly a “must have” for those that want a Korean towel in their arsenal! This is regardless of whether or not you are paying retail or wholesale. However both sites offer some sort of discounts on volume. Yet Rag Co requires you to purchase 30 to get their towel at a price that is still over a dollar more than Microfiber Tech! (
FWIW step up the volume and you can be rewarded with well over $2 savings per unit.)
Not everyone can see, feel and/or appreciate what a split weave Korean towel brings to the table, or for that matter even NEED such a towel. I know I usually don't need
one, (but it's nice to know they are close by). However, if you feel you need one, then you need to look up MFT and put one in your own hands.
A note on measurements. The edgeless towels are not all the same. However they are close enough to 16x16 to call it close enough. Along one axis one may be just a touch
over, where on the other axis it might be just a tad under. Those that know the Korean fiber know that it’ll stretch in one direction but not so much in the other. Whatever may be short can surely be stretched, (
even on the non-stretching axis).
After all this I realized that I didn’t include the data column stating what each towel SHOULD weigh based on it’s advertised weight. For those that want to do the
math, the figure you want to use is: 6.0546996094. That is how much of a square meter a SINGLE 16”x16” towel is. So basically you take the weight of a towel, multiply
it by 6.0546996094 and you get the total weight of a sq. meter. Conversely, you’ll divide the weight, say 500 by 6.0546996094 to find out how much a 500 gsm towel
should weigh (82.5804).
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