so here we have a lake superior agate that we recently cut for michael and on the inside of
it is some really beautiful bands but when we cut it it had this really weird fracture happen right
at the end and i feel pretty bad about that so i told michael we're gonna polish this for him
make it look real pretty so that's what we're doing in today's lapidary video
we're going to use our cabbersix cabbing machine do a very light rounded face polish on this
beautiful lake superior agate so let's fire up the cabbing machine and start shaping these faces
so we're going to start on the 80 grit wheel and work on that rounded face polish i told you about
it's probably going to take the longest so i'll get started here
all right i'm just gonna do a quick little rinse to show you this before i move on
from the 80 grit to the 220 there's still a big flat spot right here as we move forward we are
going to work that out but this is looking great classic lake superior agate fractures in the face
of course but it does not take away from how beautiful this is this is going to be great
really really great polish we're going to get out of this beautiful bands really beautiful
so let me move on to the 220 grit wheel and then i'm excited to get into the softback
wheels these guys right here really excited to get into those so let's move on to the 220.
alrighty so we got them through the 80 and the 220 grit wheels this one's wet this one's dry
just to show you how they look i'm really excited to make them permanently look like this they're
going to look absolutely spectacular those bands in there are so beautiful so let's move on
to this guy right here the 280 grit we get the water going there it goes all right let's go
so as you saw there i was using my light and checking out some of these scratches
that you can kind of still see down in here yeah a little bit of scratches right there i think we're
pretty free of them everywhere else on this one maybe a little bit right up there but i
think i'll be able to get that worked out on the next wheel the 600 here's the uh the first one
this one's looking pretty good too looks like there's a little bit right there that i missed
so i'll hit that spot a little bit harder on the 600 we'll watch it see if it goes away and then
there's a little spot right here that i'm now noticing that probably not probably won't come
out in the 600 so you know what i'm gonna back up one to the 280 work this out work this out
and then we'll move on to the 600 so i'll do that quick and then i'll meet you right here at 600.
all right we have got through this 600 grit wheel these are looking great i'll dry this one off
they're gonna look fantastic when they are all finished up looking really good really
really good worked out a lot of imperfections and like i said they got these fractures that's lake
superior agate curse they're full of fractures but it's still really beautiful i absolutely
love this agate those bands they're really going to pop when we finish up but before we move on
to the last three stages i got something cool to show you i got a new addition to
the shop down here so we are getting serious down here getting serious check this out
you ready let me install it here and then we'll show you what we're capable of now
oh yeah that's right i got myself an official chip bag holder so now we can polish
and dip my hand in the bag we yeah we just not car we can play hard that's what it's all about
so move on to the 1200 i'm gonna stuff some of these in my respirator we'll get going
all right so got through the 1200 grit disc and i gotta say my chip bag holder it did
not work it failed and failed miserably it's terrible terrible idea i can't believe that
and if you stuff these flaming hot chips in your mouth and throw a respirator on
that's what you're breathing while you have a respirator on
my face feels spicy just like these golly they're looking good looking so good let's finish it up
let's hit the 3000 grit wheel get the water going i'm excited this is turning out
so we got both sides of that lake superior agate polished up they look beautiful i'm
so excited to show you but before i show you could you do me a huge favor leave a thumbs up
on this video and help support this video and i had a lot of fun during this whole process
and i'm really excited to get these back to michael i think he's going to be really happy
let me show you alrighty so here are both halves of that lake superior agate
i think this one took a better pause just because of you know the fractures are a little more
noticeable on this one and this one also has this really funky pocket that kind of blew out here
and then this is cool though that's a little micro geode pocket there's little itty bitty geocrystals
in there but i really really like this one and if you could look right there you can see that there
and that there those aren't smudges that's just part of the layering in the egg really really
neat and i really love the bands how they come around all the way around ah they just didn't have
those fractures but it is what it is it's still beautiful absolutely amazing bands i love that
that is so pretty i really like this one right here it has some bands kind of popping through
again those fractures that are right there almost makes it look like scuff marks but
very interesting really loved it i had a fun time polishing these
and i'm excited to get them back to michael thank you guys so much for watching
click on one of the videos that pops up right here see you next time bye