Best Budget Machined Plates? 

When I saw them on your IG, I thought the same thing about the finish. They look like something Coop made in his backyard

Thank you talking about your Bells of Steel solid plates. We all appreciate your openness 👍

Love this. I have been looking for narrow 10lb plates to fit with my Gungnir Dumbblers when they come this summer! Thank you :) Rogue was more than double the price after shipping per pair

Just got some of these today. Thanks for the review, Brandon!

I've had pairs of 25, 10, 5, and 2.5 for about almost a year. Fit and finish on all of mine are flawless - no rough edges anywhere, no blemishes, no irregularities of any kind that I can find. The holes are just snug enough, and the weights are all easily within tolerance. I personally like the gray finish. These are really nice plates.

Not sure if you have one yet, but I grabbed a Bells of Steel trap bar and it is a terrific value. Thanks for another detailed review

Love mine. Got them when no others were available and have no regrets.

Hey! I’d love your take on Synergee fitness! Also Canadian based and I just got their barbell and it’s awesome! Great price, great quality and free shipping for folks in Canada! I think doing a review on their equipment would be beneficial for your Canadian based viewers!

I’ve been waiting for these !!!!

Great vid. Bells of steel is an awesome company and I've bought most of my home gym from them.

Just got the 605 set. Super happy with them. They are in fact weight plates and they do fit on a barbell. Seems to get the job done lol I got their Reverse Hammer too and I’m really happy with it. GHD/Rev Hyper combo that costs less than $1k and is well built. Definitely worth the purchase

I have these, and the Cerakote Utility Bar . Good plates and bar and no shipping charge sweetens the deal. I compared them to some Rogue plates I have and the center seemed the same.

For the viewers in the Indianapolis area, they usually offer very good discounts, since they won’t have to pay to ship, if you pick up. If I can fit a SSB, FID bench, plates, etc in a small car, you can too!

Perfect timing, was just consider buying these!

Hey Brandon, Im thinking of getting Machines plates as well, have you experienced your bar sleeves getting scratched up a lot overtime using them? Just concerned about that because I have a very expensive bar (Rogue Ohio bar) and don’t want it to be ruined because of plates

I have the bare naked power bar and in my opinion it’s just as good as the bare steel OPB, great products at a great price

Another great review. Gotta wonder why they chose that color?! They look like awesome plates, but that color is a bit unusual. The side by side shot next to the Strength Co's plates really shows how similar and appealing they are.

Would love to see a review of the B.O.S reverse hammer - their GHD/reverse hyper combo. It sounds like a great space-saver for a home gym, but I'm not sure if it would actually work as well as separate machines. I know Titan and Rogue also do combos, but no one seems to want to review them!

I bought their power bar and I love it!

Another great episode!

I can vouch for the hole tolerances being slightly larger than stated. I have around 500 lbs of these and they all wobble more on my bare naked power bar vs my e1 training plates from luxianojun. When I got mine right when they launched months ago I told customer service and sent them a video of the excessive wobble. They offered to replace them for mE at no charge and said they would be contacting their manufacturer to have this issue solved asap. I personally don't care but this is the Main reason why I love BoS is their CS is amazing and I've never had a issue from them. Can't say the same from the other more known and larger companies.

Do you know if their FID v3 bench is any good? The price is right but wasn't sure if I should hold out for something else

I agree not a fan of the light grey color but to each their own. Do like the acsent of color on the lettering and denominations.

Hey Brandon, how which would you say is a better option: buying machined plates and getting more weight or buying calibrated plates but just enough for what you need? Thank you!

Good review, I was interested in these plates. Also interested in the Reddstrong plates they are made in the USA and they advertised at 1% of stated weight. They are not that expensive. What's your opinion of Reddstrong? Thanks Brandon

Right before the pandemic started I actually picked up york deep dish plates for $1.4/lb included tax and if I hadn’t gotten them I would’ve gotten these. I’m very happy with my york plated though, they look and feel good.

How do they feel when you curl in the squat rack!?💯🚀

Could you please review the Bells of Steel “Mighty Grip Olympic Weight Plates”? They claim +/- 3% weight tolerance. Not as accurate as the machined plates, but they’re no doubt easier to handle.

Lucky for me, Strength Co is local and only had to drive about 45 mins to avoid shipping prices!

Will you review the prime cable tower

Have you tried steel plates from watson and mirafit steel plates with chrome coat. Please do review them

Everyone's tastes are different, but I rather like their simple and clean unadorned design. It also looks like something that would hold up well in commercial gyms.

Nice of you to experiment on the 35s

Have you used the mighty grip plates from Bells of Steel?

Great video!

These are better looking than kabuki. The color is fine IMO, the rest of the gym is is usually black or darker colors. It is sort of a budget ivanko coloring.

I got the York Legacy plates, and they were definitely milled rough. Great starter set, but I definitely think they are a lower quality milled plate.

Bells of Steel is a company for MINIMALIST garage gym owners like me! Great review Brandon. I would have loved if they have made these plates in black colour, that might have taken off the irregularities/finish they have, atleast in the looks. #35lbsplateguy :-)

Maybe because the BoS is slightly thinner, the loose inner sleeve would be more prominent than Strength Co? If it were a lot wider, there would be less wiggle.

