Drilling,holes,beach,stones,us DIY Drilling holes in beach stones to use for beads
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Whendrilling beach stones, I would suggest you avoid the advice about buying thebest drill bit you can find. When drilling stone, diamond bits wear outquickly, whether you buy the twisted ones (expensive) or the straight ones (farless expensive.) So go for the straight ones. I'dsuggest you go for the economy diamond cylinder drill packs from Rio. They come 25 in a pack and cost less than a buckeach, compared to $2 or $4 each for twist bits. You can get through fiveor six stones with a single bit if the stones are not too hard. Startyour hole with a diamond ball burr, say 1 mm Hold the stone underwater withyour hands in a small plastic bin, like Tupperware or glad disposable. Make asmall, round divot in the stone. Onceyou have a achieved a small divot, drill through the stone in with yourcylinder diamond drill bit. Unless your stone is very small, avoid any bit lessthan 1 mm. The .75 mm bits have a tiny shaft and break often. The 1 mm bitshave a reasonably strong shaft.To make sure you don't drill through the bottom of your container, put acouple of pop sickle sticks under your stone. Hold the stone under water, ontop of the pop sticks. Use clear water so you can see what you are doing. Thetop of the stone should be just barely under water. As you drill, a longtail of dust will drift off from your stone in the water. Press a little,pull back a little, and get a rhythm going. When you get 4/5ths of the waythrough, turn the stone over to see where the hole is going to come out. Markit with a sharpie, knick that place with a ball bur and start drilling from theback. When the hole meets the other side, everything else becomes easy. Widenthe hole with successively larger (cheap) diamond drill bits, drilling underwater. I find a 2.5 mm hole holds a nice rivet and makes a nice pendant.
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