hey everybody welcome back for another lapidary video and in this one i'm going
to be polishing a type of agate that i have never worked before and that's a brazilian agate
this guy right here and it is an absolute beauty it's got some saw marks right here
that we're gonna work out beautiful water level banding and some beautiful bands
with the flow channel up here let's get started shaping this on my cap
and this is actually the biggest face polish that i'll have ever done in my lapidary career
so while using the eight inch cabking here
we're going to be really putting my skills to the test as well as the units of the test
as you can see there's plenty of room for this to be worked on there but i've just never worked
anything that big before so i'm gonna start working the edges out around here let's go
so we have worked this brazilian agate on the 220 grit wheel and it's looking pretty rough
that's on purpose we're going to be working it a lot on the next stage which is the 280
grit wheel and it's going to take out so many of these marks right here i know a lot of those sound
marks i believe they're right here we got those worked out so let's move on to the 280 grit wheel
so i'll continue to work this stone on the 280 grit wheel i wanted to tell you
a little bit more about this again it was sent to us from tom so that we could give
it a nice polish and then when we're done we're gonna send it right on back to him
but he had a pretty funny story about how he came about getting this brazilian agate he was
walking through his old neighborhood and found a box labeled free rocks and that was in there
an absolute score so that is pretty cool and i'm excited that it's now
our part to play in this stone story by giving it a mirrored finish polish let's get back to work
okay i have been working on the 280 grit wheel for probably a good hour and a half and because i
made a little mistake when i was on the 220 grit quit grit wheel and the mistake i made is when i
was shaping it on this wheel and i was rolling it i caught these corners a little bit and it caused
these streaked scratches that were very very deep so i spent so long on the black 280 wheel
working it out but i'm thinking this is looking pretty good you can kind of still see
a little bit right there and i'm just curious is it too deep for the 600 wheel which is the next
stage or can we work it out so i'm doing a little test if i need to step back to the 280 after the
600 and those are still there that's perfectly fine but i figured i'd at least try so we're
going to turn the machine back on put the water on on the 600 wheel and we'll see if that works
so yeah we had to move back from the 600 wheel to the 280 degree wheel work out
all of those fractures those little itty bitty ones that were being such stinkers
and work all those out it took a very long time but i'm happy to say that we moved
back up to the 600 grit wheel worked it through that stage and it is looking fantastic and i'm
so excited to now be on the 1200 grit wheel and hopefully we can just breeze through the last few
stages because i think so far i've put about two and a half to three plus hours into this
a lot longer than anticipated but it's worth it because we got to make this thing shine for tom
and it's it's looking really good so i'm pretty excited about it so here we have the white 1200
grit wheel here's our brazilian agate i'm gonna get the water turned on which i have a little
foot switch down here we'll get that turned on and spraying and we'll get to work on this baby
so we have got a brazilian agate through the 1200 grit resin wheel and it is looking absolutely
beautiful we're gonna move on to the 3000 grit we'll see afterwards
we have made it through the 3000 grit wheel and check
out that shine oh i'm so happy with how this is turning out and we still have two more stages
left the 14 000 paste and the 50 000 pace which we're gonna do here in a second but before we do
i just wanted to weigh this thing on my little scale here and i know you guys are gonna laugh
the scale has the same name as me and i thought i would share a fun little fact about me is i was
actually named after taylor scales because my parents just couldn't weight to have me
12.9 ounces sweet sweet well we will move on to the 14 000 paste
so now that we got this fired up this pad right here is a polishing pad that has been charged with
14 000 grit paste you can run it wet if you want to but i'm gonna try just to run it dry see how
that fares and we're gonna take it nice and slow and we're gonna work it for quite a while here
just to give it the best polish we possibly can we'll check back in with you after a little while
so while we wait for my cabking to stop spinning and we can put the 50 000 pace pad on let's check
this baby out after three thousand you can see it still has kind of that gooey paste on there
from the pad so we're gonna clean it off and we'll take a look at it
well that is looking pretty good you can see me in the reflection there
and it's not even in the best light we'll get it in some really good light
here but i'm just so anxious we're going to move on to the 50 000 grit pace now
well finally finally after many many hours of polishing we have wrapped this brazilian agate up
i've ran it through all the stages we possibly can and this is hands down the best polish i have
done on my cabking and probably one of the best polishes
i've ever given a stone and one of the biggest faces i've ever polished as well this almost one
pound brazilian agate oh what a beauty you can see the light shimmering over all these amazing bands
well there you have it our beautifully polished brazilian agate and before
you go i want to show you one last special thing about this brazilian agate it reacts
to uv light how amazing is that well if you like this video leave a thumbs up leave a comment let
me know what you thought thank you so much for watching and we'll see you on the next one bye