Watched a guy make a fire sculpture at the Reno festival last weekend and now I don't care about the grade of steel wool anymore

I used to only use the 0000 ultra fine stuff for everything, thought it was the only way to get good sparks. Then this dude at the Riverwalk art fire show grabbed a handful of the rough 3 grade from his truck bed and whipped it on a cable spinner. Huge orange sparks raining down for like 45 seconds. I asked him about it after and he just laughed, said the cheap rough stuff burns way better and lasts longer. Tried it on an old rusty wrench I was restoring too, actually cuts through crud way faster and you can just toss it after. Anyone else just buy whatever grade is on sale now?

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kellyg146d ago

Man that story hits different. I spent years being super picky about grades for different projects and it turns out I was just overthinking everything. Feels like we get stuck in these ruts thinking the finer stuff is automatically better when really we're just missing out on what works. Good on that guy for just grabbing whatever and making it look easy. Kinda want to hit up a hardware store and grab the cheapest pack they got now just to see what happens.

dakota1605d ago

Wait @kellyg14 are you saying I should grab the cheap sandpaper for my drywall patches too?