Post by chickpea on Apr 14, 2010 6:06:22 GMT -5
Hello everyone. I'm new to this. My dad got a CR2 Tumbler from www.manchesterminerals.co.uk/acatalog/Tumbling_Machines.html for me and my 2 sisters to share, but it lives at my house so I mostly get to play with it! I only got it a few weeks ago so I haven't finished my first cycle yet. At the moment it has a small tumbler with some mixed agates on 400 grit. That's already been 14 days on 80 grit and 7 days on 220 grit. I just cleaned it and put it on the 400 this morning. And I have another small tumbler of mixed quartz on 80 grit that has been there 6 days so far, topped up the grit after 4 days. The bags of mixed agate and quartz come from www.manchesterminerals.co.uk/acatalog/Rough_Rock.html#a20_2d100 There's a beautiful big piece of tigerseye in the quartz mix that I'm paticularly keen to see how it comes out.
I've been lurking on these forums for a little while. I love the two tutorials linked to on the Totally Rock Tumbling forum, and I have printed them both out. They are much more detailed than anything else I have seen, and answered a lot of questions that had been puzzling me.
I have a bag of coloured glass pieces that have already been slightly tumbled or something to smooth the sharpest edges off. I got them in the garden centre, they are meant for puttin on top of flowerpots to hide the earth and make them look pretty. I got them because my eldest son plays Warhammer tabletop fantasy wargaming, and I thought they looked like space alien crystals, or massive gems from a dwarven mine, or something he could use to make models for that. Anyway, I was wondering what would happen if I tumbled them? I love the look of worn glass you sometimes find on the beach and I thought perhaps they would turn out like that.
I've been lurking on these forums for a little while. I love the two tutorials linked to on the Totally Rock Tumbling forum, and I have printed them both out. They are much more detailed than anything else I have seen, and answered a lot of questions that had been puzzling me.
I have a bag of coloured glass pieces that have already been slightly tumbled or something to smooth the sharpest edges off. I got them in the garden centre, they are meant for puttin on top of flowerpots to hide the earth and make them look pretty. I got them because my eldest son plays Warhammer tabletop fantasy wargaming, and I thought they looked like space alien crystals, or massive gems from a dwarven mine, or something he could use to make models for that. Anyway, I was wondering what would happen if I tumbled them? I love the look of worn glass you sometimes find on the beach and I thought perhaps they would turn out like that.