8 inch Gazing Globe Mirror Ball,Polished Reflective Smooth Garden Ball Sphere,Colorful and Shiny Addition to Any Garden or Home Decoration,Silver Stainless Steel

Got this to sit on a old birdbath base. It has been blown off the base a few times by the wind and has rolled over my yard and still looks like new with no damage.

Wanted stainless steel, as the last gazing ball shattered when a tree fell on it. Looks great in the garden

I had a stray base to a birdbath that needed repurposing. This gazing ball was a perfect fit. Have it near my pool and it has a peaceful, calming effect. Went with this one for the affordable price. Glad I did. No need to over spend. The mirrored effect is totally intact but getting darker which I am fine with. Love it

Finally decided to cross a DIY project off my bucket list; an electrometer for Earth-science research. I have long wanted a metal sphere for this but didn't know how to get one affordably, so I let this project rot in my head for years. Finally just happened to run a search on Amazon and was surprised to find that these silly "gazing balls" for gardens and such are actually real metal. So, I ordered an 8 inch "silver" one and hope it would be suitable and not too heavy for the project.It arrived today and yep I'm actually pretty impressed. It's VERY lightweight. So lightweight that I could see it actually being an escapee in a windstorm, lol, but fortunately it'll be well fastened down for my project so I really don't care... in fact being so lightweight is a definite plus so it doesn't crush the box it'll be affixed to.The construction appears to me to be chrome plated steel, because it is very silvery, more so than I would have expected from even highly polished stainless, but what do I know really. The surface quality is a little bit uneven, which doesn't exactly surprise me given that it was only $20. For my purposes it's a big so what, and from any distance it looks like a very neat, accurate reflective sphere. The reflection itself is very good, very clean. There is a noticeable equatorial bump from where they clearly welded two half spheres together, but again that's not a terrible thing. If I were using this for decor, I'd line that seam up so that it was minimally visible and that would be that. Again from any distance, it would reasonably hard to notice.On to the important stuff - electrical properties!! I found it a little difficult to get good contact with multimeter probes but once I did I managed to read a low of just 2.5 ohms from side to side. That may be residual difficulty in getting good contact or it may be the meter itself, or perhaps stainless or the possible overcoating may simply exhibit some small resistance, but regardless it's fine for my purposes. I saw someone in the reviews asking about use for a Van De Graaf generator - I'd say emphatic yes, it'll work very well for that.One small concern I have - this feels as I mentioned, VERY light. Mine is 8" diameter and just 320 grams, or 0.7 pounds. That means it is very thin metal, and THAT means it's potentially delicate. Don't play football with the thing and I think you'll be fine. Make sure you've affixed it to some kind of supportive surface so it doesn't try to go wandering in a storm, and you'll be good to go.One last thing... Since I am using this as an antenna, I need a solid connection to the metal. I dabbed a tiny spot of regular hardware store solding flux paste onto the desired spot on the sphere and hit it with good electronic solder and my Weller pencil iron turned up to max heat, and in seconds I had a very nice solder weld to the spot. Stainless is a terrible heat conductor, so it doesn't take much applied spot heat to get it crazy hot in that spot. Easy peasy and I didn't have to drill to get my connection. That's a big yay. Now it's on to designing the electrometer transimpedance amp and I'm good to go for testing. Maybe I'll come back in the future and post some pics of it once (if) it all goes well. Final result will go outside on my back porch rooftop, so I need to go to lengths to weatherproof and all that, but if it works like I want, it'll be pretty amazing. It'll be added to all my other 24/7 Earth science graphs on my website, alongside such craziness as my SBM-19 Geiger counter and my Earth magnetic field listener. Crossing fingers for a win for 2024, hoo-ah!NR417

I was concerned that this 6" orb would have an unsightly seam where the 2 halves meet, but it is fine. There is a very faint awareness of a connection, but you have to be very close to discern it. It has a few thin, tiny marks that are also not an issue when you look at it from 12" away. For the price, I am genuinely pleased with this purchase and would order from this store again. It arrived, on time, well wrapped in plastic to protect the finish, and inside a protective box.

I was expecting the surface of the globe to be more optically perfect than it is.Sadly the surface is covered with really fine scratches which show up under bright reflections. Probably the result of less than quality polishing of the surface. (see photo)There are place around the globe where the polishing defects show as permanent smudges that don't clean out and the seam where the two halves of the globe join is evident around the globe because of poor finishing of the weld.This globe was purchased with the intent of using it as a quality image reflector for closeup & medium closeup photography. It does not meet those expectations.

Very pleased and surprised by the quality of this globe. Much nicer then expected.

The ball came with three very noticeable indents where the ball was sealed at the seams. I need this for art projects and the defects make this a waste of money. Haven't had it long enough to test durability. It is lightweight. I did return the first one and got another one. Regrettably, the crack/seam is even worse! First 4 pics are the 1st ball. Last 2 pics are of the 2nd ball. Product is garbage. Returning it and not exchanging anymore. The only positive things I can say is that (1) shipping was fast and arrived early,(2) I am returning it and getting a full refund.

Lo usaré para decorar un espacio bajo las escaleras acompañado con piedras de río 🤗

Super bien es tal cual como la describe y el tamaño si es..!!!

MUY BUEN ACABADO, ACERO INOXIDABLE AL ALTO BRILLO, MUY DECORATIVA; TOTALMENTE RECOMENDABLE

Muy bien algunas un poco maltratada pero bien 👍 llego muy rápida creo que eso también importa mucho . Volveré a pedir . Gracias 🙂