I had thought or think Ive seen orange peel more from over powder polishing than over honing with resins.  Is this a wrong thought process?  I mean, don’t they mechanically finish tiles at the factory and not even use a powder process? 

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On Jan 24, 2018, at 1:36 PM, Fred Hueston <fhueston@gmail.com> wrote:

Orange peel is usually the result of over polishing. To remove it rehone with a 400 and repolish. You may find it helpful to not go so high on your hones as well. Most marble should be able to be polished at 400-800. Use a little powder and work slowly checking your work as you go.

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On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 2:05 PM, Stuart Young <santafefc@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
We did a job removing etching from a white marble countertop.  My results seem to vary from job to job on surfaces like this - sometimes I will get a beautiful glass-like polish and other times it will appear like a fine “orange peel” effect when you do a close inspection, and usually the reflection off the veining seems to be more apparent.  Granted, I've never had a client be unhappy with the results, but I feel I should be able to more consistently get a more crisp reflection with a factory finish.  Typically I will work on individual etch spots (if they are deep) with sandpaper or flex-diamond pads, hone things up to 800-1500, and polish with either 5x or MB12.  In this case, I pretty much had to hone the entire surface because the whole surface was pretty beat up.  

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