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My husband says he would like if you did a whole series of builds! Thank you for that empowerment to DIY lapidary equipment!

Thank you for making the prints available. Yaller good people

I really appreciate you helping us all to be able to affordibly build cool equipment! Thank you Jared!

Sweet piece homemade equipment!

I literally just bought some carpet for a new addition to my rock shop - an old vibratory flat lap! I'll show Jim this video - he may enjoy making a DIY polisher.

Fantastic idea 👍👍 I'm 65 years old been a tinker all my life. And I'm just starting a lapidary shop. So you have been a great help. Thanks.

You are such a smart, good and honest person Jared. Everyone here should appreciate just how much you do to help us all, in every way you can. I appreciate everything you and Sarah do for the rockhounding community. Thanks for a great video and doing what you both do! Take care.✌🤠

Thanks very much for the plans! Just so you know in the blue prints it calls for a smooth rod.

Those new parts are starting to get expensive...I used to find them cheap at flea markets and other places. I'm looking at modifying my tile saw and making a polisher like yours except all metal. I have my own welder but for others that don't; there are hobby places that have the equipment and people that can show. Where I live there's not much Rockhounding but every farmer have welders and spare parts laying around to make something like that for nothing. You are right! Most people can't afford off the shelf items...there are ways around it cheap and safe. Thanks again for posting this for the community! 👍🍻

Appreciate your efforts to help make this hobby affordable.

I've just started polishing with diamond pads on an angle grinder. Watching this video gave me the idea to attach velcro to carpet to use on the pad holder.

Loved the intro! I use cerium oxide on a nice, soft piece of Italian leather. Put stone on dop stick and rub. Doesn't take long at all. Carpet wheel is great. Definitely need one for bigger rocks.

This is exactly what I have to do right now. Been looking for a polisher so I can do this. Thanks it’s like you read my mind.

First, sorry cannot watch right now, heading across town for an appointment but will catch up with it when I get back...really love the splash guard~~

Gotta love the DIY! Nice work Jared! Now for the next build, a waterjet? LOL Awesome

As a DIY'er myself I love the simplicity of this. I am thinking with the proper shaft and surface plate and oriented on a horizontal plane this could make a great flat lap machine. With the obvious modifications such as a water supply, pump and drain pan etc. Seems like a good winter project.

Love it! Definitely making one of these

Another great show! Maybe have another wheel with some thick long shag carpet from the 70's for a buffing wheel.

I liked it the when you first showed it to us. I love the idea of more DIY in the land of rocks. Thanks for sharing and thank you Frank for doing it for him. The drawings look great. Keep the fun coming. Be happy, safe and stay healthy 😷⚒

Currently working on a 10” lap wheel. More like an accessory driven by a small wood lathe. Gotta use what you have😂

Hi Jarod, another very interesting video with your explanation of the polisher being quite easy to understand. I like not only the concept but the way you have made it from easy to obtain components. Thanks. Keep Safe & Keep Rockin

Nice buffer/polishing wheel. Thanks, I love homemade!

Great Video as always :)

Man I really hope you do some more amazing stuff like this, keep up the great work

Outstanding content!

Awesome project! I was surprised at how quiet it is. Nice polish too!

that was cool! wish i had the skills to do things like this, that is a beautiful rock you did, my adopted grand pa built my grand ma`s machines for her back in the early 70s right after they got a place where my grand ma could have a shop,,, your right about those old timey machines that had the fancy brass pieces and designs to bad things arent built like that any more

I have been thinking about building one since I saw it the first time in one of your videos , I was racking my brain how to get the carpet on and you answered all of my question ... Your videos are always amazing .

This was a very inspirational. I love trying to figure out alternative ways of doing things. I run my 6" lapidary disc's on my porter cable grinder.

Yes I would, please. Plan to order parts the net few months. 60ty year'es young women in Dayton NV

Great tool

Thanks Jared for sharing your experience and knowledge.

Thanks for the DIY content. Awesome work!

I watched a video... someone was using a polisher/sander as a flat lap, on their lap... tilting it as needed. Thought that was a pretty interesting & inexpensive idea.

