Welcome to the amazing world of high speed sanding! I break in all my pads for the HSS. One thing I like to do with mine is have a damp shop towel that I put the working surface face down on as I do another rock to maintain them staying cool.
That’s cool! I agree, intimidating. I’d still work with it too. You set the bar with polishing. No matter how hard I try to polish up to your standards, I never quite get there. You are the KING. Thanks for sharing this. 🤩 Stay Crystal 💫 Mari
That worked really well and even without the higher grit sand papers. However, you are a perfectionist, so i would expect nothing less from you! I think its going to be a perfect addition to the rock shop. Nice purchase and great first job on that thunderegg!
That is an awesome thunderegg. And for your grading yourself you are bad at it. I think that was an A+++ job for you first try on that machine. Awesome job on that piece. I would love that piece on my shelf.
That was a really cool thunder egg. I love the red color! I bet you can knock out a whole batch with that thing in a couple hours. If only you had a giant pile of rocks... XD
It's crazy how good something looks after it's been sanded down. I didn't expect it to look that cool! And yeah, given a couple hours and a bucket of already cut thundereggs...I could definitely get a few ready for polish :)
I have found that turning the rock on the first sanding stage is great for getting out all of the saw marks, but after that stage, I only sand in one directions from then on with the next steps. That eliminates the tiny little cross hatch marks that can happen from turning the stone.
Great job. I give it an "A" , but I can't see any scratches. I find that the rind gives up small bits as I near the final polish. I bevel the outer edges just slightly so I can polish the center without touching both at the same time. Keep the goodness coming! Be happy, safe and stay healthy 😷⚒
Great job, looks good. I normally go to 3k on the pads. Now why do you use berber carpet or can you use any carpet for polishing, and what speed is it at . Thx stay safe and rock on 🤘 👍
The shop that I used to spend a lot of time at used berber carpet and always gave great glossy results so I just keep using what I saw worked. Someone could probably also use felt, old jeans, leather, or other tight woven carpet similar to berber as polishing pad. I will use my 3k wheel on material that may seem to be too fractured or unstable to make it through the cerium oxide polish and then cleaning stage. For example, I have some rose quartz that I will be using the high grit wheels on because they are naturally fractured up and if the cerium gets in those crevices, I won't be able to get the oxide out without risking breaking the pieces any further.
This video came up as I was polishing one of that thunderegg's little brother last night...google must be watching. I think I would need to have chainmail gloves to operate one of those, otherwise wiener would be my nickname. Have you gotten to use it much since?
Whatever you took out the rock that you thought might be spider eggs looked like it came out of whatever organic looking material the redish orange thing is. Could just have gotten stock on that part but it literally looks like your pulling it out from inside the rock hahaha
It was already cut and sitting outside for some time so it could've been a very small spider sack :) Though, I've seen thundereggs that were cut open that had a weird mushroom growing on the inside of it. We could only guess that a spore got in a super small opening of the egg and grew. It was really weird but fascinating.
That machine is spraying silica dust into your hair, beard, clothing. Even with a vacuum there isn’t enough air movement to prevent this. Silicosis is a bad way to go.
This machine I run outside and use a fan to blow the side away from me all while wearing proper PPE to protect my health. No my first time with this machine :)
Welcome to the amazing world of high speed sanding!
I break in all my pads for the HSS.
One thing I like to do with mine is have a damp shop towel that I put the working surface face down on as I do another rock to maintain them staying cool.
I should do that next time. Just work on several eggs at once and rotate through them!
That’s cool! I agree, intimidating. I’d still work with it too. You set the bar with polishing. No matter how hard I try to polish up to your standards, I never quite get there. You are the KING.
Thanks for sharing this. 🤩
Stay Crystal 💫
Mari
It's a good machine to have.
You will get there! :) I have faith!
That worked really well and even without the higher grit sand papers. However, you are a perfectionist, so i would expect nothing less from you! I think its going to be a perfect addition to the rock shop. Nice purchase and great first job on that thunderegg!
