hey everybody welcome back if you're new my name is taylor and in this lapidary video we're going
to be polishing a cut agate from australia and it's pink it's got a little bit of quartz in
the middle it's really beautiful we're going to be polishing this agate on my eight inch cabking
and as you can see it is very flat we are going to be rounding it and bringing these edges down
so it's a nice rounded face polish there's a lot of really cool bands going on in here and
something that's really cool when you bring a light up to this agate glows i think that's
pretty cool how translucent that is even though it looks opaque and this wheel right here is the 220
grit wheel and we're gonna be spending most of our time on here shaping this and rounding this
so let's get the cap king turned on get the water flowing let's start shaping this beautiful agate
alrighty so we've been working this for about a minute here and one of the things i was excited
to see is as we bring this husk two more rounded as we get there the bands start
dropping down and they absolutely are i think that looks really cool so we'll keep shaping
this you can see there's still flat spot up here we got to bring this to a fully rounded face
so we worked that on the 220 grit wheel for about four minutes and i think it's looking
pretty good we'll be able to really work out some of these flat spots that you can kind of see like
right there work that out on the 280 grit wheel i think this is looking really good it does have
one fracture on it here right there but that's all right is what it is
so i just spent another three four minutes on the 280 grit resin wheel and we're gonna be
moving on to the 600 1200 and 3000 grit resin wheel and it's looking really good this is how
it's looking so far as you can see it's got a nice little dome to it it's looking really good
love the bands so let's move on to this side 600 1200 and 3000.
so we got this australian agate polished through the 3000 grit resin wheel and i think it's looking
really good and one of the things that i found when you're polishing agates with quartz coarse
has all these little micro fractures it is very very hard to polish so as you see the
light rolling right there you can see a little pocket there's like little quartzy fracture
pockets all over it i've always had kind of a hard time polishing quartz but the bands the
outside around the courts that looks really really good really love that it almost looks like an eye
either way you flip it and i really love that pink pastel look that this has it is
truly a beautiful little agate nodule that we cut and now finished polishing well i had a ton
of fun polishing this beautiful little agate and i hope you enjoyed it too if you did don't forget to
like it and share it and all that good stuff and if you're interested in checking out that 8 inch
cabking that i use in this video i'll have the link to that in the description below and use code
agatedad to save 10% on accessories thank you all so much for watching we'll see you next time bye