Diamond Pacific Nova Points offer a convenient way to quickly sand and polish gemstone and opal carvings with your Foredom or Dremel. Nova Points solve many gemstone carving challenges by offering the speed, high performance, and no mess of Diamond Pacific's legendary proprietary Nova resin-bond diamond formulas in 2 sizes of 2 Nova tips shapes for use on your carvings during the sanding and polishing processes. They are designed to avoid headaches while sanding those hard-to-reach areas to remove the coarse scratches from your latest lapidary masterpiece.
Specifications
Nova burs are slightly flexible and will wear away with use and abuse. Diamond Pacific Nova burs MUST be used with a lubricant like water orsilicone extender fluid.
Available Shapes and Sizes
Shank size of 3/32 inch which fits most Foredom and Dremel power rotary tools used ingemstone carving.
Small Bullet Pointis 7mm tapered to 4mm, pointed tip
Large Bullet Pointis 9mm tapered to 5mm, pointed tip
Small Rounded Cylinderis 8mm wide, round tip
Large Rounded Cylinderis 9.5mm wide, round tip
All are roughly 18-20mm tall, sizes vary slightly
Available diamond Nova Points Grits and Colors
Diamond Pacific Nova burs in pre-polish grits are available in a discounted SET of 4 Nova points containing of 1 each of the following Nova grit colors
280 grit- Black
600 grit- Brown
1200 grit- Grey
3000 grit- Rose
All Diamond Pacific Nova polishing points are also available in individual grits
60 grit- Green
100 grit- Lt Green
140 grit- Rust
280 grit- Black
600 grit- Brown
1200 grit- Grey
3000 grit- Rose
8000 grit- Tan
14000 grit- Cream
50000 grit- Lt Blue
Use
After a gemstone, custom body jewelry carver, or other lapidary artist creates a preform for a carving withsintered carving bursor your preferred sequence ofcarving bits, the go-to sequence of Nova bits for sanding and polishing many commercial lapidary materials with a Foredom or Dremel is the 280, 600, 1200, and 3,000 grit diamond polishing bits, followed by the use of a 14,000 grit Nova Point. A Dremel will need a #481 collet to fit these shafts, available for a few dollars at any hardware store selling Dremel accessories. While this sequence will put an acceptable polish on most stones, many hard-to-polish material may require more steps such as additional grit Nova burrs,Diamond Pacific Phenol points, orfelt burswith your favoritelapidary polishsuch astin oxide, orcerium oxide.
