hey everybody today I'm going to be polishing a Lake Superior Agate on my 8 inch cabking
unit it has been a while since I polished an LSA so I'm pretty excited for this one
so let me turn the camera on and show you what I'm going to be doing to the stone so
this is actually an agate that I got from Daniel and I cut it for him and when I cut
it this piece broke off right here because like Superior agates are full of all these
awesome natural fractures so I'm gonna be grinding down right here and right here and
giving it a little bit of a rounded face right here it's gonna be it's gonna be kind of interesting
but as you can see there are so many beautiful bands in this I think it's going to turn out
amazing so let's get our cabKing unit fired up and start shaping this face [Music] thank
you
[Music] so we got that through the 220 grit and it's going to look pretty rough right
now it's going to start looking great after the next stage the 280 soft back wheel this
is still kind of a little wet it dries out if it's going to look kind of cruddy it's
the nature of the Beast loving the shape of this thing though and look at those bands
this is absolutely beautiful so now what I'm gonna do is get onto that 280 grit wheel and
start getting rid of all those scratches all those flat spots and start getting this one
step closer to a beautiful polished specimen let's get going [Music] all right so we did
the first pass over everything with the 280 grit res wheel I went to inspect it and I
found a few flaws we got one right there right there you can see this there's a little itty
bitty kind of a divot right there and then some other you know scratches from the previous
stage we could maybe work that out a little more if I work it harder on the 280 which
is what I'm gonna try to do before I step back but right down here this area is kind
of iffy it's pretty cool but right here we got a concoidal fracture that happened during
the Polish so I am going to have to step back right there and try to flatten that piece
out it looks like this little piece right here too that's probably going to flake off
so I'm just going to step back to the 220 grit wheel for just a second touch those little
places up and then we'll hop back on the 280 Grit [Music]
so I did have to step back to the 220 grit wheel for just a second then I got back on
the 280 grid and after 20 minutes our stone is looking really good I think it's ready
for the 600 grit wheel but there are a couple areas that I am watching that have potential
of fracturing it's right around the edges here let me show you so right here above my
finger is a little area that I'm kind of worried about just because it's right on the end it's
kind of thin I don't think we're gonna have issues but you just never know but right down
in here being that there's already that concoidal fracture here I just worry that another fracture
might occur down here so I've got a few areas that I'm watching looks like there's a couple
fractures right in here as well so I think if we can get through the 600 grit wheel we'll
be in the clear it has the natural fractures we just by the time we ground those out there's
we're going to have a much different looking Stone and I think it'll end up looking great
as is with those natural fractures in there but let's move on to the 600 grit wheel and
we'll see after that [Music] shoes [Music] foreign
[Music] so 600 grit is complete looks really great it has natural fractures in it Lake
Superior agates have been through a lot so it is what it is but got all those manageable
fractures out and I'm super happy with this so now we get to move on to the right side
of the camp King my favorite side because it's the side we can just Breeze through put
a beautiful polish on this I'll show you what it looks like here after 600 but then we're
gonna move on hey [Music]
so after the 1200 Grit it is looking really good you can see the light's starting to really
play on there but my water supply that brings water two on my wheels it's getting a little
low so I'm going to fill that up real quick
all righty we should be good to get back on a 1200 now that we filled our bucket up I
usually only have to do that like one time every polishing process so we'll get this
fired back up hit the 1200 three thousand and eight thousand
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with the face polish on that beautiful Lake Superior agate and before I show you I just
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let me turn this around and we'll show you that beautiful beautiful agate I suppose I
didn't show you the exterior of it at all this is the husk it's got that beautiful pitting
potato skin Limonite staining iron staining this thing is awesome and you can see besides
my finger smudge right there the beautiful play of the light on that polished face those
bands though look at that that is so great it's got that funky rounded face but we did
pretty good work from where we started with that fractured end here and I don't know if
you'll be able to see it you can kind of see it right up in there it has some Parallax
banding Shadow banding going on it's got a little bit right down in here as well and
kind of see it right there
yeah this Lake Superior agate is an absolute Beauty it was fun polishing it I'm glad it
turned out great again this is Daniel Zagat I cut it for him and because I got that funky
fracture in there I decided to polish it for him and happy to do it because this was fun
very very fun well that pretty much wraps up this Stone story it had a pretty interesting
one from being cut fractured shaped and Polished and it looks so good in my opinion I really
hope Daniel enjoys it and I hope you all enjoyed this video If You did leave a thumbs up leave
a comment let me know what you thought and we'll see you next time bye
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thank you