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    Best faceting prepolish lap

    Thanks rough2cut, have bought 8000 grit for prepolish and 100000 for polish, will be giving that a go soon.
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    Fine scratches

    Hi Fossickeract, Nice work, stone looks great. Thanks for the info, I will try 8,000 diamond grit on copper lap and 100,000 grit on tin, hopefully that will fix my problem.
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    GPZ7000 for sale NSW

    is this for sale still
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    Fine scratches

    thanks sneakycuttlefish, great advice, I would say the 100,000 is the way to go, and also thanks lefty for the great advice lefty, my husbands father Alf used to own claims at Russian gully, they actually found a 136 ct golden yellow, wich cut to a 35 ct flawless stone golden yellow, sold to...
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    Best faceting prepolish lap

    Hi rough2cut, we cut sapphire from our mine in the gemfeilds, do you recommend 8000 on a copper lap, and 100,000 on a tin lap, at the moment having a few problems getting supoer fine scratches in the final polish, the are very hard to see, need to keep turning the stone to catch the sratches in...
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    Fine scratches

    Thanks for the welcome silver, and thanks mr magoo, will try inox as they are only super fine sratches you have to find in the right light, reversing the lap has been helping also, yes we do sell rough stone
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    Fine scratches

    Hi everybody my name is donna, my husband and i have sapphire mines out at the gemfeilds, where we dig our stone, and now for the past 12 months I have been faceting sapphire on a GF5 wich we bought, I have been getting fairly good results, but my question is, on the final polish I sometimes...
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