It's hard not to be a perfectionist haha and thank you!
Definitely awesome stuff and it's indeed one to put up on a shelf to admire. 👍🏼💚🐢💚🐸💚
:)
Nice work beautiful stone it's a nice "gazing" piece. It's reminiscent of a Koi pond. Keep rockin
Thank you!
Loved your “PSA”!🤣❤🖐🏻👋👍
That is an awesome thunderegg. And for your grading yourself you are bad at it. I think that was an A+++ job for you first try on that machine. Awesome job on that piece. I would love that piece on my shelf.
I appreciate your kind words! Thank you :)
That was a really cool thunder egg. I love the red color! I bet you can knock out a whole batch with that thing in a couple hours. If only you had a giant pile of rocks... XD
It's crazy how good something looks after it's been sanded down. I didn't expect it to look that cool!
And yeah, given a couple hours and a bucket of already cut thundereggs...I could definitely get a few ready for polish :)
I have found that turning the rock on the first sanding stage is great for getting out all of the saw marks, but after that stage, I only sand in one directions from then on with the next steps. That eliminates the tiny little cross hatch marks that can happen from turning the stone.
For a first run with this (or any) machine was still very good.
Thank you!
Great job. I give it an "A" , but I can't see any scratches. I find that the rind gives up small bits as I near the final polish. I bevel the outer edges just slightly so I can polish the center without touching both at the same time. Keep the goodness coming! Be happy, safe and stay healthy 😷⚒
Thank you :)
Yeah, I've noticed that some thundereggs tend to have some loose bits on the edge.
Nice video! I don't have the nerve to try this without gloves. haha
Gracias por el video
:)
Great job, looks good. I normally go to 3k on the pads. Now why do you use berber carpet or can you use any carpet for polishing, and what speed is it at . Thx stay safe and rock on 🤘 👍
The shop that I used to spend a lot of time at used berber carpet and always gave great glossy results so I just keep using what I saw worked.
Someone could probably also use felt, old jeans, leather, or other tight woven carpet similar to berber as polishing pad.
I will use my 3k wheel on material that may seem to be too fractured or unstable to make it through the cerium oxide polish and then cleaning stage.
For example, I have some rose quartz that I will be using the high grit wheels on because they are naturally fractured up and if the cerium gets in those crevices, I won't be able to get the oxide out without risking breaking the pieces any further.
I’m thinking of getting one of those machines sometime this year. Do you know how much they are?
I bought it used for around $375. I still need to get various grits pads for it
The more time you put into a piece the better the result
You are 100% correct. If I had spend more time with the angle grinder - I would have gotten a much better finish.
This video came up as I was polishing one of that thunderegg's little brother last night...google must be watching. I think I would need to have chainmail gloves to operate one of those, otherwise wiener would be my nickname. Have you gotten to use it much since?
I've only used it a few times. Most of my projects are small. Though I would like to get more disks for it so I can play around with bigger pieces
Whatever you took out the rock that you thought might be spider eggs looked like it came out of whatever organic looking material the redish orange thing is. Could just have gotten stock on that part but it literally looks like your pulling it out from inside the rock hahaha
It was already cut and sitting outside for some time so it could've been a very small spider sack :)
Though, I've seen thundereggs that were cut open that had a weird mushroom growing on the inside of it. We could only guess that a spore got in a super small opening of the egg and grew. It was really weird but fascinating.
@@WorldofRockhounds I agree awesome find, thank you for sharing your videos with us.
Anyone else see a bear face in that egg once it was polished?
It's cool what you can see in rocks!
That machine is spraying silica dust into your hair, beard, clothing. Even with a vacuum there isn’t enough air movement to prevent this. Silicosis is a bad way to go.
This machine I run outside and use a fan to blow the side away from me all while wearing proper PPE to protect my health. No my first time with this machine :)