My daughter picked the group in the lower righthand corner for the fifth run.
100 grit grind --
All of these are quartzes. The little one has a few large clear areas.
All three larger stones developed cavities. But I think I can work around all of them except on the red one.
I found that disappointing as I liked the iron stained one with its deep red "veins". The yellow brown one's cavities along the bezel might cause some problems. I don't know.
Not sure why blogger is making these two pics as downloads when you click on them. I set up the links like the other pics. Strange.
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220 grit grind --
Need to finish this batch before the Christmas stones come in.
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In an effort to save time I went through the sanding and polishing without taking pictures.
I'll put the end pics up later tonight or in the morning.
Something new I tried - rounding the bezel. Going through terapeak I noticed that all the ruby and jade had rounded bezels and I thought I should learn how to do that.
Thought I'd try the rounding on the 360grit step. No no no. It will need to be done on the 220grit sanding step.
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Polished -
Running late and couldn't get a good pic of the large white quartz. The brown quartz had several cracks that reached the surface.
