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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
Lapidary
Fine scratches
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<blockquote data-quote="yellowsapphire" data-source="post: 343430" data-attributes="member: 10416"><p>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 find it difficult to remove the super fine scratches on the sapphire, they are hard to see, you have to keep looking to find the right light to see the scratches, I am using a copper lap with 3000 diamond grit, for the prepolish, and a tin lap using 50,000 diamond grit, for the final polish</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yellowsapphire, post: 343430, member: 10416"] 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 find it difficult to remove the super fine scratches on the sapphire, they are hard to see, you have to keep looking to find the right light to see the scratches, I am using a copper lap with 3000 diamond grit, for the prepolish, and a tin lap using 50,000 diamond grit, for the final polish [/QUOTE]
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