Many friends who love amber have started to enjoy the amber rough from the beginning, to the slow purchase, and finally to play with the amber rough by themselves. Due to the high popularity of amber, the market value has also risen, and with it, imitations are flying all over the sky. Faced with this situation, friends who like amber may wish to do it themselves, not only to avoid fakes, but also to enjoy the wonderful fun from rough to finished product.
The hardness of amber is generally 25. The characteristics of low hardness are very suitable for their own processing and polishing of rough stones, just use sandpaper, the threshold is very low, suitable for novices to try.
Amber grinding tool.
Polishing amber rough stones, you need to go through three steps of peeling, fine grinding and polishing, and the tools that need to be prepared are: sandpaper (240, 400, 1000, 2000, 3000, 5000), toothpaste, cotton cloth, you can choose electric motorcycle tools as appropriate (friends who have been playing amber rough for a long time can start with one, and the peeling efficiency is high).
Everything is ready, only the rough stone is owed!
The rough stones selected this time are beeswax (left) and Jinpera (right).
Amber grinding steps.
Shelling. First, use 240 sandpaper to slowly grind off the outer oxide scale of the rough stone, if you use 204 to peel it will be much faster.
Preliminary peeling.
However, this is only the preliminary peeling, at this time there are still red and black oxide lines on the rough stone, which need to be polished again to completely remove these lines, otherwise it will affect the aesthetics of the finished product.
Continue to peel and polish with 2400 sandpaper to reveal the basic appearance of the rough stone, and grind off all the oxide lines until only the abrasion marks of sandpaper are left.
Fine grinding. After peeling, the next step is to enter the fine grinding step, using sandpaper, in order from coarse to fine, one by one sandpaper ground grinding.
400 abrasion marks for 240 sandpaper, 1000 for 400 sandpaper, and so on. If the abrasion marks of the previous sandpaper are not worn off, there will be abrasion marks of the sandpaper after polishing, resulting in an unsightly finished product.
After using 5000 sandpaper, the effect is basically very transparent, but it will still be a little shiny in natural light.
Polished. Polishing is the last step and is done with the help of toothpaste. Place 5000 pieces of sandpaper on a cotton cloth with a little water, apply toothpaste, and rub slowly with your hands. You can see the effect while rubbing, and after about a few minutes of rubbing, a mirror effect can appear.
After 3 steps, the polishing of a piece of amber rough is completed, is it very fulfilling? The whole process is relatively simple, it doesn't require too many skills, and if you have time to try it out partially, you can create your own amber product.
You can pay attention to learn more about amber knowledge, it is not easy to create.
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