The Brilliant Cut Grinder has been in daily use since I first started testing it in 2018. I tested the Brilliant Cut Grinder for more than a year before reviewing it, and it’s been serving as a daily-use weed grinder ever since.

The Brilliant Cut grinder raised the bar and still reigns as the King of Threadless Weed Grinders – a category of grinders created for the Brilliant Cut and all of the threadless grinders that it inspired.

The BCG changed the weed grinder world. Its threadless design and focus on the user experience have influenced the next generation of weed grinders. The Brilliant Cut has been cloned and it’s been copied, but none of the threadless copycats compare to the buttery smooth feel of the Brilliant Cut.

This grinder is threadless, gorgeous, and an absolute joy to hold and use.

Brilliant Cut Grinder Review Video

First Threadless Grinder

The Brilliant Cut Grinder is a threadless three-piece grinder. The top, bottom, and middle sections all clink perfectly with the magical force of neodymium magnets and some very clever design and engineering.

The magnets are strong, and the pieces align naturally. This is the fastest grinder to open and close.

The Brilliant Cut Grinder made all other weed grinders suck. Threadless grinders are much nicer to use than traditional threaded grinders. The Brilliant Cut Grinder raised the bar and set a new level of expectation and joy.

No threads means no cross-threading. No thread-jamming. No dirty or damaged threads. Ever.

The three-piece magnetic design makes the grinder interface very quick and natural. Reassembling the grinder by simply waving the pieces over one another feels super-human, and it’s so damn fun.

Never, Ever Jams. Never Cleaned

I’ve pushed more than 5lb of Southern California’s dankest, stickiest nugs through my Brilliant Cut Grinder, and it has NEVER backed down or needed any assistance. This grinder has one of the best teeth designs on the market, and they made revision after revision until the teeth were perfect.

The Brilliant Cut Grinder retains its buttery smooth operation even when its as dirty as it will get. Even when completely caked with grinder hash, this grinder continues to work just fine.

The most abusive weed to any grinder is CBD Hemp flower. For my ultimate grinder testing, I increased the humidity of my CBD nugs to 69% for maximum toughness.

These dank, moist CBD nugs bring ALL grinders to their knees. Many grinders jam up with even small chunks, but the Brilliant Cut Grinder powers through them with ease. The Brilliant Cut Grinder is a modern marijuana marvel.

It’s a Different Experience

I love smoking and vaping with other people and letting them use my BCG. They’re always drawn to the captivating gem-cut design on the top. The grinder’s soft satin finish catches the light and reflects different shades of its base color.

Everyone I share this grinder with is impressed with how quickly and easily the Brilliant Cut grinds through their nugs and how smooth it turns.

I had never seen so many people so happy about using a grinder, and then I realized I’d never been so excited to share my grinder. You have to feel it.

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The Brilliant Cut Grinder is one of the nicest Aluminum grinders on the market. It’s also available in stainless steel.

See my Best Weed Grinder page to see how it compares to other herb grinders.

Brilliant Cut Grinder 3-Piece Grinder Options

The three piece grinder is the standard nowadays and Brilliant Cut offers four fantastic options. This grinder is available in aluminum and stainless steel, in two convenient sizes and three different grind plates.

Stainless Steel Brilliant Cut Grinder

When the Brilliant Cut first launched in 2018, it was exclusively made in Aluminum. The Stainless Steel Brilliant Cut was introduced in 2023. The Stainless Steel version of the Brilliant Cut is almost the same as the standard version.

Here are the differences between the Stainless Steel Brilliant Cut and the Aluminum:

• Stainless Steel grinders are much heavier than the aluminum version
• Stainless Steel is much harder and won’t get dinged or damaged as easily as the standard aluminum grinder
• The Stainless Steel Brilliant Cut currently comes in a Matte finish, while the standard aluminum version is glossy
• Stainless BCG is flat on the bottom. Standard BCG has the gem facets on top and bottom.
• The SSBCG is more than double the cost of the standard AL, but it should last forever
• Some users have reported that their SSBCG is not as sharp as their standard BCG due to the sandblasted surface

Coarse vs. Medium vs. Fine

The Brilliant Cut grind plates can be quickly swapped out. The BCG can be purchased with a single grind plate or multiple plates. You can even choose different colors for each grind plate! There isn’t a huge difference between the three different plates, but there is a difference – especially with fresh, moist nugs.

A moist nug of Pink Runtz

Broken up into smaller chunks for each test

Coarse Grind Consistency

The coarse grind plate is the fastest way to grind. The Brilliant Cut is already a fast grinder, but the coarse plate shreds sticky nugs into a vapable-sized fotter faster than any other weed grinder.

Compared to other coarse-grind weed grinders, the Brilliant Cut has a more consistent result and a much nicer user experience. Its coarse isn’t all that coarse, though.

The Coarse plate is the funnest and fastest to use. It can still be turned upside-down while grinding to achieve a finer grind, too. If you only choose one plate, it should probably be the coarse plate or the medium plate.

Medium and Fine both perform better than coarse in a dry herb vaporizer, but coarse grind has its benefits.

Medium Grind Plate

The Medium is the best of both worlds and perfect for most vaporizers.

The Medium grinder plate has smaller holes than the coarse plate. The teeth are also slightly larger on the medium plate.

I use the medium grind plate most often. My three active Brilliant Cut Grinders are all using the medium. Sometimes I switch to coarse, but lately I’ve been chasing the most impact possible from a single hit, and that requires a fine grind. I turn the grinder upside-down when I grind.

Fine Grind Example

I rarely use the Brilliant Cut Fine grind plate because it takes too long, and it feels overloaded easily.

It does great with normal amounts but struggles with multiple nugs at once.

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2 Piece Brilliant Cut Grinder Options

Most dry herb vape users prefer the 3-piece grinder because it doubles as a storage container for the leftover ground herb. Vape users typically grind a gram and will vape 1/3 of it. Smokers aren’t like that. Smokers will typically dump their grinder into a rolling tray and roll ALL of their ground herb into their joint or blunt.

Brilliant Cut Grinder has released a 2-piece grinder with multiple grind options!

Factory Second Brilliant Cut Grinders

This grinder company has a high standard. They’re picky and they demand perfection.

Grinder pieces that aren’t quite perfect are sold as factory seconds. Community members frequently report that factory-second Brilliant Cut grinders appear to be flawless. Most people can’t find anything wrong with their factory seconds.

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Brilliant Cut Grinder

The Brilliant Cut Grinder has been in daily use since I first started testing it in 2018. I tested the Brilliant Cut Grinder for more than a year before reviewing it, and it's been serving as a daily-use weed grinder ever since.

Editor's Rating:
9.5

Pros

• Turns like Butter
• Completely Threadless
• Joy to Use
• Customizable Colors
• Customizable Grind
• 2 Sizes
• 11 colors

Cons

• Aluminum
• Made to Order