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<blockquote data-quote="Pat Hogen" data-source="post: 481871" data-attributes="member: 11720"><p>I used to use a trim saw / 2 wheel machine with rough and fine sanding paper to carve jade and agate also using a foredom hand-piece for fine cutting, grinding and polishing the fiddlier parts and the whole lot worked fine for me at that time. </p><p></p><p>I was told by a jade miner to get the finest sanding paper for my final polishing, cut it into rounds to fit the wheel, rub two of the fine rounds together to get a smoother paper and get the stone as hot as possible to create a final, glossy finish polish. As I said, it worked fine for me in the day, but today I would finish with 50k diamond powder and possibly a spritz of 100k diamond spray on a ceramic/perspex wheel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pat Hogen, post: 481871, member: 11720"] I used to use a trim saw / 2 wheel machine with rough and fine sanding paper to carve jade and agate also using a foredom hand-piece for fine cutting, grinding and polishing the fiddlier parts and the whole lot worked fine for me at that time. I was told by a jade miner to get the finest sanding paper for my final polishing, cut it into rounds to fit the wheel, rub two of the fine rounds together to get a smoother paper and get the stone as hot as possible to create a final, glossy finish polish. As I said, it worked fine for me in the day, but today I would finish with 50k diamond powder and possibly a spritz of 100k diamond spray on a ceramic/perspex wheel. [/QUOTE]
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