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Post by Cher on Aug 24, 2004 19:40:17 GMT -5
[glow=greeen,2,300]I am tumbling!!![/glow] Just started my first batch ... Think I'm maybe a bit tooo excited! [glow=red,4,300]LOL[/glow] Thanks for all of your help, I really appreciate it. Cookie, the quartz you sent me was first in the barrel. Thanks so much!! Cher
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Post by krazydiamond on Aug 24, 2004 19:45:25 GMT -5
you have officially joined this madness, welcome to the insanity.
WAY TO GO! KD
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Post by hermatite on Aug 24, 2004 19:47:33 GMT -5
You know what they say...once you go quartz, you never go back! have fun and let's be careful out there.
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Post by Cher on Aug 24, 2004 19:55:41 GMT -5
Oh no ;D lol did I start backwards? Why is it that "once you do quartz you never go back?" Does it turn out that nice? I haven't picked up that much quartz and what I do have is going to Alabama. Hmmm guess I'd best get out in the dirt again.
Cher
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Post by krazydiamond on Aug 24, 2004 20:04:28 GMT -5
your love of all rocks will intensify and you will crave all rocks of every flavor as a woman that needs chocolate and ice cream NOW.
well, maybe i equate some addictions to others.....hmmmmmm...but thats just ME, KD
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Post by cookie3rocks on Aug 24, 2004 20:08:46 GMT -5
Congratulations, Cher, you are officily hooked Before you know it, you will be planning your vacations around rock hounding trips (or is that just me?) Hope that quartz serves you well. Now let them roll as long as they need to, OK? I know you'll want to look at them every 15 mins. or so, but a watched tumbler never shines, or something like that. Good Luck! P.S. Hemetite would be great, thanks cookie
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Post by hermatite on Aug 24, 2004 20:57:02 GMT -5
Well I was paraphrasing that whole Quartz thing... but let me put it this way, there are few things in life as fine as running your hands through a bowl of rocks that are smooth and shiney and that you did yourself. It's just you and the rocks (and maybe, depending on your bent, God). It's simple and it's grand all at the same time. Have fun!
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Post by Cher on Aug 24, 2004 21:06:01 GMT -5
Hehehehe ... I don't think I could have found a better group of tumblers to hang with either. Cookie, I'll send you a big one you can whack it yourself and make them whatever size you want. OK? I'll see if I can find some smaller pieces of Minnesota quartz to send you too. LOL I haven't gone and looked yet, but I've been over to the top of the stairs about 800 times just listening to it roll. I told myself I cannot open it for at least 48 hours. There is one piece in there that's pretty smooth already but has a small mark on it so I want to watch that one. Good excuse huh?? Cher PS .... I just told hubby I want a vacation to NC to go to the mines and he said "I don't think so"!! Anyone got any extra "rock hounding blood" I can inject in him?
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Post by cookie3rocks on Aug 24, 2004 22:26:13 GMT -5
I'll send pics when I get back. Maybe that'll work cookie
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deepsouth
fully equipped rock polisher
He who rocks last rocks best
Member since January 2004
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Post by deepsouth on Aug 24, 2004 23:58:40 GMT -5
Congatulations Cher on rolling your tumbler.
If you look long enough at the action ,you may get hipnoticed and you won't be able to let go until you have had a peep inside.......WOW that is realy pulling yo upstairs a lot ;D
Yes , quartz is a nice rock to start with . I still include them every now and then with a batch. Never tire of it .
Have fun
Jack
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MoonStone
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by MoonStone on Aug 25, 2004 0:15:48 GMT -5
Great Cher!!! Congratulations ! I just discovered that you are starting tumbling today too!!! We will have the same tumbling aniversary ;D ;D ;D In about a month we will both have a new batch of rock beauties to brag about! I will be taking pictures and showing them I hope that you do the same as well!
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Post by Cher on Aug 25, 2004 8:28:22 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I'll be taking pics like crazy. Get the feeling this is going to seem like a really slow month so I'm packin off to the rock hole to look for some fancy quartz. Gotta grather while the sun shines and before the snow hits the ground.
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Post by sandsman1 on Aug 25, 2004 9:34:48 GMT -5
THANKS HERM I JUST SPIT COFFEE ALL OVER THE SCREEN HAHAHAH too friggin funny you cought me off guard
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bcbunny
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by bcbunny on Aug 25, 2004 10:34:20 GMT -5
Hopefully by the end of this weekend I can say that I have started my first batch, I have everything ready to go, just have to wait for my grit....grrrr Was looking on ebay and was shocked how much they have on their for sale. sadly alot of it can't be shipped to Canada Bunny
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Post by hermatite on Aug 25, 2004 10:35:59 GMT -5
hahahahaha sands...I wreck more computers that way.
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Post by BearCreekLapidary on Aug 25, 2004 11:10:15 GMT -5
Hello Cher, I have an answer for you Just tell your husband that you want to go to , NC for a rock hounding trip. Then kindly let him know that there is a NFL Cheerleader Competition and a HUGE Tool Sale at the town during the very same days .... You'll be running down the road begging for him to let you in the car! It's worth a try Enjoy, John
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Post by BearCreekLapidary on Aug 25, 2004 11:18:58 GMT -5
It's me again,
I forgot to congratulate you on the addiction!
I have a bunch of agates in 60/90 right now (about 8 pounds) and they should go to 220 on Friday. They don't have to be perfect, I give them away to kids at our shows.
This past weekend, they took advantage of them ... I had kids coming back four and five times getting freebies. I asked one kid if he had already got a stone ... and he said "yes, but I want one for my Sister, Mom, Dad, Aunt Mary, Uncle Tom, my Grandma and my Grandpa, oh yea, and Clyde". Who knows Clyde might be his goldfish!
He made out pretty good.
Enjoy and keep us up to date on your success.
John
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cowgirl3
off to a rocking start
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Post by cowgirl3 on Aug 25, 2004 18:29:57 GMT -5
You, Moonstone and myself...we all started tumbling today. Oh, I feel the love! This bunch is so much fun. Your meesages are THE most fun and most exciting, I must say! Am very glad for you. I had gotten some raw sapphires from ebay and am tryin' these out first (birth stone). We'll see. You go Girl! Check ya later.
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Post by krazydiamond on Aug 25, 2004 18:46:27 GMT -5
yo, bcbunny, there are a lot of big babies out there scared to ship international, if you see something you got to have and win, you can use my US address and i will ship it to you, you pay all costs, of course....
IM me if you are seriously interested, KD
PS, Herm...you got to stop making people spit coffee....it just isn't right...haha.
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rollingstone
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by rollingstone on Aug 25, 2004 18:59:27 GMT -5
Cowgirl, you're starting with a very difficult stone first time around. Sapphire is a type of corundum, it is just one step down from diamond on Mohs hardness scale (sapphire is 9, with diamond being 10). The silicon carbide grit used for tumbling is hardness 9.3, so it will smooth sapphire, but it's going to take a long time. Generally stones between hardness 5 and 7 are tumbled because they take a good shine but are still soft enough to tumble in a reasonable time frame. Stones with hardness 7 are things like quartz, jasper, agate, petrified wood, carnelian. I don't mean to scare you, just want to make sure you know that you are starting with a toughie.
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