here's a piece of porphry that I cut and shaped so that we could
turn it into a cabochon but this is no longer the shape I want it to be anymore
this is the shape I want it to be so now that we got it to this point let's start
rounding off all these sharp edges giving it a nice domed top and then after we're
done working it on the 220 grit wheel we can move on to the 280 grit resin wheel and I'm
going to be putting some tunes in for this whole polishing process except when we're
talking but I'll make a deal with you if you can guess who I'm listening to and the album
I'll send this polished piece of porphery to you for free good luck with that one
so I worked this for a few minutes on the 220 grit wheel and porphyry is very soft
it's mainly host rock with these feldspar crystals in there it's really beautiful
material I love it a lot but very soft so we worked through that pretty quick it's still
pretty boxy it's got a lot of flat spots a lot of rough shape going on to it we're
gonna start working that out start rounding more of it out on the 280 grit resin wheel
so here we are after 10 minutes working on the black 280 grit resin wheel with
our triangle shield cabochon and I love how it's looking so far unfortunately
looks like there is a natural fracture running through right there but is what
it is we're going to move forward and we're going to move on to this wheel
right here it's the 600 grit resin wheel get the water going get the unit turned on
we'll start making it shine
so here it is after the 600 grit wheel and it's looking pretty good and because poor free is so
soft I am still getting some flat spots even with the 600 grit wheel which I mean has to be
expected but we worked out the flat spot that's right in the middle there you can see that light
roll across there very nicely so when we move on to the 1200 grit wheel we're gonna not only
make this thing pop and shine we're going to work out all those flat spots and it's going
to look even better and it already looks really good so let's move on to the 1200 grit wheel
taking a beautiful shine so we're going to move on to the 3000 Grit
final wheel really excited to be there excited to see how this takes to the 3000.
so we got through the 3000 grit and we got through the 14 000 grit paste on the pad as well as the 50
000 grit paste and here is our finished pour free cabochon it's got some natural
fractures going on in there but you can see the light playing on there
that's looking great porphyry is awesome we did some very light work to the back if it's getting
set in anything someday you're not going to see that I think it looks kind of nice so that is
our finished piece support for you our second
cabochon that we've made and over here on my left is our very first cabochon and if
you've been following along with our journey you know that one was very special to me and
there's a little bit of a boo-boo that happened with this guy I'm not gonna name names but uh
let's just say one of my Offspring really wanted to see it end it uh it broke that's all right
because we can fix it so as you can see I think it's kind of telling us where it wants to go so
if you're following along with our lapidary
Journey this is what we're going to be doing in the near future and uh
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