I am building a countertop out of beautiful black marble with white mixed in it. It looks great. The problem is that the edges that we cut are not highly polished like the rest. I tried to use a sealer to get them to produce the wet look, but that doesn’t work. WHAT AM I TO DO? How do I get the cut edges to look like the rest?
Thanks in advance.
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look ebay for diamond polishing pads,cost about 4.00 each.plus buy a velcroe pad to stick them to.use your 4.5 grinder and polish away. larry
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Marble is soft enough that it is easily polished with silicon carbide sandpaper. Start around 180, go easy, and work up to 400 or 600 wet. You can easily get 1200 at a car parts store in their paint section.
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The answer is that you are going to have to polish the edges.
Hopefully someone here will fill you in on how and what to accomplish this.
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I've sanded the edges with the finest wet dry sandp[aper I could find...I forget but it was way over a 300 grit. then I polished them with a car simonize and it lookewd as good as the factory finish.
Its just a matter of polishing polishing polishing!
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Marble is readily polished. You need the right tools, and a succession of abrasives, getting finer and finer, finishing with a rouge-like powder mixed in a slurry. You cannot just paint a polish on, as you would your fingernails.
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Unlike granite, marble is soft and easy to polish, lots of w/d sandpaper in increasing grits and elbow grease. Your biggest challenge may be cutting through whatever you've painted on the edges already in an effort to achieve that "wet look" Be careful if you decide to use an electric sander, grinder or buffer though, you can take off too much in a hurry so go slow!
Thank you all very much for your help. This kind of advice is not very common around here. There are not any many stone workers in my area. Thanks.
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