in this lapidary video we're gonna be polishing this mary ellen jasper it's a stromatolite an
ancient algae so it makes this a fossil and if you watch until the end of the video i have a
special surprise for you so what we're going to be doing with this is turning it into a display
piece this bottom is going to stay the same and we're going to take this flat face and round
it up to kind of mirror the back here so it's going to come up and meet up here with a rounded
beautiful polish and we're going to be doing it on our camber 6 cabbing machine
let me get the pump plugged in we'll get the water going let's start shaping this piece
alrighty alrighty so here's our piece that took a little bit longer than i expected on the 220 grit
but this is flawless let me show you and i want it to be flawless for one big reason watch till
the end oh it is looking absolutely so beautiful look at the details in that mary ellen jasper
gosh that is fantastic that took about i'd say 10 15 minutes to work it down it had a huge fracture
that was running through here luckily we were able to work it out so i'm going to move on
to the 280 grit softback we'll get the water going let's start uh making this thing shine
so so far here's our free form
mary ellen jasper display piece we've gone through the 280 grit wheel
we're about to move on to the 600 just wanted to show you a little bit how it looks so far
i'm pretty happy with it so far i really love the shape sits very nice
really really excited so turn the water on for the 600
turn the camber 6 back on let me back up with you after we get through the 1200 grit
so
we have made it through the uh the gray 1200 grit wheel we still have the pink 3000 and the final
cerium oxide disc i'm really loving how this is looking so far the details are really beautiful
in it and uh i'm really excited to share with you the big surprise here at the end and um this
is actually my first piece of mary ellen jasper that i'm polishing without using my tumbler and
i'm pretty excited with like i said how it's looking so far so let me show you this and
then we'll move on to the last final steps so here is our piece after the 1200 grit and like i said
loving the shape still loving how it sits for a good display piece and i said the only thing that
i didn't foresee with mary ellen jasper which i guess i should have is the amount of
micro fractures that are kind of littered throughout this thing
it just kind of is what it is with this stuff because i guess the age of it you
know it's estimated to be billions and billions of years old and i mean what do you expect but
the details of this are really really amazing i do hope that the 3000 grit gives us more of
a polish and makes those harder to see but we'll just see but either way i'm really happy with how
this is turning out let me get the water going here turn it back on let's wrap this thing up
so
here we have our polished mary ellen jasper the polish took extremely well
really really beautiful but the piece has these fractures all over in it it's a little different
than lakes superior agates like i'm used to has these huge fractures that run through it this
is just kind of almost seem like little stress fractures and like i said this is a very old piece
billions of years old people say and i mean what do you expect you know from something this old
that's been around for so long but either way i think it's a really beautiful piece it's got these
beautiful red the almost like metallic silver going on in there it's really cool yellow piece
down here i really really love how this looks and uh which kind of leads me into the surprise which
really isn't a surprise at all it's more of a way for me to say thank you to all of you for being so
amazing i want to give this piece of mary ellen jasper away to one of you lucky folks all you
got to do is leave a comment and if you can if you haven't done so please hit that subscribe button
this is really for the subscribers to say thank you for all the amazing support that you've given
me in this channel the whole way through this whole thing it's been really fun and you guys
have made the community here amazing you guys are the absolute best and i know this piece has some
fractures running through it so what i'm gonna do is throw some extra pieces in there as well
i'll throw some like superior agates in as well as some agatized coral some red oolitic jasper
uh just to say thank you to one of you lucky folks i'm gonna put all the give way details in the
description box below like i said leave a comment be a subscriber i'm gonna post the give way winner
on my community tab on my channel homepage i'll put it up right here just so it's not so confusing
you guys can check back here to look for updates it'll be in less than a week from right now all
the details will be in the description box below but thank you guys so much for everything thanks
for making it through the video i've got to this point and good luck on the give way bye