![]() I polished them both and brought them back to the shop where I acquired them and the response I got was, “I should have never sold you that”. I managed to acquire two slabs for $20 each. The rarest and most expensive variety and oh did I really want some. ![]() Over time, I had made wonderful pieces, but then I discovered fire obsidian. The initial idea was to use it as a test piece but it ended up being a work of art. I grabbed a piece of rainbow from the small collection I had at the time, brought it to the shop where I had taken my class and got to work. That stone would set me on my quest to do what they could not. They had reached out and said that they tried multiple times and could not achieve a polish on the stone and handed it over. It all started with the purchase of electric blue rainbow obsidian that I paid a shop $20 to cut and polish. After I worked on this stone, I wanted to learn how to polish obsidian because it’s both somewhat hard and brittle while being very difficult to get a good polish with minimal scratches. I once took a lapidary class where I took a small stone, cut it in half and only polished one side while leaving the other half of the stone unpolished to have a “before and after” memento of my first worked stone. It started with rainbow obsidian and over time, transitioned into fire obsidian and a fire obsession. There is virtually no limit to what you can do with stone.įor those that practice and apply the lapidary arts, each artist will have their own set of skills and knowledge in specific fields of the trade. ![]() It can be as simple as a straightforward cut and polish or as in depth as carving an animal from the stone to bring it to life. ![]() The lapidary arts is a unique hobby in which you can take a stone in its rough state and through various stages of tools and grit, turn it into something beautiful. Let’s talk about polishing rocks and fire obsidian – a two for one tale. Polishing Obsidian: An Insight from MildKyle ![]()
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