Wet Grinding Petirfied Wood

[@ant-1382]

Where do you get your disks, never seen anything like them in any, lapidary shop. And what about the grinder?

[@joebishop4316]

Amazon or eBay both carry them

[@joebishop4316]

look under polishing pads for wet grinder

[@UtahGold]

Awesome video. Thank you. I am interested in that red piece at the beginning, what state is that from?

[@joebishop4316]

Thank you. That red is from Utah

[@joebishop4316]

That one is from Utah

[@happyhunting4rocks]

Hey Joe! Let your son know that he did Great on this video! Very well done!! See ya out in the field!! -Happyhunting4rocks!!

[@cornholius]

eye protection! Thank you for the video

[@jackmorris9431]

Great help but do you have any info on the brand or source for the 20 grit grinding cup

[@joebishop4316]

Jack here is the site I use www.mkdiamond.com/lapidary/cup_00.html where I get mine from if I don't get one in Quartzite first.

[@fasukeed22]

@@joebishop4316 What is the name of the store you get your supplies from in Quartzite?

[@joebishop4316]

@@fasukeed22 In Quartzite I mostly visit Diamond Pacific

[@rockshox08]

Where can you get the super fine polishing pads ? You don’t use any polish for the wood, just pads ??

[@joebishop4316]

I can only find up to 13000. Which for petrified wood you can get a high polish. I order mine online through the rockshed if you can't find it let me know and I can send you a link.

[@derronius]

Thanks for this video and your enthusiasm for making beautiful things. I just got a 100 lb. piece of petrified wood, and want to polish it. What sort of machine should I look for?

[@joebishop4316]

Derronius; First off are you going slap the petrified wood or do you want to keep it as a whole piece? A flat lap works well on slaps, but if you want the whole log then I would use a wet grinder. Also if I could see a pic of the petrified log it would help.

[@joebishop4316]

Also check out my face book page under Joe Bishop, Bloomfield NM it is open to anyone, I've got pic of some of my polished petrified wood on there

Joe Bishop Hey, I'm down here in Albuquerque. I'm a bit of a newbie, but I'd like to say I was really impressed with your video. I can see it's a lot of work- But hey, when it's a labor of love, it's alright. Man, you have some nice pieces. I know damn well I'm going get some too. You just gotta put the time in and be willing put forth the effort. Hell yeah, you got me rearing to go...

[@joebishop4316]

2eelShmeal thanks for the complement, most of my petrified wood comes from right here in NM. Good luck and happy rock hunting.

[@cynthiadunbar9807]

Hi Joe, I have a chunk of petrified wood that I want to try to polish. I've tried finding the tools that you use in the video... haven't been able to find any that look like yours. Could you tell me where you got yours?? Great video, very informative and educational!! Keep on polishing you do a great job!!! Thanks in advance for your help, Cynthia

[@joebishop4316]

Cynthia, Thanks for the comment on the video. My wet polisher is a Makita, if you have a tool store (not home depot) it has to be a real tool store that sales Makita tools. The down side to the Makita from them stores, it doesn’t come with grinding or polishing pads. You can look up wet polisher on the web and find some good ones that come as a kit with everything you need to start out polishing. Amazon does have Makita compete kit for $459. If you have any upcoming rock shows in your area, someone may have Barranca for sale they have a nice starter kit or you can find a Barranca wet grinder at www.therockshed.com/equipment3.html I hope this helps you out good luck and happy polishing.

[@cynthiadunbar9807]

Joe Bishop Thanks Joe... the hunt is on!! Your reply has been out of the universe helpful!!! Keep rockin' it!!! Cynthia

[@cynthiadunbar9807]

Joe Bishop Hey again Joe, In your expert opinion... between the two wet polishers which is better? Thanks so much... you're great!!!

[@joebishop4316]

Cynthia Dunbar I have both kind, but I prefer the Makita over all it has speed control, Also forgot to tell you they have 4" and 5" grinders, you will be better off with a 4" the disk are much easier to find in a 4"

[@cynthiadunbar9807]

Joe Bishop Hi Joe!! Thanks for the helpful info, your absolutely amazing!!! Where do you find you steel flat discs and steel cups that you talk about?? I will have to send you before pics and after pics of this chunk of wood... it weighs 224 pounds, I'm excited to see how my first one will come out. I actually have 4 chunks to polish up if the first one comes out. Once again thanks for all the help... you are too cool!!!!!

[@aureliencotard5044]

Hi! Thanks for the great video. I started to polish petrified wood with a wet grinder. I used different grit size until 3000 and buff but I have still some scratches on the stone. Could I use tin or Cerium oxide to have a smoother and shiny surface? Thanks

[@joebishop4316]

Aurelien, try tilting your grinder to one side and not using the whole disk as this will put scratches in your stone, to get that nice shine you have to have no scratches. Most of your work is done between grits 50 to 300 inspect your stone closely after grit 300 if you have scratches go back a few grit sizes and redo your work. After grit 300 you are now in the polishing phase, but some times you may pick up a foreign object that could make a scratch, so continue to inspect your work for scratches. I don't like using the buffing pad. I've found on line you can get finer grit pads, then comes with your set. Look for 4000, 5000. the 6000 (which is my favorite) 8000, 10000 and the finest I've have found so far is 13000. I have found that ten and cerium oxide polishes sometimes reduces the 13000 grit shine on petrified wood. Remember some polishes doesn't work well on some stones and works great on others. I would say try it if it doesn't do better you can always buff it out. Let me know how it works out good luck.

