So I figured I’d update you guys on the order I made with Kbee (6 100’ spools of .4). First of all, it took fucking forever for them to ship it out, about a week. When I finally did get it, I kinda flipped out out and sent them an email which never got responded to. It was probably the dirtiest wire I’ve ever gotten... I do have to admit, it was spooled beautifully though. I still have some .4 from another company so I didn’t bother trying out the new kbee .4 until yesterday. Now if this was high gauge round wire and it was this dirty, I would probably hAve just tossed it.... BUT since it’s ribbon wire I’m actually making it work. Normally after I pull my ribbon off the spool I keep dipping my fingers in water and running them down the ribbon to get them to stack naturally. Since the ribbon is dirty I actually go near my sink and rather then run my fingers down the ribbon I take a really wet paper towel and run that down the ribbon a bunch of times to clean it up. As I’m cleaning it the water is making them stack up so by the time I’m done cleaning them, there all ready to go and ready to be framed.
so like I said, if this wasn’t ribbon I probably would have tossed it... but since I usually wet my ribbon anyway, cleaning them with the paper towel and getting them to naturally stack at the same time isn’t that big of a deal. So yes, it bothers me that it came dirty, bothers me that they took a week to ship it, bothers me that they aren’t responding to my emails BUT you kinda get what you pay for. $18 for 600’ of .4 ribbon is an amazing deal. Would I buy it again? I honestly don’t know... I’ve only been using it for a day... by the time I’ve used 100’ of it I might be annoyed that I have to clean it every time before I’m using it. If you need bulk ribbon for cheap or if your just learning to use ribbon and might go thru a lot of it practicing to stack, even if u just need to budget your building spending, then yeah I’ll recommend it.... if you don’t want to have to deal with cleaning the wire and you have the money to buy ribbon elsewhere then I’m inclined to agree with you.
I also think it’s important to note this again in this post... I’ve purchased a few spools of ribbon from Kbee before and the spools where pretty much perfect. Very clean, spooled decent, etc... idk if they have a different process when they sell the wire wholesale and that’s why it’s cheaper... OR if they just truly are hit or miss, one order will be great and the next shit... idk but I feel that this is also important to note here so anyone who reads this can calculate all the variables before they place an order.
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