Good thing you did this after Coop got his UCONN delivery...or else he would have bought them out! Nice review BCD thanks!

Love knowing when plates are back in stock. I will get a power rack and plates one day. I just have to wait for my industry to stabilize. Also just commenting for the algorithm.

What bar you got there btother?

I have their squat rack and I love it. Sadly their weights aren’t free shipping here in Canada :/ they do have some very affordable bumpers though they just dropped and I’m tempted to buy them

I don’t know your budget but I have dreamed about having enough barbells and weights so I could multiple barbells loaded with my warm up sets and back off my sets. 135, 225, 315 etc si I wouldn’t have to bend over and change the plates between sets

Commenting purely to help boost the RU-vid algorithm :)

What are those plates with the 3 and 5 on them? 🤷🏻‍♂️🤔

Same delivered price for me as the Rogue non machined.

why did you get rid of your calibrated plate?...

I want to get rid of my bumper plates because I don’t enjoy lifting with them nearly as much as a set of iron plates that rattle around and are “loud”. Making the iron make noise gives me a pump.

200 bucks shipped for 45lb pairs is decent, but Rogue's deep dish plates are pretty comparable in price still (155+probably 50 or 60 shipping).

man, sucks that they don't ship to HI. i'm having a hell of a time finding plates. i'm currently hoping strength co does and if not i gotta hope i catch a rogue restock.

Biggins iron is a company I would like to see on this channel

Nice but I agree , the color/finish could be better.

Comment for the algorithm: I have some BoS stuff and can't complain.

I didnt even know these were machined because of the crummy hammer grey powder coat not a big fan of loose holes.

They look like CAD renders before the color loads

Ever thing they do is top stuff plus I could drive there in a few hours

I want a set of machined plates. I have a 255 lb set of cast iron and a 255 lb set of rubber coated cast iron but I want some of the machined ones. But before I buy them I really need to buy a good power bar.

I dig em

Paint your plates white with black on the raised lettering. Forty fives black and yellow/red for death Vader with sith eyes

I wonder how common it is for somebody to take a scale inside of a store that sells weight so they can pick and choose and get accurate weights?

Those plates look so smooooooth.

yeah but what plates do I get if I literally cannot afford this

Even if it's budget with shipping included to my country it'll still cost 10× msrp

I thought you were reviewing concrete plates by the thumbnail...

This video was posted literally to the minute when I started unboxing my very first shipment of bells of steel machined plates. That is too freaky. Super freaky. What are the odds, considering I had these in my cart for weeks before ordering!?

Gotta love Bells of Steel.

I really regret not getting that shirt (am I just hanging around to scope out your shirts these days? 😂)

I FUCK WITH THAT SHIRT HEAVY BRANDON

I'm sure they are great plates functionality wise, but they are very plain. One solid color? They could've done black text

LOLL I have the exact same scale. Too bad we can't calibrate it because we don't have a 5klb calibration weight lollll.

300# set from Dicks for 299.99, works just fine 🙂

WTF? I do believe there was a caption that said “likes 35’s”. Brandon trolling the lifting community again without even trying because HE ACTUALLY LIKES 35s. Lol

The biggest selling point for gym equipment for me, is how well it matches your home gym. Hard pass on these as a result, unfortunately.

35’s 👍🏻

Aren't we lucky for having multiple suns? For it would be terribly cold if we only had one.

Those plates aren't pretty, but when it comes to lifting weights, pretty doesn't matter. Their purpose as hunks of metal is to serve as something to help apply pressure to your muscles and they do that well. Look at Metroflex Arlington that Ronnie Coleman worked out of. There's nothing pretty about that place or the equipment in there, but the guys that work out there are huge.

These just do not move me. Don’t like the look as you mentioned it falls flat. Definitely a great plate and deal if that kind of thing does not matter to you.

Hi

Look like they’d make good prison yard equipment.

They are ugly but get the job done. I got 675 pounds of these and they are all accurate. Very tight fitting and hard to load sometimes. Affordable calibrated plates are way back ordered in Canada so I just got these instead. Basically the same thing.

Loose plates make for some nice lifting ASMR though! So you'll let Vietnamese plates hang out in your basement but you won't let a Vietnamese man hang out in your basement? I know my weight tolerances aren't as tight but come on man.

Only 6 plates a side? Come on B you're falling behind Coop who we all know is a 1000 lb deadlifter.

A set of 245lbs is $574 that’s no wear near cheap

They look like titan plates

Got me some Biggins Iron.

Algorithm is what I do

💪😎👍

Wow I’ve literally never been here this early. I don’t know what to do now, didnt think I’d get this far.

Second 🥲

I would've already bought some of these plates if it weren't for that ugly finish.

Man, those are an ugly and bland looking plate. It’s not just the color, it’s the font size and spacing, it looks home made. Clearly someone with zero design background did the text layout. I know looks are individual, and maybe someone out there likes these, but imo these are the worst plate i have seen.

I own about 500lbs of this set and love them to death

Those aren't cheap LoL 🤣

If only they didn’t use the ugliest color ever🤢🥴