How To Polish Rocks With a Dremel | A Guide Featuring Banded Calcite
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- This is how we polish rocks with a Dremel tool! For the video we will be using a beautiful piece of banded calcite, and below is a list of the tools we use (excluding PPE).
Diamond Grinding Drums- a.co/d/16p7GCc
Sanding Discs- a.co/d/eMSDDlP
Dremel- a.co/d/57KTcFs
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Ah! I am going to try this for wet sand/polish resin
that's a great idea!!
This was great, thank you!
no problem, thank you!
Thank you do much for making this
you're welcome! ☺️
Beautiful piece of rock! Very informative, thank you
thank you!
Thank you i had so many questions on what to use. Im going to try this with ruby zoisite. I tumbled a batch but they wont polish tumbling i hope this works. Also thanks for adding the links on what to purchase. All so helpful and informative 😊
ruby zoisite will do beautifully! I have some I want to polish but the pieces I have are too small. it's good to know they don't tumble well! thanks for that information! ☺️💜
@thebroadhouse they tumble well they just won't polish I tried dry polishing in the rotary tumbler with tin oxide as well as with water just would not polish. I think using the dremel will work following your instructions 😊 thanks so much!
@michellebelding2325 you're far more knowledgeable about tumbling than me. I have a couple, just nowhere to set them up currently. well I wish you the best of luck with your ruby zoisite and I hope to see you around again :) if you ever make any videos of your rocks tag us we'd love to see! 💜
@thebroadhouse I subscribed to your channel I love what I've seen..thanks again🩷
@@michellebelding2325 thank you!!! 💞
Do you ever place your Dremel into a holding device (vice, clamp, etc.) and move the rock surface to it? I want to get as flat a surface face as possible with my material. Great video!! Thanks for the instructions!
No I haven't ever done that before! That's a good idea though!! Thank you 💜
Thank you! Looking to start with a Dremel but was not sure where to start. How long did it take you to go from start to finish and what sort of speed was the Dremel set at?
It takes a few hours depending on the size and hardness. This calcite took about 3-4 hours whereas a piece of jasper I'm currently working on has that much time in it and I'm still not done shaping.
Many thanks @@thebroadhouse
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Amber may be too harsh for this, I don't want to break it. ideas?
Amber is soft like calcite! You should have no problem polishing amber with this method.
Over and over, I keep getting to the point where a stone is looking great. Usually around 800 grit. Then, at some point in the high grit sanding, the stone starts to look cloudy, losing some of the transparency. Am I using too much pressure? I have water dripping over the stone. I can't figure it out.
the same thing happens to me! when it does, I back down a couple of grits until it works it out and then spend more time on that lower grit before moving on. I think the cause is not spending enough time on the lower grits.
About how long did it take you to polish that piece?
probably about 4 hours worth of work
You don’t use a polishing paste?
no but we might in the future
what about proverb
looks like a face blowing a kiss
it does kinda 🥰