I have a baaad itch to make stone marbles

[Tpmetal]

Its alive!!

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Awesome! glad you got it figured out. looks like it is doing a great job as well.

 

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[Tpmetal]

are you using cerium oxide to polish?

 

[Toecutter]

Side pic and pic of second machine

 

[Toecutter]

are you using cerium oxide to polish?

Silicone carbide and aluminum oxide, just some tumbler grit i bought off amazon...

 

[Toecutter]

Big amethyst I started, I need to make some dimond cups to finish it...to hard for my plastic cup and grit...

 

[Toecutter]

are you using cerium oxide to polish?

Im gonna have to try some of that stuff...

 

[Tpmetal]

Silicone carbide and aluminum oxide, just some tumbler grit i bought off amazon...

if you want a super crazy nice polish, use felt (make separate cups for this and keep machine super clean of other grits) and cerium oxide as last step.

 

[Minrelica]

Fantastic idea, please post progress/results

 

[Toecutter]

if you want a super crazy nice polish, use felt (make separate cups for this and keep machine super clean of other grits) and cerium oxide as last step.

Would I used the felt cups and cerium at same time or 2 different steps?

 

[Tpmetal]

Would I used the felt cups and cerium at same time or 2 different steps?

same time, felt is the carrier for the cerium slurry.

 

[Tpmetal]

Would I used the felt cups and cerium at same time or 2 different steps?

You do need to get it to a certain step before you use cerium for best results, in the glass shop we use grits like up to around 600-1000, then pumice, then cerium. It creates a perfect polish if you keep the last two steps completely clean and separate.

 

[Toecutter]

You do need to get it to a certain step before you use cerium for best results, in the glass shop we use grits like up to around 600-1000, then pumice, then cerium. It creates a perfect polish if you keep the last two steps completely clean and separate.

Thank you...

 

[Tpmetal]

Thank you...

any questions let me know, or just look up practices for polishing glass. pm me if you need sources for grits and the cerium.

 

[cheese]

I love it when a plan comes together!

 

[Blak bart]

just saw this toe...way to go !!

 

[caretaker]

this is funny in a way, we want to make stuff we find or dig, I want to make fake coins out of lead, some of my old ones I dug and bury them in fields, I have an old lead melting pot, that a pipe fitter gave me, or maybe lead toys, dug a ton of them over the years, haha, and he gave me little gigots of lead too, I was thinking of gold leafing them and bury some on the beach