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yeah I polish rocks sometimes. used to roll my own jewelry for fairs and (mostly) cheap-fancy gifts, now it mostly goes into furniture and stuff That's probably the biggest single piece I've done so far, for an inset in this thing. All the yellow crap is sulfur so I guess the whole thing is, in a sense, a big polished rock  "proper" lapidary equipment is mondo expensive but all kinds of things will shape and polish rocks. I used to use a big Harbor Freight hand drill with some cheap diamond cutoff wheels for shaping and automotive sandpaper for finishing and it worked great, made the pieces below that way among many others. More recently I found a local lapidary guild with a bunch of really nice rock saws and genies and stuff but I'm slowly inclining back to the sandpaper method just cause I can do it while chilling out at home.  a lot of my material and most of my tools got lost recently but rn I'm working on some dinosaur bone knife scales. will update if they ever stop photographing like poo poo A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Sep 13, 2023 |
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Theoretically possible but it's going to wreck your tools. You really want abrasives and something that can keep everything wet as you work, to keep the tooling and material from cooking and the silicosis out of your lungs
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