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More faceting questions from the Mail Bag: Cat hair scratches are killing me on my piece of spinel – been working on polish off and on since Sunday. Using 50k diamond on BA5T (crystalite in syringe – would you recommend switch to voodoo 14k/50k/100k, corian, darkside?) I’ve tried different pressures, different speeds, cleaning lap and […]
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More faceting questions from the Mail Bag: I have a quick couple of questions I hope you have time to answer for me. My bother-in-law brought back some Australian opal from his six month trip in Australia. Some of the opal is translucent and he wants me to try to facet some of it. I
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This is just in from the mail bag: I can’t thank you enough for recommending the 600 cutting lap and BA5T to pre-polish with 3,000 diamond powder and then to use the BA5T for the final polish with 50,000 mesh diamond powder for cutting corundum. I purchased the 2 BA5T’s and the 600 cutting lap.
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