From: "Frank Ward" 
To: "Russell Jocoy" 
Cc: 
Reply-To: "Frank Ward" 


 Russell, You said,

it's slow polishing is a plus as to figuring toward the finished parob. ,
as it moves the surface slowly as to give you "time" to make
corrections.
  Although it is very messy it is a fine polish..


 Yesterday I finished a 12" that had been polished with CEO well past the
"good polish" stage. As I neared completion of figuring (within a
1/10wave of my goal) I switched to black rouge, the same as red but finer.
It took several sessions to get all three figures in the place I wanted
them so I could use a full sized lap to bring them all in at once....and
during this time the luster on the surface increased at least 50% with the
black rouge, probably 30 minutes of actual contact. It is terribly messy,
but worth the trouble in the finer stages of figuring.

I'll know for sure how well I ended up when the clouds clear....but Fig45
says 1/23wave. Not too shabby after two years away. In the rarified
atmosphere
after 1/10th wave it becomes a lot of instinct and a lot less "follow
the rules."

Frank Ward
Atlanta, GA (rain again today) Mars must be causing it.

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