Post by jamijr on Apr 14, 2021 12:16:17 GMT -5
So I recently found this thick piece of glass and wanted to try tumbling it, but I didn't want to tumble it alone. Now about a month ago I had some success tumbling pieces of a terracotta pot I broke, I only tumbled the pieces for a week - which was more than enough - then later spray painted them with clear gloss varnish. I still had some left over so I thought I'd tumble them along with the glass.
And here's how they turned out after one week of tumbling -
Now I have a double barrel tumbler so while those were tumbling I had rocks in the other going through their polishing stage. I don't know what the small ones are as they're from a bag of tumbling rough I bought off Amazon in my excitement to finally have a rock tumbler after years of dreaming of one. (And I still have two more bags of that rough to tumble.) The large one I found in my vegetable garden. I'm thinking it's one that was in my mom's rock collection, she had this large box of rocks that she's been collecting for years with the intention of cementing them around the base of a flagpole. So it's most likely something we picked up in the Mono County, CA area while fishing.
I'm not going to start any new batches until Sunday. My poor tumbler has been going pretty much every day for awhile now and I think it needs a rest.
I did have some gas build up with the glass & terracotta tumble so I had to stop and put some baking soda in as it was bulging enough that it was making the tumbler off balance. Good practice for when I find more glass pieces to tumble in the future. I'll know to add baking soda from the start so the tumbling isn't interrupted.
The CPP polish I bought seems to work much, much better than AO polish. I'll have to go back and retumble some of my failed loads in the future with the CPP and see if I can finally get them to shine.
And here's how they turned out after one week of tumbling -
Now I have a double barrel tumbler so while those were tumbling I had rocks in the other going through their polishing stage. I don't know what the small ones are as they're from a bag of tumbling rough I bought off Amazon in my excitement to finally have a rock tumbler after years of dreaming of one. (And I still have two more bags of that rough to tumble.) The large one I found in my vegetable garden. I'm thinking it's one that was in my mom's rock collection, she had this large box of rocks that she's been collecting for years with the intention of cementing them around the base of a flagpole. So it's most likely something we picked up in the Mono County, CA area while fishing.
I'm not going to start any new batches until Sunday. My poor tumbler has been going pretty much every day for awhile now and I think it needs a rest.
I did have some gas build up with the glass & terracotta tumble so I had to stop and put some baking soda in as it was bulging enough that it was making the tumbler off balance. Good practice for when I find more glass pieces to tumble in the future. I'll know to add baking soda from the start so the tumbling isn't interrupted.
The CPP polish I bought seems to work much, much better than AO polish. I'll have to go back and retumble some of my failed loads in the future with the CPP and see if I can finally get them to shine.