can you believe that gemstones like this actually exist this amazing stone is called iolite
it's from Australia it was sent to me as a gift from Dan so thank you Dan and we're going
to be polishing it in this video on my 8-inch cab King unit and this stone is very special
because it has a plea acroic quality to it and the term plea acrylic means that when
light hits these stones at different angles the color of the stone changes and that is
seriously so cool this is one of the only stones that I have that does this it's the
only ili to my collection and as you can see he's already started the polishing process
so we're just going to follow in his footsteps we're going to start on the 600 grit wheel
so let's head over to the cabKing and get started [Music] foreign
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with this piece I realized I had a bit of a brain this right here comes in I thought
it was more straight I should have looked at it more closely and I didn't and I'm not
able to polish inside that my wheel just doesn't get in there so what I'm gonna have to do
is back up two stages so right here we're going to reshape this and then work our way
through every single wheel so I was hoping I could save some time with this but we're
gonna have to back up no idea what shape I'm gonna do because I'm now just realizing that
that's what I'm going to be doing so uh I'll just kind of wing it here and yeah we'll pick
a good shape [Music]
I think we got a really good shape I I went pretty basic I went with kind of a fat oval
I think it's gonna be I think it's gonna be good I've never done one this fat I've done
more longer ovals so I'm excited about this we're gonna move on to the black soft back
res wheel and get caught up to where we were and as we do we're gonna round this top a
lot because it's pretty flat right now it'll be hard to give it a good polish but this
Stone we only worked that for probably about three four minutes so let's uh hop back on
turn it on get the water flowing and get rolling
[Music] we got it through the 220 grit that's the very first wheel we got it through the
280 grit black soft back res wheel and I'm feeling pretty happy with where it's at we
got a nice OVO we got some work to do it's got some flat spots it's looking really good
I'm really happy with how it's looking so far we're gonna move on to the 600 grit and
we'll get cooking from there
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we have got through the 600 grit wheel and this is looking really great it still has
I'd say very very light flat spots in it and we're still working on rounding the top but
I'm actually pretty happy with it I think running through the next two stages the 1200
and 3000 it's really going to help around that we'll finish it up with Perfection on
the 8000 grit but let me show you where we're at right now with the 600 grit and what that
looks like before we move on to the 1200 and why I'm happy with it and able to move on
so not every stone is going to end up being the same like you can see kind of in here
there's some flat spots with this area right here this stone is looking good the top is
good getting around it I didn't think we'd get there but it went it went there and you
can see it here you can still see this is wet from my finger I think or no is that well
that's a it's a weird looking spot there's a couple of really weird spots this is a funky
Stone I'll tell you what either way though oh look at that man that's weird right here
is what I'm talking about see that
it disappears it looks wow this thing is nuts anyway squirreling off over here this is where
I'm happy with moving on it still has these bite marks in it from the 600 grit wheel We're
Gonna Knock those out into 1200 and there's going to be less scratches and then so on
and so forth so let's hop over to the right side of the wheel my favorite side make this
thing look uh get it to that mirror-like state [Music] foreign [Music]
[Music] the 1200 grit wheel took a little longer than expected but we're trying to do
our best at this so I guess it just takes the time that it needs but it's looking pretty
good it's got a very subtle rounded top and man I gotta say because of the uh man I already
forgot I forgot that word that describes the changing colors I'll just put it right here
that word because of that you can see how it changes as you rotate it it's actually
really hard to polish because you think you missed a spot and then you're uh kind of just
working and it's like did I get it or is it good oh that's a fun one so I think we're
good now and uh we're gonna move on to the pink three thousand grit wheel so that pink
3000 grit wheel that we're about to start on is usually for most people the very last
wheel that they're polishing on before they move on to Diamond paste and pads and everything
but because we have the 8000 grit it uh it doesn't make an enormously huge difference
but I'm kind of testing it to see if it cuts out those polishing paste so what I'm gonna
do is I'm gonna burn through the 3000 and the 8000 and then we'll show you what it looks
like afterwards pretty excited that we're here these ones shouldn't take too long because
it's the last stages so I'm thinking probably only 10 to 20 more minutes so for you it's
not going to take that long it'll be probably less than 20 seconds [Music]
so those last two stages that three thousand and eight thousand great Wheels took just
about 20 minutes and our stone is looking perfect I'm so excited to show you before
we do I just want to say if you're interested in any of the equipment that I've used in
this video I'm going to have it all linked below and with the cab King unit if you use
code Agate Dad you can save 10 on accessories and if any of you have any questions at all
just leave a comment and ask be happy to answer your questions and help out in any way that
I can but let's check out this Stone I swear every time I touch this thing I get another
fingerprint in the face so I'm gonna try my best not to touch it so you can see the main
part here in its full glory and we're gonna change the angle here in a second so you can
see that beautiful color change but here you can see the lights playing on it we got a
great polish with it it has natural fractures in it and those other lines those are not
scratches that is just the Natural Way of the stone and let me just like I said change
the angle here and we'll show you that beautiful color change that happens with this highlight
all right so this is like the 10th lighting camera angle I have tried so I'm hoping that
this works we'll see
I think this is the one you can see the light playing on it see how it gets black
how it gets white
that is just so crazy
it's like I could look at that all day that's unbelievable
[Music] so cool cool beans awesome well thank you all so much for joining me on that very
fun lapidary Adventure thank you Dan for sending me that beautiful treasure if you all like
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button we'll see you next time bye [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you