Polish?

wow - i finally have an answer to something on here vs. learning....

check this out

www.toteshows.com/image/polishes.pdf

hope it helps.

uh...

Linde A is alu


nevermind


Edited to add: This write up is on an eBay listing ~

Sapphire Powder is actually 99.9% PURE 0.3 micron aluminum oxide. It is "A" grade and the best you can get and is known to some under the old brand name: Linde A.

Sapphire Powder is used for polishing tourmaline, beryl, garnet, topaz, peridot, danburite, etc. It has a hardness of Mohs 9, and is therefore most useful for polishing very hard and/or difficult materials (but not corundum). It's great for agates, thundereggs, jaspers, etc.


Guess that's an old polish chart

That chart is mainly for faceting. Or polishing stone cabs on a buff wheel. Not always the same for tumbling where AO or CE (CMO) will work most of time.

ALso 90% of what you do will be jasper or agate. Note chart does not use AO for agate, but it does agate just fine in tumbler. ALso almost any polish does jasper.

Getting the load right in water and range of stones, getting the time right in not rushing early stages, washing between stages, using pellets in polish - these will all matter more than which polish - at least most of the time in a tumbler.

Hi Rodger

I have tried to find this chart befor

[glow=red,2,300]Any chance of pinning it in" Lap Tips "?[/glow] this is a question that comes up quite often and is the basis of our polishing !!!!

Thanks a lot

Jack

Yorkshire UK

If we were to pin something it should be polishes recommended for TUMBLING stones of different type.

Maybe someone could compile a list of the usual suspects, tigereye, agate, jasper, petrified wood, obsidian, epidote, ... a few more; and then the polishes - and pre polishes - that have worked for folks here.

Might have to distinguish rotary from vibe too.