Le Master Deep dish barbell plates

Name: Le Master Deep dish barbell plates
Brand: Le Master Barbell Company
Rating: 4.72 (6 reviews)

Le Master Barbell’s Deep Dish Barbell Plates revive the classic 1970s-80s vintage plate look: a recessed center that leaves a wide outer lip, cast by hand from 90%+ recycled steel and finished in a matte black powder coat with a distinctive 3D bodybuilder emblem. Unlike most modern deep dish lines that taper off at the mid weights, Le Master carries the true deep dish profile all the way down to the 2.5 lb change plates. Plates are machined to a tight +/-2% weight tolerance and produced at a carbon-neutral foundry in Northern California. The recessed center gives a wider grip surface for loading and unloading, and the extra plate width reduces side-to-side wobble on the bar, but the lineup skips a 35 lb size and gets notably pricier per pound at the low end of the weight range.

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Finish	Matte black powder coat
Material	Cast from 90%+ post-consumer, post-military recycled steel
Manufacturing	Northern California, carbon-neutral foundry
Weight options	2.5, 5, 10, 25, 45 lb (sold in pairs; no 35 lb size)
Weight tolerance	+/-2%
Diameter (45 lb plate)	17.72 in (450 mm)
Thickness (45 lb plate)	1.95 in (49.5 mm)

What is a Weight Plate?

What weight plates are

Weight plates load your barbell — but “plate” covers two very different tools. Bumper plates are rubber discs around a steel hub, all the same ~450mm diameter, built to be dropped from overhead without damaging your floor or bar; they’re the default for Olympic lifting and CrossFit. Iron/steel plates are denser and thinner per pound, cheaper, and quieter to load, but most aren’t made to be dropped — better for slow, controlled powerlifting-style work.

What actually matters

Bumper vs. iron. Buy bumpers if the bar might hit the floor; iron (or rubber-coated iron) for controlled lifts and compact loading.
Weight tolerance. How far a plate strays from its stated weight (±1% is tight, ±3% loose). It barely matters for general training but adds up if you chase a specific total — which is why serious lifters add small change / fractional plates.
Collar fit & bounce. The center hole should fit your bar’s sleeve snugly; rubber durometer (around 88 Shore A) controls how “dead” a dropped plate lands.
Coating & set composition. Virgin rubber holds up and smells less than recycled crumb rubber; plan a starting set (usually a pair each of 45/25/10/5 lb plus change plates) around the lifts you actually do.

Who it’s for

Every barbell gym needs plates. Most home lifters should start with a bumper set, then add iron, change, or specialty plates as a second purchase once they know what their training is missing.

How it compares

	Le Master Deep dish barbell plates	6-Shooter Olympic Grip Plates	Schisler Eagle Head Vintage Weight Plates	International Vintage Weight Plates
GymRadar rating	4.72/5	4.71/5	4.73/5	4.7/5
Price	$231.00	$207.00
Finish	Matte black powder coat
Material	Cast from 90%+ post-consumer, post-military recycled steel		Cast iron
Manufacturing	Northern California, carbon-neutral foundry
Weight options	2.5, 5, 10, 25, 45 lb (sold in pairs; no 35 lb size)
Weight tolerance	+/-2%
Diameter (45 lb plate)	17.72 in (450 mm)
Thickness (45 lb plate)	1.95 in (49.5 mm)

4.7/5 · 6 GymRadar reviews

Reviews by source

Expert	4.72/5	6 reviews
Youtube	4.4/5	2 reviews

Le Master’s deep dish plates land as an accurate, well-finished vintage-style plate that both independent reviewers and owners rate highly on build: GymRadar’s owners average 4.72/5 with build quality the standout at 4.83/5, and ShreddedDad’s review clocks weight accuracy and finish at 4.6/5 apiece. Two YouTube owners who also own Rogue’s deep dish plates call the quality comparable at a similar price point. The weakest spot is value at the extremes of the lineup – GymRadar owners rate value lowest of its three sub-dimensions (4.33/5), per-pound pricing gets steep on the small change plates, and one owner noted the paint reads as less durable than other deep dish plates in side-by-side use.

+Functionality: weighed within a tenth of a pound of a true 45 lbs on both plates tested (Jacked Ginger, YouTube)
+Build quality: cast from recycled steel with a matte black powder coat and +/-2% tolerance; GymRadar owners rate build quality 4.83/5 (manufacturer page; GymRadar)
+Functionality: recessed center gives a wider grip surface for safer loading/unloading and less bar wobble (ShreddedDad)
+Versatility: deep dish design carries all the way down the line to the 2.5 lb change plates, not just the 45s (manufacturer page)

−Value: per-pound pricing gets steep on the small plates -- a pair of 2.5 lb change plates runs about $48 -- and GymRadar owners rate value lowest of its subscores at 4.33/5 (manufacturer page; GymRadar)
−Durability: paint/finish reads as less durable than other deep dish plates in side-by-side comparison, though chipping is mostly cosmetic on gym-use plates (Massenomics, YouTube)
−Versatility: no 35 lb plate in the lineup, so hitting round numbers like 205 lbs requires stacking smaller plates (Jacked Ginger, YouTube)

$231.00

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