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Post by sophia13 on Aug 16, 2018 16:54:40 GMT -5
Hello all, I bought a slab of Turkish agate online. It is lovely but when I inspect it up close, the orbs (circles) and tubes all have traces outlines around them as if you could "pop" them out of the slab. Hope I'm making sense. I don't think this will polish out...or will it. All the characteristics of the piece pretty much have this. Should I coat with something, just cut my cabs out and polish? Need some direction please.
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goatgrinder
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Post by goatgrinder on Aug 16, 2018 18:57:52 GMT -5
Well if they do polish nicely I hope that you will post the pretty pics.
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quartz
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Post by quartz on Aug 16, 2018 23:04:42 GMT -5
Different sort of material, but I've had a few orbs fall out; epoxied them back in and kept on grinding/polishing. Worked good.
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Post by rockjunquie on Aug 17, 2018 7:22:08 GMT -5
This may not be much help, but I have cabbed quite a few and they held up all right. Both on the saw and the grinder.
edit- You can coat the surface with some thin CA (crazy) glue. That will fill any small voids for cabbing.
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