One of the high points of the trip… Beyond just being with family… Was the game taught me to cut, grind and polished stone. I made my first bear birdbath under his expert tutelage.… First I had to find the right stone… Then I had to crisscross it with cuts from a diamond cut off wheel. From that I had to knock The things I cut out with a rock chisel and hammer… To basically shape the rough parts of a bowl. From that I used a 30 grade diamond grinding bit to take down all the roughness that the chiseling have left. From that point it was a progression of 100 to 200 to 500 to 1000 to 1500 to 3000 to buffing Using a water cooled electric grinder…

Hard work… Loud, messy and noisy…

It was heavenly !

Nite all, nite sam

-me