hey what's up everybody welcome back to the channel in today's video we're going to be
doing some really fun stuff we're going to be polishing porphyry on my flat lap and that's
something i've never done beforphyry... but not only are we going to be polishing porphyry.. i'm
also going to be giving that piece away to one of you amazing people so all you gotta do is hit that
like button leave a comment on this video and be a subscriber because this is my way of saying thanks
to all of you amazing subscribers for helping support our channel and i'll be announcing the
winner of the giveaway in one week and just so there's no confusion i'll put all the details
for the giveaway in the description box below but one week from now i'll be sharing a channel update
video with some really fun announcements and whoever wins this beautiful porphyry
so let's take a look at it and we'll show you how we're going to be polishing it today so here's
the porphyry that we're going to be polishing today and it's a piece that i've cut in the past
on my lapidary saw it has some beautiful orangish feldspar crystals in there as well as some quartz
and some agate bands but because these are kind of on the outer edge and we're going to be bringing
this down i have a feeling that these might disappear so what we're probably going to be doing
is hoping to bring it down to at least right here on the flat lap we're just going to go
straight down grinding it like this and then once we get kind of a flat surface then we can start
rolling it and give it that rounded edge so i'll kind of make a bit of the shape that i want here
so we're going to be bringing the material down quite a bit but i really want to give
it a nice rounded polish so let's get started so like always we're going to be starting with
the 180 grit disc i'll get the water turned on we'll start bringing the edges down here
so as you can see here we're working it pretty good it's coming down quite a bit
i want to come down a little bit more and i might actually bring this oval out just a little bit
just because of how much we're getting right here so uh which is fine because
that'll go away we'll be able to polish that out all right let's keep grinding
so we've got to ground down to the part where i have the sharpie and i'm going to start bringing
it in to see if we can start getting a full rounded edge the last thing i want is to have
any flat spots so this will be the kind of the top of the rounded face polish and it will come down
to all the sides we're on the first stage still 180 grit this is the longest stage of
stuff like this especially the size and it's a little awkward because it's kind
of thin but i think it's kind of fun and it's a little softer so it's not too bad
all right so i got my flat lap spinning here to get all the excess water off and this is
where we're at with this beauty it has some more room to come down on the sides here to kind of
make it look a little prettier but i'll be able to do that with a 260 grit disc
and then i mean if we need to we can always step back but so far i'm loving the shape of this thing
it's looking pretty good i think this is going to be a really fun piece for whoever wins it
so i'm excited that it is going well so far we'll hop on the 260 grit disc now
all right so i have to pause because i want to show you something really cool
so in the pieces that i cut here there's some agate bands and the quartz and what i
thought would might be skip an atom in it but in this one the agate bands are right
here and they're starting to disappear as i come down and i started to notice something
as i was polishing it on the 260 grit disc in the side of the porphyry lake superior agate
bands in there oh that is so cool i was hoping that we'd expose some more as we polish down
how cool is that little pocket right there above my thumb this quartz is staying in there and then
this little pocket is slowly being ground out there's some agate bands in there but
nothing crazy but this is looking really good we're going to move on to the 325 grit disc now
doesn't it look like i'm polishing a turtle shell
so i'm usually used to polishing agate and other minerals that are a little
harder with my flat lap and on the 325 grit i usually am not able to work the material down
so much which i'm still able to kind of put flat spots into this which is
very very interesting but i got it to a point now that i feel like i have the groove
of working this stone with this hardness and i'm ready to move on to the 600 grit disc
so we've run it through the 1200 grit disc and i'm really loving how this is looking so far
i know that porphyry doesn't have the same hardness as some of the other stones that
we've worked but it's taken a pretty good shine to it i'm actually pretty impressed
with that so we're going to move on to the 3000 grit disc and see how that looks
so we have run this through the 3000 grit disc and it's still wet right now but we're gonna run
it through the 14 000 grit paste on the felt pad and give it its final polish and then we'll show
you how it looks all finished and yeah i'm really excited with how this is turning out
all righty so here's the back side and it is all polished up and i'm pretty impressed with
how this porphyry has taken a polish but that's pretty good i am actually really happy with that
agate the nice quartz down here beautiful feldspar throughout the whole thing and right there
some really nice agate bands that is so cool and if we didn't polish this that wouldn't have shown
up same with that little pocket right there that is so cool so here's the other side that
oh no i polished the wrong one
just kidding but it's pretty cool to see the transformation that i can take here
oh this is one of my favorite pieces of porphyry that i've ever found and i'm happy to share
with you guys and again all the details for the giveaway are going to be the description box below
it's pretty simple leave a thumbs up on this video leave a comment because i'll pick one of you who
comments on this and be a subscriber and whoever wins it i'll ship this porphyry to you forphyry
that's the last one i swear okay well thank you guys so much for watching see you next time bye