hey everybody my name is taylor and today's video takes place in the realm of lapidary
where we're gonna polish a beautiful lake superior agate that i found up on the north
shore video also takes place in the realm of regret because with the same stone in the past
i took it to my old tile saw and i cut it in such a way that ever since i did that i regretted it so
today's video is about fixing that mistake we're gonna take it to the flat lap we're gonna be doing
some fun polishes on it let's grab it and i'll show you what we're planning to do with it today
so here is one of my containers that has lake superior agates that i've cut that i want to
polish in the future like this little guy how beautiful is that someday but today's video is
about this guy right here let's look at it so here it is it's got a lot of beautiful detail
in it limonite stained bands coming across there beautiful window right there of limonite so we
cut it like this and then i also cut the end off right here has beautiful white banding on the end
and very beautiful bands on the inside this is what we're gonna be polishing today
these three ends try to bring this husk down a little bit
all the way around so we can maybe expose a little more banding on the outside here
but now that i have it here in front of you i want to show you what i wish i would have
done because i cut it like this and like this and since i've grown in my lapidary maturity
i wish i would have done instead of cutting it here and here and gotten that much surface area
i wish i would have cut it the long way because then i would have had two halves this size
but it is what it is so i'm gonna get my flat lap set up
and start working this stone so while i'm getting my eight inch flat lab set up i just want to say
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yeah let's get started so this first stage i'm working with a 180 grit disc
we're going to be working out some of the cell marks but really just using it to round
the three faces so that we can get a nice rounded convex polish so let's start fixing our mistakes
got some good rounded edges here should be fun to play with
pretty excited with how it's looking so far
so
all righty we'll start polishing here
it's looking pretty good
i'll do a couple more minutes with this and
then i'm going to move on to this side on the other side
all righty so we just finished with the 260 grit disc
and some really fun details are starting to pop here it looks like possible
like a little eye patch what's going on here a bunch of little eyes or some kind of little lace
patterns going on but the bands are really starting to pop you can see them in there
coming through there really beautiful and then watch the white right here at the tip of my finger
how it goes away is because it's as it's coming in it's the white bands are going in it's really
spectacular and i'm really looking forward to because this is very clear and without fractures
like you can see a couple not a whole lot going here as we get through the polishing process
and this gets closer to a more mirror-like finish i'm really excited to see what we see inside here
or at least how the bands show up but this end here looking really good i don't think
there's a single fracture besides right there on this end so i'm very very happy about that
and then same with this looking really cool and i love this white patch right
here that's coming through in the bands this triangle like pattern right there
that is neat and again you can see right there some of those bubbly like eye patterns and it's
turning out really well i'm very pleased so far so i'm gonna switch from the 260 grit
to the 325 grit disc
all righty so we've finished the 325 grit disc let me get this on the drying rack
i'm gonna move on to the 600 grit disc it's the red disc we've got a lot of work to do
it's looking really great but we'll see you guys when we hit the 3000 grit disc in a couple stages
all right so we are done with the 1200 grit disc and while this is spinning at full speed at six
down here to get all that extra water off i'll show you where we're at still has one more stage
i still see some flaws in it so we'll probably work a little longer on a 3000 grit disc
but i'm very happy with where we're at look at that it's got some smudging from my hands
try not to touch this one
i'm pretty happy with these so far really excited how they're turning out
so i have finished off the polish with this felt pad and a 14 000 grit paste on that i haven't used
this in the longest time but when i got done with the 3000 grit i just wasn't that happy with it
so i've worked it on this pad right here for probably about 30 to 45 minutes and i'm pretty
happy with that pretty happy with these the bands are spectacular i really do feel like we
fixed our mistake this is really really pretty those bands see watch how it fades away here
so i wanted to say real quick to you that i'm going to be giving this away the one that has
the two faces on it all you got to do is be a subscriber like this video and leave a comment
i'll pick somebody from the comment section below with a random comment picker and i'll announce
the winner in my community tab on my youtube channel's homepage i'll put all the details for
the giveaway in the description box below if you have any other questions well if you guys liked
today's video leave a thumbs up i hope you all have a fantastic day thank you for watching bye