How to use CD or DVD disks to polish gemstones! Lapidary 

Way back in the day, AOL used to send disks every week, in nice tins. That's all they were good for, gem polishing.

I am a newbie on this topic - but i like unconventional ideas reusing whats already available. So i give you a big big thumbs up! Nice video!

I have not heard of this but it 100% makes sense. Wow, this is such a good idea! Thank you so much, definitely going to try this!

I can’t wait to try this

Wow!! You learn something new everyday. Thanks for showing your craft.

Very well presented. I’ll definitely try this. Thank you.

Lovely finish product. Good work

I don't know if you are going to read this but thank you for posting this. I am new to Faceting and I tried out this method and it works for me as I don't have much money to buy new polishing laps. Maybe once I get better I'll buy some new polishing laps.

THat's great!I am saving this idea!THanks!

Thx for posting. Very useful info.Happy Holidays!

Thank you So Much for sharing your knowledge and expertise. You’ve inspired me . God Bless You as Well.✌️😎👍

I going to try to start in this world, just to (try) make my diamond stylus because i really need it faster and better and i can find anyone who make it, so i start to study about with everything i can find.. so God bless YOU for give this tip and video for everyone! You are a gem sr.

Hy Angelo, just wanted to mention my solution for an issue i came across while polishing the girdle of a small stone with this method. Because the master lap is much bigger in diameter than the cd i had the Problem that i can't polish the girdle because the dopstick was not long enough. The dopstick allways touched the master lap befor the stone touched the cd. At first i stuck 2-3 cds over each other but than i got an even better idea. I bought the thickest piece of acrylic glas i found at a craft store that was about 500mm By 250mm (thickness about 6 mm or so), cut it in half, drilled a hole in the middle of both halfs to fit on my maschine (14mm in my case), turned the maschine on and hold a more or les sharp thing against the acrylic glas where the master lap ends till i could break the unwanted edges out to get it to be round (if that description makes sence?) Now i have 2 pieces of “cd Material“ that are as large as my master lap for polishing and they work perfect!

I tried CD for opal stone, nice result!

Beautiful result!

Truly awesome idea, thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing, i did both you earned it.

That was abselutely fantastic.. cause i am one of germstone fan, any germstone... and thank you for information... 🙏🙏

LOVE THIS!!! God bless you too darling :)

Oh man thank you soo much for this tip. It's really great. I will try that tomorrow 😉👍🏻🙏🏻

Last week I was trying in poloshing a small apatite. On ultralap and cerium some result with High speed and more water running than I wouold had expectec. Then suddenly bad schraches. Changed ultralap but again schraches. Then I remember this video and i try DVD+ diamond powder and coconut oil. It polish Like Beryl on copper, easy and fast! Thanks!

Thank you for sharing you tips wiht us , God bless.

Muy buen tip, gracias por el video.

Great vid. I cut gems and have a few gem cutting vids on my channel. Yes using the Cd method has been around for awhile. The rewritable cds have a softer surface than a standard prerecorded music cd which has a harder surface, which should work even better. I like the lucite discs with cerium oxide. Ultra laps are excellent but adds more to the cost for those who facet for a hobby. Well done on making this interesting video.

Amazing! Would love to learn some more from you

Thank you your video really has been most helpful to me. Hope to ask questions in the future as I see how stones come out.

Very good idea sir thanks God belss you.👍👍👍💓💖💪

Great video buddy

Always watching sir very imformative i learn so much thank you for sharing 😍😍😍😊😊😊😊

Very interesting. Thank you.

Excellent job sir, please advice if instead of using diamond powder for prepolishing

Well done!

A useful reuse/recycle tip in addition to being innovative! Lovely! And your voice and accent i think are the best. ;~}} Thank you.

Very beautiful talent thank you very much 💞

very nice and very good sir

Soo pretty, very nice vedio!!

its very nice idea, thank you so much, you help me so much, im using it on succesful

I have heard of this before but I thought it was bs until I saw it. That is neat because I now have a use for my old drds ans cds. Thanks

Wow! Just wow! 😮😮😮 💎💎💎

Wow! I'll give it a try.

Very cool, subbed

Thanks for the tip!

You are epic with this toothpaste! Thanks :)

No;1 sir Thanks

Lindo trabalho parabens amigo

That was cool ♥

I like very much, congratulations for the idea. What is the RPM used? Do you have the project for the stone hold device used?

