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Post by glennz01 on Feb 8, 2015 1:40:54 GMT -5
Well I am starting to clean some of my new tumbles... I have around 80 or so lbs of polished rock (over 2 full medium flat rate boxes) to clean so photos will be slow to come. Most of the stones aren't what most people would call perfect tumbles but I like to have some natural aspect to them. heres some pics and you can expect updates at later dates.
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riverrock
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Post by riverrock on Feb 8, 2015 9:46:48 GMT -5
They are your stones. , tumble them the way you like them.
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Post by glennz01 on Feb 8, 2015 16:15:15 GMT -5
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Post by gingerkid on Feb 8, 2015 16:21:27 GMT -5
Nice tumbles, glennz01! I really like the local rhyolite (?) material, your favorite of the bunch and the green jasper. Which tumbler did you use to tumble these?
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Post by glennz01 on Feb 8, 2015 17:52:20 GMT -5
Nice tumbles, glennz01! I really like the local rhyolite (?) material, your favorite of the bunch and the green jasper. Which tumbler did you use to tumble these? I used both my 40 and 12 lb tumblers... I have 1 more batch running in the tumblers that I need to take out eventually.. They have been running for over 2 weeks in final polish because I haven't had time to take the rock out.. I'm thinking of taking the rock out tuesday.
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Post by captbob on Feb 8, 2015 18:11:03 GMT -5
2nd to last pic (green jasper) very nice. Is there a name for this jasper that you know? Is it a type local to you?
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Post by glennz01 on Feb 8, 2015 21:12:33 GMT -5
2nd to last pic (green jasper) very nice. Is there a name for this jasper that you know? Is it a type local to you? Yeah its local, found it on a river walk about 100 miles away. There is no name for the jasper that I know of, most likely no one knows the source ether. I wish I could find more of it, would make for great pendants.
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Post by snowmom on Feb 9, 2015 5:20:30 GMT -5
you've got some really nice complex and colorful stuff there, super nice variety. Some of those Jaspers are very appealing. In the second set of pictures, #11 on the left side, are those sparklers in that rock, or partially filled vugs? Do you have a picture of what that rock looked like before you polished it? very interesting! Thanks for the show!
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Post by glennz01 on Feb 9, 2015 19:35:43 GMT -5
you've got some really nice complex and colorful stuff there, super nice variety. Some of those Jaspers are very appealing. In the second set of pictures, #11 on the left side, are those sparklers in that rock, or partially filled vugs? Do you have a picture of what that rock looked like before you polished it? very interesting! Thanks for the show! Yeah, most of this stuff is ether only tumble grade or lapidary grade that has/ had too many cracks or holes in it to work with... or its simply too small to work. Some of the red jaspers I could work but I have some better quality rocks I could use. I have a large 5 lb piece of mix dark and bright red and yellow jasper I will be sending to fwfranklen (Mike) in his box. I cut it ones and decided that its not worth my time to deal with when I have other stuff I would rather use. I guess i'm just picky when it comes to what I call lapidary quality since its easy to find colorful rocks that to most people would go crazy over (depending where they live) What you were looking at in the photo are voids in the rock. I don't have any before photos that I know of. I started rough tumbling these rocks around October. When I get everything cleaned i'll take a photo of everything.
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Post by glennz01 on Feb 10, 2015 2:11:35 GMT -5
Well I have a before photo of at least one of the things shown... Most of what is in this pic I kept as is or for lapidary.
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Post by glennz01 on Feb 11, 2015 1:32:52 GMT -5
for photos 3 and 12 in the 2nd posting of photos... what would you name that type of jasper.... i'm thinking tree bark jasper.
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Post by glennz01 on Feb 18, 2015 3:39:40 GMT -5
Don't have pics yet but the tumbles out of my new batch are really nicer.... leaving them in tumble for 3 weeks gave almost everything a really high polish.
I haven't even finished cleaning the old batch yet though -,-
On a side note I haved started slabbing again so i'll have more slab pics at a later date
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unclesoska
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Post by unclesoska on Feb 18, 2015 12:50:09 GMT -5
Glenn- Have you ever tried a final Borax burnishing cycle after your polishing run? If you did this, there would be no need to "clean" all those rocks.
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Post by deb193redux on Feb 18, 2015 13:40:28 GMT -5
for photos 3 and 12 in the 2nd posting of photos... what would you name that type of jasper.... I'm thinking tree bark jasper. I understood "tree bark" to be a trade name for some jasper (actually rhyolite) brought to market from Utah. I did not think it was a kind generally, although it does work as a descriptive term.
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Post by glennz01 on Feb 18, 2015 22:24:14 GMT -5
for photos 3 and 12 in the 2nd posting of photos... what would you name that type of jasper.... I'm thinking tree bark jasper. I understood "tree bark" to be a trade name for some jasper (actually rhyolite) brought to market from Utah. I did not think it was a kind generally, although it does work as a descriptive term. i'm not really sure what to name it... there is well over 100,000 lbs of it.. not all looks like my photos. not really sure what it is but jasper is the closest thing ive been told... i'm just wanting to name it since it is unique. I have not tried burnishing before how long would you let it run for burnish (in a 40 lb tumbler)also what would I use besides lots of soap?
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unclesoska
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Post by unclesoska on Feb 19, 2015 1:11:36 GMT -5
I have no experience w/ a 40# tumbler, maybe JamesP or some other experts will chime in. Borax is what you need, look in store where you buy your laundry detergent, it's usually on the bottom shelf- 20 Mule Team BORAX.
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quartz
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Post by quartz on Feb 19, 2015 15:23:24 GMT -5
We run 50# barrels, generally let burnish run 7-10 days, as you said, lots of soap, and we pad with 20-30% leather cut into 1-1 1/2" pieces. A lot of people believe the burnish is only a cleaning cycle, our thought on it is that it also adds a bit of finish improvement to the rocks, try it and make up your own mind.
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Post by glennz01 on Feb 19, 2015 18:15:37 GMT -5
I always noticed that hand cleaning them with a dry washcloth (that never gets cleaned)tends to give the material a higher gloss finish.
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Post by glennz01 on Mar 1, 2015 14:13:07 GMT -5
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