Post #257168 by Tamapoutini on Tue, Sep 26, 2006 9:16 PM

Yep, the fingers must suffer... I imagine wearing latex gloves would kill a lot of the 'feel' of working your stone. (nice looking jade by the way! 'Nephrite jade' most likely, Wyoming? Californian? British Colombian?) After a while most jade carvers learn to 'feel' a shape through whatever tool is being used, as well as using visual clues (*watch how the light/reflections and/or shadows play over a surface as the piece is moved...)

If you sand up to about 1200grit you should have a decent pre-polish finish, at which point you can either polish with an electric buff & tin-oxide paste, or else call it finished & give it a light 'wipe on-wipe off' with baby-oil, leather wax or similar...

Im sure it will look great when done! Nice one! T3