hey what's up everybody in this video i'm gonna be making orbit eye stones out of red oolitic jasper
and this project is for this year's makers challenge put together by theo kellison
so thank you theo for including me again but anyways these are orbit eye stones
and what orbit eye stones are is a form of cold therapy for your eyes for tired eyes in between
working running all the social media platforms that i have rockhounding and lapidary my eyes
are tired all the time so i want to make some of my own out of red oolitic jasper i think they're
going to be really great let me show you a little bit about these what we're going to be doing
and then we'll find some jasper we'll go out and we'll cut some up and we'll start the whole
process of this whole project i'm really excited about this so again here is that orbit eye stone
there's two of them one for each eye we're going to be picking some of the red oolitic jasper that
i have cutting it into the right shape for the roundness and the same thickness once it's cut
into that shape we're going to drill a couple holes in it and as long as it doesn't fracture
and they're still intact then we're going to grind them into that circular shape again
and go from there start polishing using my dremel to bring the inner circle parts down and yeah i've
never done anything quite like this we got a lot of work to do so let's pick some jasper
here are our candidates for jasper i'm going to cut up a bunch of this stuff just to play it safe
this is a beach worn piece and this is what i found on the river this one because of the very
cool patterns i'm going to cut some chunks out of it this way and then if you look at this like that
it's got the right thickness a lot of wiggle room we're going to cut them this way couple
pieces that way so let's head out break out the saw and start cutting some of this jasper up
alrighty so we have my 10 inch saw filled up with water we have the two chunks of jasper that
we're gonna cut up and some safety glasses my lung protection the respirator here and
hearing protection we're gonna fire up the saw
and start cutting these down into sizes that are similar to this so let's fire it up
so these first pieces now that i got them cleaned and dried you can see how many fractures are
all over these pieces so i for this one i don't have the most hope for and then
same with these pieces there's fractures all over them this side it's not too bad but i just
worry that we go to cut them again and they're gonna break into more pieces i mean i might try
it's pretty small we might be able to get away with that one we'll at least try so i'll kind of
make some rough marks here very professional as you can see and then these guys right here these
look great i don't know if i'll be able to get more than two out of these we might we'll try
we'll try to get two out of this one all right let's cut these and see how that goes
all righty we got back inside drawn some officially rough circles on these these
are from the very rough and not promising piece i don't have a lot of hope for these
that one fractured right down the middle and you can see this one has a really bad one
but with a really nice piece of jasper we were able to get three well two good
chunks and one smaller one as a backup so let's start shaping these on my flat lap
and to start with my flat lap we're going to be using the 80 grit disc that i have pop it on here
because there's so much extra material right here this 80 grit will really be able to work it down
so we're gonna just go and grind away and do our best to try to make perfect circles here
with these pieces and this 80 grit here is really really powerful so this shouldn't take too long
that took forever i totally underestimated how long it would take
to grind down into circles and ovals very thick and hard pieces of jasper
but i'm happy with how they look so far so let me show you so here are the three what i would
say are the more quality pieces of jasper this is the smaller one the kind of the backup if either
of these fail in the processes but they turned out really really well so i'm pretty excited how
those ones turned out these ones again a lot of fractures looks good on this side
you can see right there fracture fracture really bad fracture right there so
i actually have a different plan for these ones
compared to these ones but it's really late for me that took an extremely long amount of time and i'm
exhausted so that is the end of day one of making our jasper orbit eye stones we'll see you tomorrow
so we are now on day two of the project and this phase of it is going to be a doozy
and the reason it's gonna be a doozy is because we're gonna be using my dremel
with some bits to drill some holes in these pieces right here these are our two main pieces
for our orbit stones we're going to be drilling holes right in the middle
through that thick of jasper which is a very hard mineral i have something else planned for
these two these are the unstable pieces with the fractures and during grinding this fractured off
that's okay though like i said i have other plans for these i will show you when we get there then
this is the backup in case one of these breaks but this is going to take a super long time i'm
counting on hours and hours of drilling to get through these with our dremel bits so i will
follow up with you when it's done and let you know how long this took in total but imma get started
well that was pretty fun that took me about hour and a half two hours to drill these holes
into a very rough shape right there so now that we're done with my dremel
for now we're gonna move on to my cabber six cabbing machine we're gonna start
at the 80 grit and work our way all the way through to the 3000 grit to turn this little
hockey puck with a hole in it into this nice rounded orbit eye and then we can move on
to the nice rounded center so let me fire up the cabbing machine and we'll get to shaping