Excellent thank you that was awesome 🙏🙏

Интересное решение, оригинально. Спасибо :-)

Wow I didn't know that thanks for this knowledge

You look like Iron Man, even more handsome 😊

Awesome video question what is the liquid you have dripping into the cd

Thank you !!! I will try it absolutely! Nice idea to use my old Cds and great for us who do facet as hobby with not so many money to spend!

Its important to use the proper genre music CD for this - Rock music

Thank u showing but may I know which powder and oil are you using sir and can u tell first what to do with rough gemstone to make sparkle

Thanks

Excellent

Excelent !!!!!

Bravo!!!👏👏👏

Thanks great info

Muito bom gostaria de exercer essa profissão

Thank you very nice

Thank you

God Bless you too.

Good idea.

Thank U Brother!!

Some o rings or washers from harbor freight or any hardware store would be a good idea to actually keep centered

nice method !! if you have other trick for faceting cause i haven't faceting machine thanks!!

Thank you for this information. Now All I need is to actually get some equiptment.. LOL

Thanks so much very you.

THANK U BEAUTIFUL!

this good idea bro i can do it thanks

Cool 😊

This is fascinating l!

Will this get rid of the scratches on my CDs?

wowww i see n great job .. very god idea dude :)

Hy Angelo. At first I was just thankful about getting the clue with the CD, which brought me to the idea to use self-made plexiglass discs, and finally getting a really good and cheap lap for the finish polish. After some time (since I last commented on this video) I now know exactly what you meant as you said that this method can't replace other methods completely because of the time it takes to get the facets polished. The polishing takes almost 300% of the time it takes to cut and prepolish the facets (I always cut the most facets with 3000 grit, so I can skip the prepolishing, at least on quartz). So the productivity is very limited with only using plexiglass laps. Now, where can I buy the ultralaps you mentioned? Google search only spit out some articles about the laps being great, but I can't find a source to buy them. Also, I heard that nubond laps are no longer available, is there an alternative you can recommend? Thanks a lot. Have a nice day.

What speed or RPM motor are you using? Please

Im going to try the acetone tip tonight. I have a sunstone dopped and have been having some trouble getting the table to polish as nice as the pavilion facets did.

I would suggest that the diamond paste is doing all the grinding and the toothpaste is just for video attention-grabbing.

Hola Angelo que es la crema blanca que pones sobre el disco al comenzar? What is the white cream? Thanks

Bom Dia Amigo Isto E cd E Isso Vc E Bom Em Parabens

Hello dear friend. Does this method also work for diamonds or only for stones whose hardness is lower than diamonds?

kept waiting for you to say April Fools. i really like the toothpaste idea, most toothpaste contains Aluminum Oxide which is a very hard material (Mohs 9) and the sticky viscosity would keep it (and added polish) from just flying off the disk. Thanks for sharing.

polish agent applied in gems Fe2O3 as Hematite due to temperature for Topaz

I did the polish with the CD and it works really good. Is like using an spectra lap. Thank you so much for the info. The only question I have is how you do to make the CD be paralel to the master lap, so it wont create extra facets or concave facets.. Thanks

Thank you very much for your teaching , the make the use of DVD , is this black stone is Shungite?

can a dremel work with this procedure?

Thanks for the great idea. I am struggling with a way to polish a hole and after your video i have the idea to try to use teflon. At least instrument made out of it. It has a high melting temperature and it is easy to carv so to make tool wil be easy. By te way if some one have done some thing like that before, i am open to suggestions. thank you

Would this work for garnets?

Hey Angelo, thank you for this usefull trick. One question: im currently working on a more softer and fragile stone (like florite, but yellow) and it seems like the ceroxide on the cd is scratching the facets. What Tools should i use for this type of stones? I am in “trying and buying new stuff“-Mode to get better results, but don't know what to do with this particular stone. It seems that diamond powder (0-1/2 micron) is bringing better results, but maybe a cd is the false option?

It is a very dark bright pink. It doesn't even have any clear quartz strips in it. It is nearly a perfect rose quartz sphere. I feel like I cant breathe.

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Excellent thanks for sharing like to strengthen Hug

Lol. Most gem guys take such a long time with all these "tricks" or "shortcuts" that they have , but yours is easily the longest. 15 min for one side? And you have to do it twice. 6 sides would come out to an hour and a half. Times two. Not counting the two hours set up time. Yeah. One gemstone in a 10 hour shift. Very helpful. Lol

Nice work.

Wow

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Considering the condition my dvd's are usually returned in, i now know what my friends have been doing with them.

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