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Lapidary
Stones I have cut
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<blockquote data-quote="Lefty" data-source="post: 425526" data-attributes="member: 2976"><p>Cheers mate :Y: </p><p></p><p>Yep, well spotted - I deliberately omitted them on this stone. There was an issue with transfer and I had to build the crown slowly by eye. That final tier of tiny facets has half of them meeting and half of them floating, getting them all dead even would have been fiddly because of the combination of that and the earlier issue. The stone has to be pretty big for such tiny facets to make much of a difference.</p><p></p><p>The outer tier actually is frosted though it's a bit hard to see in the photo. I used a sintered 1200 for them. I tried a heavier lap first but while the frosting was more pronounced, the heavy one also left visible scratches so I went for the finer grit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lefty, post: 425526, member: 2976"] Cheers mate :Y: Yep, well spotted - I deliberately omitted them on this stone. There was an issue with transfer and I had to build the crown slowly by eye. That final tier of tiny facets has half of them meeting and half of them floating, getting them all dead even would have been fiddly because of the combination of that and the earlier issue. The stone has to be pretty big for such tiny facets to make much of a difference. The outer tier actually is frosted though it's a bit hard to see in the photo. I used a sintered 1200 for them. I tried a heavier lap first but while the frosting was more pronounced, the heavy one also left visible scratches so I went for the finer grit. [/QUOTE]
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