TByrd
fully equipped rock polisher
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Member since December 2010
Posts: 1,350
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Post by TByrd on Jan 24, 2015 1:41:08 GMT -5
Love Tigers Eye. What a pretty piece.
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Post by gingerkid on Jan 25, 2015 9:23:40 GMT -5
broseph82, you're on a roll with the pretty cabs!  What is the first one you posted?
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Post by broseph82 on Jan 25, 2015 20:23:33 GMT -5
broseph82, you're on a roll with the pretty cabs! What is the first one you posted? The very first moss agate I Slabbed that I thought had a scenic look. |
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Post by glennz01 on Jan 25, 2015 23:14:12 GMT -5
broseph82, you're on a roll with the pretty cabs! What is the first one you posted? The very first moss agate I Slabbed that I thought had a scenic look. Can you get a better pic of the finished product? (try using your camera flash.. It will get a good pic that way... It may take a few tries though. |
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Post by broseph82 on Jan 25, 2015 23:16:42 GMT -5
The very first moss agate I Slabbed that I thought had a scenic look. Can you get a better pic of the finished product? (try using your camera flash.. It will get a good pic that way... It may take a few tries though. Yeah I will tomorrow. I typically use my phone and the lighting sucks in every single room of my house! |
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Post by broseph82 on Jan 28, 2015 14:56:01 GMT -5
The very first moss agate I Slabbed that I thought had a scenic look. Can you get a better pic of the finished product? (try using your camera flash.. It will get a good pic that way... It may take a few tries though. I ran it through my vibe for a better polish and now I have 500grit all through it. It has a killer effin shine to it. I can see my reflection in the cab!! I have a spot gun in the mail so whenever I get it I'll get those spots removed and post again. My 3 day burnish didn't make my cab better. |
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Post by glennz01 on Jan 28, 2015 21:32:56 GMT -5
Can you get a better pic of the finished product? (try using your camera flash.. It will get a good pic that way... It may take a few tries though. I ran it through my vibe for a better polish and now I have 500grit all through it. It has a killer effin shine to it. I can see my reflection in the cab!! I have a spot gun in the mail so whenever I get it I'll get those spots removed and post again. My 3 day burnish didn't make my cab better. alright, was the spot gun you ordered from the link that I posted a while back (BABS spot gun). Should anything go wrong they have great customer service (100% better than Graves) Just a tip with the gun.. it does not remove moss and grass the best... but it does a decent job with some organic materials. |
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Post by broseph82 on Jan 28, 2015 21:41:43 GMT -5
glennz01 I just need to remove polish from moss agate not actual moss stuck on rocks. Lol
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Post by glennz01 on Jan 28, 2015 22:02:42 GMT -5
glennz01 I just need to remove polish from moss agate not actual moss stuck on rocks. Lol Yeah but if you do find moss encrusted rock its a toothbrush works better for that  . Are there like 2 pits or so in the piece that got filled in with polish? if there are no pits I find that using a washcloth (dry) takes the polish off good and often times gives the stone an even higher gloss (especially if you never wash the cloth) |
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Post by broseph82 on Jan 28, 2015 22:04:57 GMT -5
glennz01 these aren't pits you'd normally see. It's the microscopic kind that you'll only see with a loupe. It feels smooth as can be, but the backside has more of it in there, but it totally ruins the front of the cab with the white spots.
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Post by glennz01 on Jan 28, 2015 22:17:51 GMT -5
glennz01 these aren't pits you'd normally see. It's the microscopic kind that you'll only see with a loupe. It feels smooth as can be, but the backside has more of it in there, but it totally ruins the front of the cab with the white spots. take it on your external polishing pad on your lapidary grinder if you have one.. might that work? I'm not much of a "I can see my face".. just me, but it works well I think. |
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Jan 31, 2015 20:54:51 GMT -5
I really did not cab much this month but I have some lakers tumbling right now and pulled a good sized one out that was too full of pits to bother tumbling. I cut the nodule in half to see if I could salvage any of it and decided to try this one cab. I don't do many chamfered cabs but I thought it looked good for this one.     Thanks for looking Chuck |
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What is the first one you posted? 
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