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Old 14-07-2008   #8
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Default Re: finishing travertine to high standard what do you do?

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Originally Posted by hardy View Post
Looking for information on edge finishing and pictures on how to finish travertine edges, currently i sand with different grades and fill the edges seems to be long hard job and takes a lot of time some darker coloured travertine it marks the face and i struggle to get it back to origional honed and filled finish. What does everbody else do? look forward to your coments.
Steve
No real easy way of doing it, you either work by hand or use an angle grinder with different grit pads starting at 100 grit and 200, 400, 800, 1500, 3000 grit depending on the hardness of the stone you might get a satisfactory polish at the end of using 800 grit.

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