[@aureliencotard5044]

Thanks a lot for your help! I will try to follow your advices.

[@michaelvandyke]

Thanks for sharing the video...

[@jeffhall4350]

I have a large supply of original petrified wood - trunks up to 30 inches round and 5-7 feet long as well as a number of other pieces. What is the best way to go to market with it?

[@CuriousEarthMan]

thanks for the great video! Are all your grits you mention diamond? (except the cerium oxide) Also, in the video, you say you go up to 35000 grit, but in your comments, you say you only go to 13000 with your pads. What else do I need to understand here to makes sense of that please? Really appreciate your sharing your knowledge! Thanks!

[@joebishop4316]

CuriousEarthMan I do apologize for the confusion. On some of my Petrified Wood slabs I do use 35000 and 50000 paste grit, using a leather pad I made just for the paste. But on this piece I only went to 13000, this is the highest diamond grit I’ve found you can get for the wet polishing grinding pads. Hope this cleared that up I didn’t noticed that mistake, thank you.

[@CuriousEarthMan]

@@joebishop4316 It makes it very clear and understandable! Thank you very much!

[@diecast_5913]

i learned how to polish my wood!

[@loisathome1]

I have some smaller pieces of petrified wood that have been carved into fish and when purchased, were super shiny. They've been outside and have lost their lustre. Any idea idea how to bring back the shine? Thanks so much!

[@joebishop4316]

+Lois Anderson There are some acids out on the market that will remove the outside oxidation that occurs when a stone is left outside in the weather one is oxalic acid. But do your research on these acids you want one that doesn't eat your stone. Petrified wood is at most time a very hard Jasper most acids will work. The other way is by hand with a Fordom or Dermal that how your fish were carved, you have to get you some polish for petrified wood I would use cerium oxide. I hope this helps you out good luck.

[@CuriousEarthMan]

I'm no expert here, but I hear leaving petrified wood out in the sun makes it fade.... then as Joe is saying the outer layer needs to come off. I think I'd put in shade somewhere :)

[@colbymorris7530]

I can’t seem to find the 20 grit steel cup disk anywhere. Can you link to your supplier? Thank you!

[@joebishop4316]

Colby here is the site I use www.mkdiamond.com/lapidary/cup_00.html

[@colbymorris7530]

Joe Bishop thank you! Is that the BD-850 you were using?

[@joebishop4316]

@@colbymorris7530 yes

[@cynthiadunbar9807]

Oh.... I forgot to tell you which method I want to use. It would be the grinder. Thanks again!!!

[@markgrissom]

Hi Joe, thanks for the video. Where to you get your steel and soft disks? I am having trouble finding the 20000 + soft disks.

[@joebishop4316]

I get my disk online you can find all you need at www.therockshed.com/partsbarranca.html. I can only get up to 13000. The disk I use are a 20 grit steel cup and a flat steel 20 grit disk, then my soft disk start at 30 and go up to 13000, I try not to jump more the a 100 grit at a time. If can find them I like only going up 50 grit at a time but it is hard to find them in between disk.

[@joebishop4316]

Hey Mark I gave you the wrong info on the disc here is the right place on line to find every thing you need for your wet polisher www.therockshed.com/partsbarranca.html

[@DIOSNOESECRETO]

from wich part geographicly is these? Thanks!

[@joebishop4316]

DIOS NO ES SECRETO This is a Palm Root Ball found near the Farmington NM area. It is form the Cretaceous Time period found in the Kirtland Formation

[@DIOSNOESECRETO]

Oh great data THANKS A LOT! Y`m searching for RED WOOD petrified wood fotos or any data could you tell me if you know something about it please?Thanks you very much!

[@joebishop4316]

@@DIOSNOESECRETO look under petrified sequoia wood. It isn't really Red Wood that is just the nick name given it.

[@DIOSNOESECRETO]

@@joebishop4316 thnks

[@ryhtz]

Luckily I don't have to at all here. It's on the surface and very common.

[@joelrubletz2603]

How do you know when to switch disks?

[@joebishop4316]

after 300 the scratches sound get less and less, I just watch and when they are gone then I polishes until it is an even shine then I go to the next grit and do the same.

[@markgrissom]

Thanks Joe! r/s Mark

[@gingerpetrini6205]

I think you’ve got some pretty good information but you need to turn off the hillbilly music so I can hear it

[@efowble]

Don’t know if you check out your comments seeing this is an old video... but I just want to say to check out youtube user hangman1128 to see some petrified wood on a scale you can’t imagine. Have fun! The name of the video he has is... “the original forest” series of videos.

[@loganw6188]

nice

[@trptrungblogs]

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[@ghettobrown209]

Flat earthers!