I have been cabbing for almost 15 years. I have a Loritone from the 70's that takes SiC belts on 2 8" Expando drums It is a good machine, but it is big and belt driven and has to be stopped every 2 grit sizes to change belts. My wife told me to get a new one. After a ton of research I went with the CabKing. It is a very well built and well thought out system The 2 hard wheels make very fast work of roughing out your cabs. Both are excellent quality. The 4 remaining resin bond soft wheels are great for working up to final polish. Not as fast or aggressive as the hard wheel, they are still 10 times fast than SiC belts. Moving on to the 14K paste on the end pad was great. It does take a bit to get a good charge worked into the pad but I used less than 1/4 of a gram (the syringe was filled to 2 1/4 grams). Occasional refreshing should done probably every 10 stones or so. The system also come with a 360 grit flat lap for working flat backs. This is honestly almost as much fun as the grinding wheels. It works very well and I will be adding a lot more grits to work some flats up to polish. The left side of the unit accepts standard 1/2 arbor laps (again 6") so a good lap backer and some diamond disks can be used to work like a flat lap on the cheap (laps are around $25 and disks at around $12)Everything on the machine is easy to use. The water trays come off easy, the side panels are removable, the splash guards can be moved around as can the hand rests. The water spray system is brilliant. A very well made pond pump is attached (via a brass reducer valve) to the standard vinyl tubing (I think it is aquarium air tubing). This tees into the 2 hoods. Each wheel as a triple jet spray nozzle (adjustable) and there are spray nozzles for each arbor end for the laps. All are adjustable and can be turned on and off separate. No worries about cross contamination as the wheels are provided with fresh water at all times. You will need a couple 5 gallon buckets. One for the fresh water and the pump, and one for the dirty waste water. The motor has a built in GFI and a waterproof on off switch. The motor is mounted to a sturdy waterproof baseboard with nice rubber feet. The trays set in some grommets build into the baseboard. They are a little difficult to get lined up perfectly but you get used to it pretty quick. The trays have drain connectors at the back. The hoses for these drains are the only real let down in the system. It is very thin walked flex tubing (like dishwasher drain tubing). It is very hard to push into the drains as it collapses too easy. I had mine pop off a couple times until I figured out that you need to put the rubber grommet into the tubing first, then work that into the pan outlet. It was not an easy task and I will be replacing those lines very soon. The system comes with a couple arbor wrenches, and an allen key for the locking collar. You will need a 2mm Allen wrench to adjust the water control knobs it you want all the white lines to line up perfectly (I did). The last wonderful nugget is the lamp. This thing is amazing. It flexes into just about any position, and has enough of a reach to shine on the front of the wheels, or all the way to the side laps. It is bright and has a warm LED bulb. I would have preferred a harsh white lamp, but I'm pleased with the amount of light out of this lamp. They even include a nice long vinyl apron and a really decent pair of safety goggles (that will fit over eyeglasses). Instructions are well written (in real English) and a nice book is included in how to use diamond to cut stones. Best of all the unit is assembled in the USA with foreign and domestic parts. Reentel has a lot of lapidary equipment under their name (Inland, Hi-Tech, CabKing, TumbleBee) and their parts are pretty reasonable in price. They have a good website and ship pretty fast. They know how to package products so they arrive safe and sound. If you have always dreamed of polish rocks into cabs- then this is a great machine that should last a lifetime.Update: My GFI plug went on the fritz. The solenoid was acting up and tripping the micro switch. I contacted them (Reentel) on Saturday and they shipped a replacement plug out Monday! 3 screws and I was up and running again. Machine has been such a joy to run and setup/cleanup is quick and easy. Takes me 15 minutes to go from a preformed to a polished cab. Just way too much fun!

So first off I would never spend this much money on a machine I would just use the other machines I have and “rough” it! BUT my husband got me this for Christmas and it has been a true blessing! I can create a piece in literally a tenth of the time and it comes out 100% better with a lot less effort !! I did modify the hand rest so I had more control and less wrist strain as I have small hands. I also added rubber mats in the water trays so if I dropped a stone while working on it it wasn’t hitting metal but a soft rubber surface instead:) I was pleasantly surprised regarding the water usage, I filled a 5 gallon bucket half way and have completed 30 stones and the bucket is still a quarter full meaning I’m not having to constantly refill or empty the new and used water buckets which can be a pain I have experienced with my other equipment. The grit wheels haven’t shown much wear after 30 stones so I’m hoping they will be as advertised and last quite a long time! I will update this review in a month and let you know if I have had to replace or if they are still going strong! I don’t wright many reviews but when something has made me this happy I feel I must share so others can share in the joy by giving this product a try!! The ease of going from one grit wheel to the next without stopping and changing it from start to finish is amazing! I was doing 5-8 stones at a time when having to change the grit discs after each step thus never finishing anything in one sitting but now I can do one stone from shaping to polishing in about 10min. A true time saver ! I was a little disappointed there was not a variable speed feature however I discovered the wheels turn at a perfect speed regardless of what step or type of project I’m working on. Final remark yes it’s expensive and yes it’s worth every penny😁

This machine has been amazing easy to set up awesome to use 100% would recommend cab King again comes with all the accessories that you need it has been tons of fun to make cabs and other things with this machine.

Great machine. Makes rock hounding worthwhile.

I do like the polisher. If you do bigger slabs get the 10 inch you will be glad you did. Or you can take one disk of each side to make it work. Smaller projects work great with this one.

High quality machine. Wheels included are ok but there are better. The only problem I have is the wheel spacing being so close and also the machine does spray water out more than I thought it would.

I like the ease of how you can set up and use