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don griffith
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Yep, you are. I highly recommend a healthy dose of psychotropic fortitude. :silly:

If we imagine the individual grits (technical term…) as being smaller on the 1000 vs. the 800 or lower, then we can also imagine that there are more of them in a given area and therefor they are closer together.
The ‘grits’ (not the breakfast kind…) make noise as they travel in contact. If they are closer together, can we then imagine that they are hitting the steel more often?
On mine, I hear, and would expect to hear anywhere, a higher frequency with less amplitude, since the ‘grits’ are also doing less damage (like a spade shovel vs. a garden trowel).

Well, this is the best I can imagine without some brewed inspiration… 😛