djsparkles
noticing nice landscape pebbles
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Post by djsparkles on Jun 13, 2020 15:48:58 GMT -5
I KNOW I saw a thread where someone was polishing with Ivory slivers. I can't find it to save my life. Anyone feel like giving the challenged a hand? LOL
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Post by knave on Jun 13, 2020 17:01:44 GMT -5
It’s common to use for burnishing. ingawh uses liquid hand soap as a slurry thickener.
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Post by knave on Jun 13, 2020 17:02:37 GMT -5
I tried to use Ivory shavings as a slurry, it gummed up the sides of my Lot-O.
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ingawh
starting to spend too much on rocks
The rock wants to shine, I just help it get there
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Post by ingawh on Jun 13, 2020 17:56:36 GMT -5
I tried to use Ivory shavings as a slurry, it gummed up the sides of my Lot-O. Hi Guys -- I like a soap that is liquid at room temperatures. I'm finally running out of my old favorite liquid hand-soap, Dial, and they long ago changed the formula so it's not as thick. Makes it a little trickier to balance the other ingredients. I tried using shavings from a solid soap, and found clean-up messy and filmy. If others are making ivory work, I'd be curious what they find preferable over the ease and results of hand soap. Maybe if it's their ONLY thickening agent, the denser soap helps....?
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Post by HankRocks on Jun 13, 2020 19:14:10 GMT -5
I tried to use Ivory shavings as a slurry, it gummed up the sides of my Lot-O. Hi Guys -- I like a soap that is liquid at room temperatures. I'm finally running out of my old favorite liquid hand-soap, Dial, and they long ago changed the formula so it's not as thick. Makes it a little trickier to balance the other ingredients. I tried using shavings from a solid soap, and found clean-up messy and filmy. If others are making ivory work, I'd be curious what they find preferable over the ease and results of hand soap. Maybe if it's their ONLY thickening agent, the denser soap helps....? I use 2 or 3 tablespoons of Ivory Soap shaved with a kitchen grater for all my cleaning/burnishing runs. Also add about a tablespoon of Borax powder in those runs. No issues in either UV-18 or the Thumlers Model B. It is strictly for cleaning between SiC and AO runs and for burnishing after Polish runs with no other slurry in those runs. Use other slurry additives for regular grinding/polishing runs, mostly saved and dried slurry from previous runs. I do keep the slurry separated by type of run, coarse SiC, 600 SiC, 80 AO and 500 AO. It's a lot of extra buckets. Seems to work well for me.
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billdean
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by billdean on Jun 13, 2020 19:15:02 GMT -5
I have been using Softsoap Liquid Hand Soap, Cherry Blossom. It works good for me but I have never used the old dial. It smells great when you open up the lot-o! I have a bag of ivory shavings but I never use it as I like the liquid stuff better. It does take 10 or 12 hours to get the slurry where I like it but once there it's good for a long time.
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Post by aDave on Jun 13, 2020 19:21:00 GMT -5
I KNOW I saw a thread where someone was polishing with Ivory slivers. I can't find it to save my life. Anyone feel like giving the challenged a hand? LOL Soap by itself (Ivory shavings, Borax, Deft) has no ability to polish. As knave mentioned, it's somewhat common to use something for a burnish/cleaning stage. Some may run a cleaning in between stages, but a burnish is usually run AFTER the polish stage to try to enhance the shine. Some folks swear by it - others, not so much.
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ingawh
starting to spend too much on rocks
The rock wants to shine, I just help it get there
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Post by ingawh on Jun 13, 2020 19:39:25 GMT -5
I KNOW I saw a thread where someone was polishing with Ivory slivers. I can't find it to save my life. Anyone feel like giving the challenged a hand? LOL Soap by itself (Ivory shavings, Borax, Deft) has no ability to polish. As knave mentioned, it's somewhat common to use something for a burnish/cleaning stage. Some may run a cleaning in between stages, but a burnish is usually run AFTER the polish stage to try to enhance the shine. Some folks swear by it - others, not so much. I guess I'm in the "not so much" category. I've never had much luck with burnishing stages. It seems like that's when my stones will chip or break. I use thirsty paper towels to hand-dry and burnish each rock. (My Borax has languished on the shelf for ages now )
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EricD
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High in the Mountains
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Post by EricD on Jun 13, 2020 20:24:05 GMT -5
That about sums up my experience as well
Edit: I butchered that quote, didn't I?
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jun 13, 2020 21:33:03 GMT -5
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EricD
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High in the Mountains
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Post by EricD on Jun 13, 2020 23:06:46 GMT -5
I KNOW I saw a thread where someone was polishing with Ivory slivers. I can't find it to save my life. Anyone feel like giving the challenged a hand? LOL
Despite what my dear husband thinks, I cannot read minds!
You just keep thinking that!
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djsparkles
noticing nice landscape pebbles
Member since June 2010
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Post by djsparkles on Jun 14, 2020 7:55:07 GMT -5
Thank you all! I'll be spending the day reading, it looks like
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