hey what's up everybody welcome back for another lapidary video today i'm going to be doing
something i've never done before and that is polishing a petoskey stone it is so beautiful i'm
so excited a little nervous because it's a little different than the agates and stuff i'm used to
polishing but i'm really pumped and really excited to show you this so let me show you and then we'll
get to polishing so here's the back side of the petoskey stone we're going to be polishing today
we're going to be doing the entire surface of this whole stone but check out this side
how beautiful are the details in that absolutely spectacular i'm excited to give this a mered
finish and it's actually really cool but this was tumbled before it was gifted to me
if you stick around later in the video i'll let you know who gave it to me
alright so before we get started i'm gonna get my respirator on and we're gonna start on the 600
grit wheel the brown one right there because this one is actually tumbled up to about 200
grit so a lot of work has already been done for us so this should go pretty quick
let's hop on the wheels and get started
so
we've made it really far with the polishing process we're almost done and this has been
a really interesting stone to polish and earlier in the video i'll let you know who i got this from
and i actually got this petoskey stone from michigan rocks i wonder what he's doing right now
whoa warn me before you throw that hey that's looking good a little softer than agates huh
yeah they really are say could you tell everybody what exactly a petoskey stone is
yeah sure these are a fossilized coral called hexagonaria they're about 360 million years old
from the devonian period and the michigan state stone their limestone that's why they're so soft
cool thanks say can i get my stone back i got one more stage left
rob??
oh come on oh i'm sorry taylor i was just tempting a tumbler here's your rock
thanks rob all righty so now that we got our stone back i'm gonna hop on the copy machine for
our final stage the cerium oxide disc and really excited to show you guys how this is turning out
well folks here is my very first polish petoskey stone it was a really fun stone
to polish and a lot different than a lot of the eggots that i've polished in the past
i really love all these details that have come out in the polish it was really really fun and
if you liked today's video check out this video right here where michigan rocks finds
some petoskey stones and if you want to see him polishing a lake superior agate check out this
video right here make sure you guys subscribe to his channel thank you for watching bye