Turkish chrome chalcedony

[tribeunited]

That cab really turned out very pretty. I absolutely love it. Does it have a glow when backlit?

[whalecottagedesigns]

tribeunited It very much does! :-) Thank you kindly!

[realrockhound]

What’s your final polish process? After the 3k wheel

[rockjunquie]

Many years ago, Scott- formerly shotgunner- had some similar material he was calling Turkish Rainforest Chrysoprase.

Here is a cab of it. I think I still have some rough. The cab has a lot of depth.

[whalecottagedesigns]

Oct 26, 2024 15:31:51 GMT -5 realrockhound said:

What’s your final polish process? After the 3k wheel

For all of my quartzes including the micro- and cryptocrystalline versions I go straight from 3K to Linde-A (100K equivalent) on leather. Like Zam for Malachite, or dry T-shirt material for Amber, this really is the silver bullet polish for quartzes for me!

I use a water spray bottle with roughly 6 teaspoons in about half a litre of water, just for the record. And sometimes with a really beautiful cab, before I start, I will sprinkle a little "extra", maybe a quarter of a teaspoon on the previously pre-wetted (sprayed with the solution) leather wheel before I spin it on the side on the Cabking. I spray the leather with the solution when I hit the 1200 wheel so that the leather soaks up the moisture by the time I am done with the 3000 grit. I will polish the cab until it starts to "tug", starts to dry, then spritz with the water bottle solution. I hope this makes sense!


And as I am still learning, this is still quite the enigma wrapped in a puzzle to me, as up to the 3K, one has to roughly double the grits. 80 to 220 to 280 to 600 etc... But the jump straight from 3K to 100K works incredibly well on quartz. And I really do not have to spend much time on final polish either, it goes seriously quickly there, maybe a minute or two! Compared with 5 minutes or more spent on each of the other wheels.

[lapidary1234]

That is stunning material!!

On a side note, I hope large pictures are okay, I know I followed the tutorial to minimize the amount of data they use but I'm not too confident in changing coding...

I try and crop my photos so that the stone is prominent in the photo.

Someone please let me know if I'm breaking etiquette!

[whalecottagedesigns]

rockjunquie That is really pretty material too! Wowzers! From what I was reading, there is a chromium mine in another province in Turkey, perhaps that is from that place!