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⭐ Gemstone & Mineral Show n Tell
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<blockquote data-quote="Dihusky" data-source="post: 632075" data-attributes="member: 10304"><p>Great start Badge. :Y: Taking a stone to pre-polish is relatively straight forward, but after that the real challenges start. You will discover there are more opinions on polishing techniques, 'polishing soups' and other mystic equations to polishing than there are Facetors. Don't get me started on the mythical variety of polishing laps, that's a whole different story :awful: To put it simply polishing is the true art and to achieve a flawless polish takes a lot of practice and you may go grey in the process.</p><p></p><p>That said, the target is to develop a system for quartz and softer stones and one for harder stones. Personally, I use 50k diamond for everything and mainly two different laps, though I do occasionally experiment. There is one lap I haven't used and that's Horst's special alloy CAT Lap, many facetors speak highly of this so it's on my try list.</p><p></p><p>On with the good work mate. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dihusky, post: 632075, member: 10304"] Great start Badge. :Y: Taking a stone to pre-polish is relatively straight forward, but after that the real challenges start. You will discover there are more opinions on polishing techniques, 'polishing soups' and other mystic equations to polishing than there are Facetors. Don't get me started on the mythical variety of polishing laps, that's a whole different story :awful: To put it simply polishing is the true art and to achieve a flawless polish takes a lot of practice and you may go grey in the process. That said, the target is to develop a system for quartz and softer stones and one for harder stones. Personally, I use 50k diamond for everything and mainly two different laps, though I do occasionally experiment. There is one lap I haven't used and that's Horst's special alloy CAT Lap, many facetors speak highly of this so it's on my try list. On with the good work mate. :) [/QUOTE]
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