so we have made it through the 80 and the 220 grit and our orbit eye stones are looking really
really good i'm super happy with how they're turning out so far and just remember these are
freehand circles kind of uh winging it so i'm really happy with how they're
turning out so far i'm going to be working pretty hard on the 280 grit
wheel next so that'll bring out all these nasty nasty flat spots that you see all over it
working a lot of that out again we're going to be coming back and bringing this down
in both of these bringing the centers down a little bit help us lose a little bit of weight
but pretty excited so we'll move on to the 280 grit wheel
so
so we've gotten through the 280 grit and the 600 grit and here we are and i have them right here
and i wanted to show you something here they are after the 600 grit i have a little scale
right there one of the things that i'm tracking is that they are even weight first one 3.1 ounces
second one 3.2 ounces
i spent a ton of time bringing this side down and as you can see the difference
we're going to bring this down even further later on
and i think that will make up that difference we have the 1200 grit the 3000 grit left
and then work on these center pieces but that's the end of day two on the makers challenge project
we'll see on day three well it is day three of the makers challenge project and i've taken a bit of a
break for a few days because the last time i was working on it afterwards my thumb has been numb
bit of a numb thumb conundrum and uh it's kind of dumb but uh from pushing on it so hard my whole
thumb the pad of it has just been kind of tingly and numb so uh but we're gonna be working it a
lot harder so i'm sure still have my num thumb conundrum after this so yeah i uh i think i've
been reading too many dr seuss books but anyways i'm gonna head back on the caber 6 cabber machine
we'll keep working these little donuts so we left off on the 600 grit wheel and we're
gonna move on to the 1200 i am excited because these last two stages are gonna go pretty quick
all righty we got through that 3000 grit and got my bucket of water got the dremel back
out got my bits ready we're gonna be doing some more touch-up
work to these orbit eye stones working these centers so let me pop my bit on to my dremel
i'm gonna clear out the holes a little bit start doing some fun touch-ups to these eye stones
so with this bit right here i'm going to run through the hole one more time on both
of these to kind of clean that up and give it a more smooth look all the way through
made it through this bit right here at our little holes taken care of and we're
gonna be moving on to this guy right here start smoothing it out a little bit this is a 600 grit
bit but i'm gonna start smoothing these out as well
so we've burned through another hour on this project and we've brought the centers of our
orbit i stones down and they are now both the exact same weight they're 3.1 ounces
so excited we get to move on to the final stage which is with this bit right here for my dremel
that attaches these little wet sandpaper pads to them they go from 80 grit all the way up to 10
000 grit so i'll pop these on the dremel we can start wrapping this up i'm so excited so here's
that bit pop that on and we are gonna start with 150 grit pads and there is let's see one
two three four five six seven eight nine pads that i'm going to work through to get us up to
that 10 oh my gosh this little bag this is ridiculous what's going on i'm being punked
oh my gosh okay nine 10 stages to get us up to the 10 000 grit pads i have never used these pads
fully through a project before so this will be the first time we use these
and we're just going to take the pads and run it through that part right there
so we're going to make it look good with this hopefully it works let's get started with that
too much holy cannoli
so 10 minutes with this bit on my dremel
looks like this in one minute using my cabbing machine on the corner of the wheel like this
looks like that so all of these stages right here that we were gonna use with that dremel bit we're
not gonna use it's gonna take way too long luckily we have these soft back discs we can use that
and we're going to burn through these so we can wrap these up so close so close
i am happy to say that we are finally done with our orbit eyes stones finally done
finally so i just got to clean up all the stuff that's back here on my bench
and everything we'll head up i want to weigh them one more time for you guys and then we'll
put them to use so we got our scale we got our red oolitic jasper orbit eye stones i think these
turned out pretty good i like the color a lot love that that right in there that's really cool
so let's weigh them one last time see how close we got
3.1 ounces for the first one
3.1 ounces for the second i know they're not perfect in every which way but at least they're
the same weight so what i'm gonna do now is put them in the fridge and we can try them out
and as far as these i know you all are wondering what i have planned for them
just kidding just kidding we're not going to waste this i'm going to put it in my tub
of things to be cut or tumbled because i'm never making orbit eye stones again
that's pretty cold
whoa
there we go oh yeah so i know these may look ridiculous but it actually feels really good on
my eyes and i'm gonna be using these a lot in the future i had a lot of fun working on this project
i hope you guys enjoyed this video i put a ton of work into it if you could do me a huge favor hit
that like button leave a comment let me know what you thought and thank you so much for watching
oh yeah i can't keep them on
i can't do this no i don't well that feels great
and i had a lot of fun working on this project and i'm actually going to use these a lot
so far as ridiculous as this i hope you all enjoyed this video