Joined: Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:41 pm Posts: 5534 Location: Massachusetts, USA
I Try. I start with a $132.00 solid cast lap (Compare to the price of a glued-together laminate at $ 236.00), wreck it by machining out the center, shear and mix and cast the composite, then cure it, and remachine the whole lap, for $36.00.
Joined: Mon Aug 20, 2012 11:32 pm Posts: 1747 Location: Florida, United States
Jon, If you set up a web page for this new lap, here is a promotional jingle for it. (This was played at alternative music clubs around Detroit in 1984. At that time, way too controversial for anything close to mainstream.)
Joined: Thu May 15, 2008 4:55 am Posts: 237 Location: Vienna, Austria
@ Jon Over at the the twistor-thread you wrote some time ago: "When the Lightside has established itself as a permanent standard product, it also will be made in the "Heavy" version. (In a week, if someone should want one.)"
As I cut many softer, local collector stones and prefer long-lived products I am really interested in the "Heavy" lightside. I would buy one as soon as you offer it. Hope there are enough people interested so it makes sense for you to produce some of them!
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Joined: Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:41 pm Posts: 5534 Location: Massachusetts, USA
They are available now and have been for a while, but Tucson and general Production Stress have caused me to FORGET to put them on the Batt Store button. That will be fixed today. Sorry, everyone.
All fixed. It's not dementia, it's just that once the "Hard Part" is done, it's easy to forget the trivial little matter of editing a file. We have been running out straight here, 7 days a week.
Joined: Mon Aug 20, 2012 11:32 pm Posts: 1747 Location: Florida, United States
It seems the Lightside is as close to a "universal polishing lap" as has been accomplished. I designed it for softer stones, but it also works for harder stones, but with a slight rounding of meets and facet convexity.
Joined: Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:41 pm Posts: 5534 Location: Massachusetts, USA
It will act as if it was the only oxide there. In the case of softer oxides like cerium, it would probably act somewhere between chrome and cerium oxide. The short answer is "Yes".
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