who's a good boy
it's squishy like me we have got a new accessory with our flat lap discs sponged backed
discs see how it has some give now this is to help us when we are polishing our stones
that are more rounded to minimize flat spots and give it a better polish and using these sponged
backed discs i think it's going to be a lot better for the rounded polishes that i prefer to give my
stones so i'm really excited to try these out for the first time with all of you today we're working
a lake superior agate i already grinded away on and shaped it on my 180 grit disc so you don't
need to sit through that let me show you what we're polishing today this thing is banded and
beautiful so here's that lake superior agate that we're going to be polishing today check
out those beautiful bands this was a nice little nodule we cut in half a while back check this out
and it's just been sitting here waiting for us to polish it
so we get to do it together today let me change disks we'll make this thing shine
so we're starting with the purple 220 grit disc and all of my discs from this stage on
have the new sponge back i'm really excited to try these out with you guys
and give this beautiful agate nice polish hopefully works we'll see
so my first impression with the spongeback disc is you can actually feel it while you're polishing
it and it's actually a little more quiet than the other discs as in before i had like let's
say it's brown i had just the brown one attached right to the black backing disc so it actually
makes a little bit of a difference with the sound too which is not something i anticipated but so
far so good with our stone we'll hop on to the 325 and uh we'll catch up with you after the 600 grit
so we're through the 600 grit disc and i am liking these
a lot more than without preferably for me i like the rounded face polishes i really really think
this little experience is turning out so i'm excited to get through we have
two more of the colored discs and then we get to move on to the polishing stages
so while this finishes spinning out to get all the excess water off we're going to grab the 14 000
grit paste that is on this felt disc we're going to move on to the polishing stage and then i also
have another felt disc with a 50 000 grit paste that we're going to try out today too
now that we're done with the 14 000 grit we can move on to the 50 000 grit paste again first time
ever using this excited to see what kind of difference it makes with our agate really excited
we'll get it in some better light here but this thing's looking pretty good
really really love those bands so make sure that's tight turn this on last stage
so i have never used a 50 000 grit paste before on a polished agate
and wow so here it is all polished up after the 50 000 grit paste on that felt disc and
it's pretty crazy now you can kind of see in the light right here in this quartz i did have
some issues with pitting and then it seemed like it would pit in the direction that the disc was
going it would cause streaks and scratches so i actually had to back up from the 3000 grit disc
to the 1200 grit disc and then come back up so that was a little frustrating but um yeah this
this is pretty crazy and for the first time using those sponged backed discs i definitely gotta
learn a few more tricks with that one say this is the best polish i've given an agate on my flat
lap but it just has a few little scratches up here that i've noticed down in this area they were kind
of awkward areas to get to but either way that agate is absolutely beautiful love the banding
i do love the quartz even though it was a bit of a stinker for me it was pretty fun
so yeah i had a lot of fun using those new sponged backed discs and that 50 000 grit paste
was awesome really excited to use that a lot more in the future and if you're interested in getting
these sponge pads for your flat lab discs the biggest tip i can give you is wait until you
need to get new discs because you're going to have to rip these off anyway to get the pad in between
them so if you are interested i'll have the link for them in the description box below use promo
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