Message #3406

[Steel and Stone]

I hear ya, but that's the price you pay for playing with sodalite.
I have several slabs and one nice chunk of it. I love the cabs you get out of it but you do have to deal with all the cleavage lines. If I'm not mistake sodalite has six different directions of cleavage . Image1 could probably set me straight on the correct number but I'm sticking with six.

One thing I have found is if you use diamond polishing paste instead of TO, AO, ect you do not get the ever so hard to get out of every crevice white powder. It kind of helps hide the fracture lines.

Personally  I think the lines make a stone sometimes, just like rose quartz that is not gem grade. When people see it polished up and set they love the inner "spider web".      He He little selling tactic for ya.