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OfflineLarrythescaryrex
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Question about tumbling stones.
    #14774115 - 07/15/11 05:59 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

I recently got a three pound barrel rotary tumbler. I had one as a kid and basically know what they do and I read some stuff on the internet. I was hoping some one here might have personal experience they could share comments with me or perhaps particularly discuss working with obsidian.


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Re: Question about tumbling stones. [Re: Larrythescaryrex]
    #14775831 - 07/16/11 01:12 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

I have no idea what that means at all


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Re: Question about tumbling stones. [Re: Larrythescaryrex]
    #14776178 - 07/16/11 04:31 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

I had one as a kid, but I never really paid attention to what I put in there.  Toss in a handful of rocks, some water, and some polish and wait to see the results.  If I remember correctly, there were two or three different grades of polish that would have to be changed out once a week or so.

> I have no idea what that means at all

He has a barrel rotary tumbler (rock polisher) that holds three pounds of rocks.  You fill the barrel with rocks, water, and a polish (or grit), put a lid on the barrel, put it on its side, and a motor slowly turns it.  The rocks inside the barrel smash against each other, and the polish, and slowly erode away their sharp edges.  After a few weeks you have a barrel full of smooth, polished rocks.  He is asking if anybody has experience working with obsidian in one of these.  Obsidian likes to shatter making very sharp edges, but it can also be ground and polished into really nice looking gems.  I don't know which way it will go in the tumbler.


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Re: Question about tumbling stones. [Re: Seuss]
    #14778689 - 07/16/11 06:52 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

supposedly plastic beads are key to the final stages for obsidean polishing. And I'm doin't one big rock,so there should be minimal damage.


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invoke the shadows and dust, cast a hex
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relocate from Ur to 8th density and become a cosmic bully
mulder and scully couldn't decipher his glyphs
invoke the shadows and dust, smoke infernal spliffs"
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Re: Question about tumbling stones. [Re: Larrythescaryrex]
    #14778929 - 07/16/11 08:07 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

I'd be interested in seeing a before and after pic :laugh:

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