Thread: Gemstone Spacers

If your going to be doing work with semi-precious gems like lapis and turquoise and others you can get a small rock tumbler, they aren't very expensive and polish that way or you can use the same CrO we use to hone our razors and just add some water to make a slurry and use a dremmel with felt pad and you can mirror polish most gems fast except for the really hard ones like sapphire or topaz.

That would work, hmmmmmm... i got a tub of CrO from HandAmerica a while back so I may just do that, probably not with these though since they're already done but in the future I'll try it. Thanks

I did polish them on a sewn wheel with white rogue then on the floppy wheel with some maas before I put the poly on though. I couldn't quite seem to get them to come up really glossy that way though after the maas they were pretty shiny.

now you're talking

For those that wanted to see them in scales here they are. I still need to finish up four more of the blades and then I plan on pinning all of them so probably another week or two before that'll be done and they'll be ready for honing

Not using a dremel on the blades as a precaution .. I have some large sewn and floppy wheels for polishing using my drill and then handsanding.

The scales are ivory, pins are sterling silver and the domes you see are sterling silver bead caps that I've improvised for this purpose, just had to drill out the hole a little bit more with a 1/16" bit and they fit like a charm, really like the way that the scales came out ... now just to finish the blades.

For those that saw the other post on my attempt at repairing ivory, Saturday is the scales that were broken and repaired with the fiberglass liner. I found Ivory polishes up quite well in the whole process, very glassy so I opted not to coat them in anything as it seems that they were never coated with anything to begin with just polished up. I polished the insides of all of them as well so it's glassy both on inside and outside of scales.

Very nice. I really like what you did with the end pin and caps. Looking great.

That's inspirational. It certainly has me thinking...

I like the blue with the Ivory. Great combo.