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All I've been doing is tumbling through the coarse stage. I had to get a new boot gasket, the old one had a puncture. Been constantly pulling and putting in new rough to keep the cycle going. Not enough funds to get a new tumbler this month. Spent $21 on 2.5 lbs. of carnelian, free shipping. Order included a piece of citrine, moss agate, something IDK, and a 10% discount coupon on orders of $75 or more. Wonderful. Gems by Mail, to the rescue. I ain't gonna use the coupon. Some lucky guy or gal can use it.
The tumbles.
Some agate/chalcedony, whatever.
Petrified wood conglomerate from southern CA. I broke the original rock into tumble size pieces. Gotta be gentle with them, it appears.
Another conglomerate of agate/jasper. Good motif. Poor camera. Also from southern CA. A little green in there. Not the best, but different.
Some rough carnelian from the package. Started a few on the coarse grind. Pretty stuff.
That's all, folks.
Gimme all your rocks! ... lol just kidding. I'm not that greedy.
I have ground a lot of pounds of rough like those first two types all the way down to sand trying to get the pits out, only to uncover more every time I got rid of some. You probably are not going to get flawless rounded shapes that can get glossy all over from those rocks. Probably best, if you want to polish it, to stop after you've gotten the larger chipped spots smoothed out. You're almost there.
What I do now when I see that kind of rock is take a hammer to it, in the hope that there will be some pieces that are not riddled with channels and bubbles. Also, I think big pieces like that contribute to knocking chips off of other rocks in the barrel.
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