so I recently published my very first cabochon on my 8 inch cab King machine and the whole
process took me about two to two and a half hours and in a matter of seconds when letting
one of my Offspring look at it it was broken which was perfectly fine because we can fix
it and that's what we're going to be doing today we're going to be fixing our piece of
Gary green Jasper and turning it into a shield shaped cabochon so it broken kind of the best
spot I would say we are just going to take this side down a little bit and bring this
side down to match it and then bring it in and fix it up and since the last time we made
this we've got some upgrades to our cab King here we have upgraded our wheels from resin
Wheels to what are on there now which are res wheels and we have a new formation as
well we now have 220 280 600 1200 38 000 so I'm excited to use this 8 000 grit res wheel
for the very first time but when putting on those new res wheels in the new formation
I did come up with a bit of a snake and when I would turn the cab King on and try to test
the water system I will wasn't getting enough water on my 280 grit wheel this guy right
here and inside the hood are the water sprayers it looks like this guy right here
and on these two right here I wasn't getting as much water as what I was used to but I
kind of figured it out is that the pump when it pumps the water through the tubes and everything
these two are the farthest away from the pump so they don't get as much water but the old
setup used to have two of these diamond plated wheels on there and the water disperses a
lot easier on these wheels compared to the res wheels so I have figured out a way to
get enough water on our Wheels to not get dry spots on the wheels and dry spots on the
stones and I'm pretty excited about it I have taken this water attachment that used to be
on my flat lap and attached it to the side of the tray for my cap King and I will plug
it in and turn it on and it will spray onto here and I'll get enough water if I need to
I can adjust it over to this one or I can adjust it back but either way now we have
enough water we're not going to get any dry spots and I feel a lot more comfortable moving
through a full polishing process which these two steps are the most crucial this is where
you start so I'm really happy to have kind of uh troubleshot the issue and like I said
normally with a normal setup there's no issue because the water disperses perfectly fine
on these wheels it's just a little different with these res wheels so I'm glad I figured
that out and with all that being said let me get this hooked up back up above my 220
grit wheel I'll get my apron on and we'll get started on our cabochon
so we're gonna start off on the 220 grit we're going to start shaping this bring both of
these down and probably going to spend I don't know I'd say probably four or five minutes
on this just shaping it the right way let's get started [Music]
[Music] so one of the things that's really hard here is getting both of these sides to
be the same length and I think I just need to bring this side down a little bit and then
we should be fine it's looking pretty good so far
alrighty we're worked at a few more minutes and it looks like we got a pretty good here
and it looks pretty even so we'll be able to move on to the 280 grit res wheel for the
very first time so let's get the water going on that I'll get this guy set up as well and
we'll get uh we'll start the whole polishing process we'll start whipping through these
res Wheels
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so now that we're on to the 1200 grit res wheel I've decided to go over every surface
of this cabochon being that these are new res Wheels we should be able to give it a
much better polish when we're all said and done [Music]
so we have got our cabochon through the pink 3000 grit res wheel and it's looking pretty
good those spots right there that is just natural pitting and I wouldn't even call it
fracturing it's just a natural part of the stone just a little void is what it is but
it's looking really good and we're gonna now move on to the white 8000 grit resin wheel
for the first time really excited to see it make a huge difference in this Stone so let's
get the water going on there
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so while I let my wheels come to a full stop I just want to say I really enjoyed the feel
of these new res wheels for the very first time and if you guys are interested in upgrading
the wheels on your cabin machine you can head to the link in the description box for capking
and use code a good dad save you 10 off but I got this all dried off and they're about
done so let's check out our finished cabochon so here is our finished Shield cabochon you
can see the light is playing on that really really well and I don't think that these are
the exact same length but as you look at it it looks pretty close so as far as it being
freehand free form Shield shape I think it's pretty good and I'm really happy with how
again how these res Wheels worked on this thing we didn't finish it off with the 14
000 or 50 000 grit paste I'll have to play with those a little bit to see if it makes
that big of a difference but that 8 000 grit res wheel I think that's a very good addition
to our piece here and again I didn't do anything to the back I just left it as is but really
happy with how this turned out so this repair on that cabochon took about 35 45 minutes
wasn't too bad a lot quicker than the last time and now that it's all finished said and
done and I'm very happy with how it turned out I've taken the cabochon and put it in
a much safer place so hopefully it doesn't break again and we don't have another repairing
the Gary green Jasper cabochon video in the future so thank you all so much for watching
and we'll see you next time bye
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thank you [Music]