I just finished my angled flat lap, very easy and fun. Nice design wheel

Love this! You're very resourceful, Jared. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome video as always, I love the cerium for polishing, because it’s so easy to work with and the results are stunning. Great design on the wheel!

You should be proud of that thing, love it!

Love that you build and share! Open source is great. Thanks 👍

Awesome little machine, good job man, thanks for sharing!

First thanks for posting and sharing! Much appreciated~👍IMO you really did a super job with this homebuild buffer! Kudos sir~ Now onto the things I noticed right away, I love splash guard, really great addition to the buffing wheel and think I'll be modifying my unit in the near future to add such a great feature thx. I also like the concept of the shortened tabletop footprint of your design (looks about 10" shorter in overall length) but that concerns me a bit as I really like the slow buffer as it generates virtually no heat when buffing on the leather wheel and fewer "grabbed" pieces....Would assume that due to the short distance between the motor pulley and the large pulley it appears that your buffer may be spinning faster than the slow buffer I use? (18" distance between pulley centers 12" and 1" pulleys with motor at 1725 = 143.8RPM) It appeared you used a 12" wheel pulley and 1" motor pulley the same as me. Question...what is the distance between pulley centers on your unit and are you using a 1725RPM motor? On a bummer note, I'm going to have to get a new driveshaft manufactured for the 18" Royal...there's a 1/2" long flat spot in the threads right at the key spot on the shaft that running through a die won't correct...ugh!!! 🤦‍♂So when it warms up in March will tear it apart again to rebuild once more. Doh~ Ultimately, I may end up swapping the 3/4hp motor on the Royal during rebuild with the 1hp motor on the bullwheel to see if there's any difference. Thanks again for your efforts my friend, hope you have a great rest of your week~

Crafty! That buff was really glassy.

Great video. I will copy-cat yours and build my own soon. Thanks for producing this.

Excellent video. Great plan. Thanks for sharing

Thanks!

Very cool equipment love it thank you for sharing 😊💙

Please please build an oil saw! I'm in the middle of setting up a small lapidary business. Oil cells are way too expensive for my blood. But I need one badly LOL

Thanks much for sharing with us 😊

I made one with parts from a furnace blower. I got the idea from your video. Thanks Don't know how to put pics on here or I would show it to you.

To everything turn turn turn There is a season turn turn turn (1965 The Byrds)

Thanks, being on social security makes it difficult to have equipment. More maker plans and ideas will be much appreciated!

Thank you Jared! This is something I can do. And as a single woman that is a big deal. I would like to find the blue print for a mini pixie.

So the key stock goes in at the motor, wheel, both pillow bearings, and the end with the steel plate? Right?

Working on a similar project but ran into a hiccup. The carpet was so old that it each of the tension points has torn. Do you have an suggestions on where to find or buy carpet remnants? Enjoying your videos. Keep up the great work!!!

Dang, that looks super awesome! You are quite crafty. Looks pretty straightforward, even the electrical. Curious, how much you spent in supplies, not including the cerium oxide power, roughly? And, looks like it worked great. Thanks for sharing. You make great points in your discussion. Always so informative 😁👍

I am in the Toronto area and having a terrible time trying to get lap . equipment or suplies

You really do leave us with no excuse.

I’ve built something similar and I’m currently looking for carpet, does the type of carpet you use matter? Would you want a soft, fine thread or something a little more coarse? Appreciate any advice!

OK I know a million questions! About how long would you say the finished length of rod is on your machine?

Quick questions: Are the pillow blocks *both* supposed to come with set screws? I noticed you have an additional block under your pillow block supports that isn't in the plans...Is that just a height adjustment. I'm about 75% there (waiting on metal disc)...Just at the point of working out the placement of the different parts on the main board before I figure out what size belt to order.

I bought a homemade buffer from a friend and never could get it to shine cabs, it ran directly off the motor shaft and I think it turned way to fast

It's perfect. I just hope you are using stain resistant carpet. LOL just kidding. I have upcoming stuff im going to literally build out of junk ill share when I get around to it.

where do you get your cerium oxide ??

I would suggest people go and look at the Richardson’s polisher. Their open design is better for a number of reasons. Enclosing the wheel like you have greatly limits it’s usefulness compared their design.

Hey brother, do you think that I could use a blender and modify it to create a flat lap?

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