Our supplier kept backordering 9 microns for us. We got all sorts of curious stories. We even asked our Canadian distributor about getting these and got some of the same stories. We've heard they will never be made again, we heard we would have to order 4500 at a time and wait 6 months, heard they were back in stock and would be here on July 30, then August 6 and now it's September 30 ... if then. It seems to have something to do with either the aeronautics industry making fewer planes (they use this product, too) or a defective batch.
So, we have given up (temporaily) on the 9 microns.
Does that mean we go out of business? (as Mystie told one frustrated sharpener over the phone)
No, we see this as an opportunity to try something new.
3M also makes the same or similar paper in grit instead of micron. I've been using the 1500 grit which is a little finer and it seems to work about the same. 1200 grit is the actual 9 micron equivalent. We have ordered some of this in plus some other products that I will experiment with (so you don't have to) and should have the grit paper in soon.
Now it is so confusing in training to go from 30 to 15 to 1200 in sharpening! So we talked to the supplier we use about switching everything to grit (which makes all my training videos obsolete). "No," they cried, we are overstocked with the micron to supply all our sharpeners.
Final chapter of this saga is we will try out the grit until September or whenever the 9 microns reappear and if we like it better or possibly the same may switch from micron to grit.
Price? Seems to be the same or possibly less. They are still not giving us the straight scoop.
Anyone work for 3M and can help?????
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