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Looking good................You've gotta get those scratches out . What grits are you using to sand ? Fire agate seems to be softer than other agate I have worked takes a light hand. I am only on my third piece and have been working on it for a month. ...

Howdy...What are you polishing with? I have had a couple of quirky Jades but most polish really well with tin oxide on leather.....Bob

I've been playing with jade recently and haven't had a problem with polishing.  After carving with diamond bits on a dremel, I use silicone carbide stones up to 1200 grit then, I use diamond pastes  3,000 and 14,000 on a felt wheels. I'm no pro but I h...

Thank you Clint and Jon And Taos:) Everyone is so sweet:) Here are some better? pictures. I bought some sterling silver forks to try to wrap some of my finished stones as pendants. I saw some pendants that really looked cool. So the first picture is t...

I have been working on a Buck 110. I have some nice looking mostly black with dark green streak jade that I am using for the scales. I am running into a problem I have never encountered before. I cannot get  a good polish on the jade. I tried searching...

38 x 29 x 5 and 14.50 grams Sharp cornered smoothed edges. Also has a touch of Marcasite ...

30 x 29 x 5 and 7.50 grams Very slightly domed with smooth rounded edges.

33 x 26 x 5 and 9.40 grams Smooth rounded edges. There is a very slight pitting on the back edge as shown by the arrow. If this is going into a bezel type setting then no problem.

34 x 28 x 6 and 13.30 grams Slightly domed with smooth rounded cornered edges

Each stone is 20 x 16 x 4 Total weight for both are 6.60 grams Very slightly domed with smoothed cornered edges

25 x 24 x 4 and 5.0 grams Very slightly domed with smoothed cornered edges.

30 x 19 x 6 and 7.30 grams Semi domed with rounded edges.

43 x 31 x 5 and 13.30 grams Slightly domed with smoothed edges. A little different angle on the lighting in one image so as to see the beautiful flame affect !

46 x 26 x 5 and 20.1 grams Slightly domed with rounded edges

40 x 30 x 5 and 11.50 grams Slightly domed with rounded edges

49 x 38 x 4 and 15.10 grams Slightly domed with sharp smoothed edges

52 x 25 x 4 and 8.50 grams Slightly domed with smoothed sharp edges.

50 x 25 x 5 and 8.30 grams Very slightly domed with rounded edges

53 x 26 x 4 and 11.70 grams Semi domed with sharp but smooth edge

23 x 25 x 5 and 7.90 grams Semi domed with rounded edges.

33 x 16 x 2 and 4.2 grams total Flat faced with beveled edges

26 x 12 x 3 and 4.3 grams total. Flat faced with beveled edges

37 x 14 x 3 each,and 7.50 grams total Very slightly domed with beveled edges

28 x 17 x 5 and 5.80 grams Slightly domed with smoothed edges

29 x 21 x 5 and 7.0 grams Very slightly domed with smoothed edges.