in today's lapidary video we're going to be polishing some beautiful bullseye jasper
this is the piece we're going to be doing a rounded convex polish on we're going to
leave the back sides and bottom so that it can sit in a couple different positions as a nice
beautiful display piece we recently cut this in another video got a lot of really good slabs here
we're having some fun with in the future let's get the flat lap ready
so we can start polishing this beautiful goldfield bullseye jasper
so this first stage this disc is the 180 grit disc
this is going to take probably the longest besides the very last stage which is the 14
000 grit paste i'm gonna get to working on this it's gonna take me a while
so
all righty so we've been working this stone here for about 20 minutes
it's looking really good but one of the things we've been having to battle is stuff like this
right here so been trying to work down so we have a completely flat surface like you can see
everywhere else there is this pocket right here and obviously some pretty big fractures going on
i'm not going to worry too much about that we can't do anything about it but
we're bringing the surface down just a little bit more and then we'll move on to the 260 grit disc
so i know what you guys are thinking why am i doing such a weird polish on this bullseye jasper
i've been doing a lot of kind of flat polishes and just slightly rounded convex polishes and i just
wanted to challenge myself a little bit to do kind of a very strange rounded and just kind of follow
the stone seeing where the stone takes me where the kind of the rounded edges kind of move with
the flat lap and this is kind of the place it went so i'm gonna pop the 180 grit disc off
we're gonna move on to the purple 260 degree disc and uh yeah we'll just keep polishing
all righty now that we have the 260 grit disc popped on we can plug in our pump get
the water going and start going through the discs this is how it looks completely dry
i'm gonna try to make it shine like a mirror
i'm only on the second stage and my hands already hurt
well as i'm letting the 600 grit disc spin out just want to say my nose hurts
from this mask i don't normally wear a mask while i'm doing this
but in my last polishing beauty somebody said where's your mask and
it's actually a really good idea so thank you for saying that and looking out for me and if you
look around your flat lap like me i have a black mat underneath my turret's sound with vibrations
and stuff mine has dust all around it too so to prevent silicosis make sure you guys are wearing
a mask whenever you're cutting or polishing rocks so we're going to move on to the 1200 dir
1200 grit disc
and we'll show you how it's looking it's looking awesome all right we got this pumping with water
a little too much it's a bit much get that spinning also i'll say too if you
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well i'm letting this spin out at max speed to get all the water spun off it so i can
put it on the drying rack and this is looking really good so i'm going to move on to the 14
000 grit disc which is actually just a felt disc that has 14 if i can find the opening that has 14
000 grit paste compound put on to it so i think this is probably done we'll switch them out
and really make her shine all righty we got her on i'm excited to give this its final stage
really make it pop last time i used this took me about 40 minutes to give a much smaller stone
a really good finish so i'll let you know how long this takes but let's get going
so the final stage the felt pad with the 14 000 grit paste put on to it since i've
started using it even right now it's kind of like a siege you can get lost in because it's
a lot quieter than the other stages it's one of those things where you can work the stone
and it's the only thing you're thinking about
you're just thinking about the stone making sure it's turning out the way you want it to it's nice
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so we worked this stone for about 20 minutes and i'm pretty happy with that that is really
pretty bullseye jasper it's got so many rounded edges on it the light is just playing with it
this is what it looked like at the beginning
very rough and this is the first piece of bullseye jasper that i've polished
as you saw in the beginning i have a whole tub of it we'll be doing a lot more of this in the future
well thank you all so much for watching i hope you enjoyed the video and if you did leave a thumbs up
we'll see you next time bye