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Posted 8/19/2008 9:30:13 AM
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well i'm a soap stone carver. i like it cause it's fairly easy work with a good outcome everytime. that and i dont need a whole lot of tools. all i use primarily is my swiss army knife, sand paper, nail buffers, and a hack saw. i use the knife, hack saw and sand paper for obvious reasons. soap stone is softer than even your finger nail so it would obviously work real easy with those tools alone. the nail buffers however you may have raised a brow to. i did it on a whim one night when i was making a turtle from stone. i gave it a wack with the buffer thinking about how it shines your nails and the results i got were great.

              my only problem is when it comes to the cracks and crevices that i need to get at. i am hoping that the dremel team sees this and considers it very seriously that i would like to see a new product line of dremel buffer bits in cone shapes or fine points even. the tip made of a spongy material and having it's own actual grit specifically for nails but works on soap stone. if you would need to see the results of my soap stone work from nail buffers then please contact me. i assure you it's nothing short of amazing what the nail buffers do to soap stone.

               granted the very same thing can be achieved just by carving it with the knife. if you only use the knife you now have a ton of flat edges from the knifes edge. after having done that you can use a fine sand paper to smooth out the edges, then the nail buffers to smooth out the sand paper and after all that. all you need is the oil in your fingers to rub the dust off and it's sooo smooth and shiny from it's own luster.

               again i hope the dremel team will seriously look this over cause i am more then willing to buy a ton of these if they seriously came out. alot of my work involves small areas that i cannot work with a nail buffer pad. the areas are just way to small to put some elbow grease into. and if i was to try it would take forever... aside from that it would be possible to break the piece i'm making, per say if it was a deer and i was trying to buff the antlers. not that i have, i wouldnt create such a thing unless i had these tools i'm requesting. i know i am but one voice, but i'm sure if other soap stone workers learned about nail buffers they would agree that it's a great idea.

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