today I'm going to be making a cabochon from a stone that I found right here in Minnesota it
is an unbelievably beautiful material it's one of my favorites it's this guy right here it's
oolitic Iron Stone Jasper and when you take a very close look at it which we will be it will
blow your mind so before we hop on my 8 inch cab King unit let's take a close look at this
because it is just so amazing so here is the Rough Side of our oolitic Iron Stone Jasper
and here is the cut side that we're going to be taking to the wheels shaping into kind of
a funky shaped cabochon and one I've never tried the shape before so let me hop on our
first wheel and get to shaping and then I'll kind of explain to you what I'm talking about [Music]
all right so we have a rough shape for our cabochon here and as you can see it's kind
of rounded at the top round it at the bottom and round it this way and that way it's going
to be kind of funky so now I gotta round this top right here to give it a dome top and this
will be our flat bottom so I'm gonna hop back on the 220 grit wheel for more shaping [Music]
so I've made a little bit of an audible with our cabochon we're originally doing a bit
of a rectangle shape that was twisted and that was extremely hard so I just took the
roundness off of it so this is kind of the pattern right here and it's straight lines
and it looks really great let me move this a little bit and I'll show you how it's looking
and we have a lot more work to do I'm loving it so far it's looking great and we get to move on
to the next wheel but let me show it to you first as you can see I have these straight
lines like I mentioned took the roundness out it was just gonna be too difficult I think this is
looking great you can see the beautiful white coming in over here it's a little
darker over here so what I need to do now is a lot of flat spots as you can see all over this
so I'm going to take this over to the black 280 grit res wheel and start rounding it out
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so we've made it through the 280 grit soft back res wheel that's the black wheel and I'm really
loving the shape that it has right here it's slowly drying off here so you can see it how
it looks after 280 grit got the back a little bit of the shape there I'm going to be working
it just a little bit on each stage to see how it looks but so far I'm really loving how this
thing is looking and we're gonna get on the brown 600 grit res wheel and move on from there I think
this is really really going to turn out great so after we get through the 600 we will be cooking
through the right side of the cab King so I'll see you on the other side of 600 grit foreign
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so here's our cabochon just got through the 600 grit wheel I did a thorough inspection
and I think it's ready for the 1200 Grit wheel I think it's looking pretty good got most of the
moisture off of this in those iron lytic iron bits in there as we get further down the wheels
they take a really beautiful polish so this is going to turn out really really
amazing I'm loving how it's looking so far so I'm going to spend a good amount of time
on this wheel right here the 1200 grit wheel then I'm going to move on to the 3000 grit wheel and
the 8000 grit wheel and to get through those last three stages I think it's going to take about
30 minutes so I'm not going to make you watch through all of that but we'll see you in a very
short amount of time with the finished product and I think it's going to be amazing foreign
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so our cabochon is done we got it through the twelve hundred three thousand and eight
thousand grit wheels on our cap King I have it right down here to show you a closer look and I
am really really happy with how this turned out and I'm also very happy that I did that little
audible at the beginning and changed the shape of this because this worked out very well in my
opinion I love this oolitic Iron Stone Jasper it just has so much depth going on with it and it
has so many colors and everything in there those little beautiful bits of iron so awesome this is
my favorite material that is non-agit that makes sense obviously it gets are my absolute favorite
but this one is my next favorite and I love that I found this right here in Minnesota here's the
back side I gave it a little bit of attention on each wheel and even that in itself is beautiful to
look at but if it's ever set in jewelry you're really never going to see that but still looks
pretty cool pretty sweet really love this piece and that is our oolitic Iron Stone Jasper cabochon
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