World of Faceting Machines Ep.8 : Dressing Your Laps

This episode features the Sri Lankan technique for dressing and prepping a metal polishing lap.

I want to point out one mistake I spoke in the video: around the 3:00 minute mark we used a 1200 grit topper lap not a 300-400 grit lap to smooth out the metal.

Finally one thing I would like to add to the content of the video is that if you are rescoring during the polishing of a stone, you don't need to go through all these steps. A quick 30 second scoring and then smoothing out the metal with diamond slurry and a piece of synthetic corundum, then a good alcohol cleaning and a fresh coat of diamond powder is all you need.

Also, I never intended this video to be an example of the "BEST WAY" to polish a stone, only a complete demonstration of the technique of scoring a lap.

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Видео World of Faceting Machines Ep.8 : Dressing Your Laps канала Justin K Prim