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Title: Faceted malachite cabs Post by: GregHiller on February 29, 2016, 02:49:24 pm Had some fun with some thick malachite slabs yesterday. Made these three 'faceted' cabs.
Title: Re: Faceted malachite cabs Post by: tkcaz on February 29, 2016, 04:46:21 pm Awesome. Great new approach to a classic material.
Title: Re: Faceted malachite cabs Post by: Debbie K on February 29, 2016, 05:42:25 pm Very attractive! How are you planning to use them?
Debbie K Title: Re: Faceted malachite cabs Post by: Mark on February 29, 2016, 05:54:15 pm Really nice!
Mark Title: Re: Faceted malachite cabs Post by: albertto on March 03, 2016, 11:04:15 am Very fine work and worked very polished . Have you used a grinding disk for faceting ? Title: Re: Faceted malachite cabs Post by: GregHiller on March 04, 2016, 11:21:54 am I used a diamond flexible Nova wheel for final sanding and then polished with tin oxide on leather. I've already made a setting for one of them. It needs final polishing and stone setting, and then I'll post a photo of it.
Title: Re: Faceted malachite cabs Post by: dickb on March 04, 2016, 12:31:46 pm Nice work Greg, I'm a sucker for Malachite. Just love the green colors.
Dickb Title: Re: Faceted malachite cabs Post by: GregHiller on March 07, 2016, 10:07:17 am Here's the Argentium setting. The inside surface was patinaed. Sorry about the lack of focus for the photo!
Title: Re: Faceted malachite cabs Post by: zurn on March 28, 2016, 02:05:35 pm Hi Greg
nice work on the malachite cabs I have a small piece of malachite very soft should it be stabilized and did you have to stabilize yours Anthony South of Boston Title: Re: Faceted malachite cabs Post by: hulagrub on March 28, 2016, 10:30:16 pm Great looking cabs and pendant!
Title: Re: Faceted malachite cabs Post by: GregHiller on March 29, 2016, 09:15:42 am I generally don't stabilize malachite. It is very soft, so you have to keep that in mind. Generally you can skip multiple sanding steps and go directly to a very fine grit. Use lots of water as the dust is high in copper that you don't want to be breathing, and also the stone can form black 'burn' marks if it gets too hot while sanding/polishing. Final polish I use tin oxide on leather, but sometimes touch up a bit with Zam on a muslin buff with my rotary tool. Again don't let the thing get hot.
Title: Re: Faceted malachite cabs Post by: zurn on March 29, 2016, 12:57:07 pm Thats great info Greg thank you |