First Freeforms

First to get polished! About time.... I ordered my arbor and some wheels and a drum with belts at the same time 8 weeks or so
back. The arbor and the wheels came right away. I could grind in 80, 220, and 600 and 1200 almost from the start. The polishing
stuff was back ordered. A month later I was still roughing out blanks and wanting so bad to polish one.
Then some belts arrived, but no drum. Finally I gave up and ordered some leather disks and some diamond powder. So two weeks ago I got to polish. The crazy lace was the first up and it shone like the sun (it looked like that to me, anyway, after all the frustration) with little effort. "Wow", I thought, "this is easy". Next up was some quartz... and after two weeks of trying I eventually managed to figured out how to get a shine on some pieces. Lots of it still defies me!
So, finally, something to show... except for the three favorites that caught leather and launched into the backing plate with a sonic
boom and exploded...

A piece of sodalite, a piece of crazy lace.
The dark one is some driveway gravel .... Granite with much embeded mica.
The others... well, where I am in Ga. they say any given rock is either part of Stone Mountain (granite) or it is quartz, quartz
related, or was badly frightened by quartz at some time. I found all the rest on my land or a neighbors land, and I'm figuring
quartz or quartz like.

Thanks, Tony

Then there is the photography part. Getting good pics of these things is hard. I'm afraid my 8 year old digital is not up for the
task.

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