SirRoxalot
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Post by SirRoxalot on Oct 18, 2015 23:35:39 GMT -5
I'm in Ontario. We have Petoskey's wash up on our shores from the formation under the lake in which they're found. Plus the glaciers brought down tons of neat things from up north.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 19, 2015 5:17:27 GMT -5
Jugglerguy - what is the mix ? 50% rocks and 50% corn cob ? I ran a wide mix of stones for 4 days. But had 25% stones and 75% corn cob. Maybe 20% and 80%. No doubt they improved. Especially the felspars-amazonite/labrodolite/pink Georgia felspar. Impactite did well. Going to rerun them if 25/75 mix is wrong though. Thanks for advise
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Post by Jugglerguy on Oct 19, 2015 5:22:06 GMT -5
I'd say somewhere around 10% rock. I'm not sure if I can go higher though. I read somewhere that that goal is to not have the rocks touch each other. When I fill the tumbler, I alternate putting in corn cob and rock so the rocks are well dispersed in the corn cob.
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Post by orrum on Oct 19, 2015 5:31:34 GMT -5
Hey Rob Walmart has corncob small animal bedding as does any pet store. Liking the efforts to polish Kona.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 19, 2015 6:01:22 GMT -5
I'd say somewhere around 10% rock. I'm not sure if I can go higher though. I read somewhere that that goal is to not have the rocks touch each other. When I fill the tumbler, I alternate putting in corn cob and rock so the rocks are well dispersed in the corn cob. At 20-25 % I had zero bruises. Ran them in 14,000 polish only. Looks like they needed AO 1000 first. But they did get shinier. this is the mix-rhyolite-obsidian-glass-orrum's green banded rhyolite-snowmom's impactite-stonemaster's Madagascar amazonite and labrodolite-GA. pink granite-GA pink felspar They had no where near that shine before starting. The three felspars across the top, amazonite-labrodolite and Georgia pink felspar got close to wet shine. Rhyolite and obsidian matte. All rocks improved, and no frosting or bruising. Done in vibe. Nice not to worry about adding water. Ran 4 days, got better each day. Had to put the cover on the vibe do to dust floating up. Never heard any rocks rattling against each other.
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Post by orrum on Oct 19, 2015 7:08:44 GMT -5
Nice mix James!
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Post by jamesp on Oct 19, 2015 10:13:02 GMT -5
Put bamboo roots in today. Hoping they will get polished. The rhyolites shined the least best Bill.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Oct 19, 2015 15:53:45 GMT -5
jamesp Those look great. As I experiment more, I'm going to slowly increase the percentage of rocks. orrum, I went to Tractor supply to look at corncob. It came in 40 or 50 lb bags for $10. I couldn't see in the bag, but a guy working there showed me something else that he said looked the same. I forgot what he showed me, but it was in a pelletized form like rabbit food. I didn't want that, so I just passed. He could have been wrong, but I didn't want to take the risk of buying 50 lbs of something I didn't need. I'll check out Walmart soon because I could use some more. The stuff from the Rock Shed is tiny little pieces, not big chunks. I'd say its 1/16 of an inch or smaller.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Oct 20, 2015 5:31:09 GMT -5
I stopped by Walmart last night and picked up a bag of corncob. It's not the same size as the stuff I got from The Rock Shed, but for $3.50, I thought I'd give it a try.
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Post by radio on Oct 20, 2015 7:30:37 GMT -5
With care, one can make some beautiful cabs also.
If anyone has some that aren't full of pits, I would buy some that are quarter to half dollar size
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Post by SirRoxalot on Jan 27, 2016 13:24:57 GMT -5
I'm from Ontario, Canada. We have Petoskey's on our side of the pond, but nobody knows it. The rock formation that hosts them is under the lake, the Hexagonaria and dozens of other cool rocks have been torn free by glaciers and pre-tumbled by the Great Lake. Grinding another dozen right now, winter is cabbin' fever time!
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Jan 27, 2016 13:28:14 GMT -5
I'm from Ontario, Canada. We have Petoskey's on our side of the pond, but nobody knows it. The rock formation that hosts them is under the lake, the Hexagonaria and dozens of other cool rocks have been torn free by glaciers and pre-tumbled by the Great Lake. Grinding another dozen right now, winter is cabbin' fever time! You know what they say. Pictures or it didn't happen. Would love to see pictures of what your grinding on. Ontario is pretty big. What area are you talking about? Seems it would have to be south of South bruce peninsula? Lambton Shores area seems like a possibility. chuck
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Post by Jugglerguy on Jan 27, 2016 16:31:48 GMT -5
So SirRoxalot, are you going to try tumbling some?
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Post by SirRoxalot on Jan 27, 2016 20:51:34 GMT -5
I'm near London, couple hours from Toronto, 40 minutes from the US border.
Good things can be found on the Huron shores from Sarnia to the Soo. Sorry, not going to be more specific than that, and there's no point, anyways, as lovely rock-filled beaches are covered by sand whenever the lake gods feel like it.
Prettiest beaches in the world, every day is different, and never a crowd, the Great Lake shorelines are truly under-appreciated.
I do need to take some pix, I know, will have to see about that.
Right now I've got 36 lbs of Ontario rose quartz and amethyst in coarse, and a bit more in the wee vibrasonic, plus another 12 lb full of beach glass. And a new motor on the way so I'll have another 12 lbs of capacity to play with. And I have almost everything to get my big-ass propane tank tumbler going, which will be sweet.
I probably will give the petoskey's another go, now that I've found corncob and have 500 AO on the way.
Thanks again to all you crazy kids playing with the soft stuff, I truly appreciate it!
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Post by TheRock on Jul 24, 2018 22:39:28 GMT -5
Rob, Great Thread and thanks for your dedicated work. The Wife and I plan a trip up north in Aug and one stop will be by Peterson Park way for a few Days then work our way up to Marquette to lake superior. Hopefully we can bring back a few to Polish. We have a few Petoskey's now to Polish So I will follow your instructions and see how I come out. Is there any update's to your recipe since your last post on this? Thanks ~Duke
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Post by Jugglerguy on Jul 25, 2018 6:51:56 GMT -5
Rob, Great Thread and thanks for your dedicated work. The Wife and I plan a trip up north in Aug and one stop will be by Peterson Park way for a few Days then work our way up to Marquette to lake superior. Hopefully we can bring back a few to Polish. We have a few Petoskey's now to Polish So I will follow your instructions and see how I come out. Is there any update's to your recipe since your last post on this? Thanks ~Duke No changes to the corn cob method, but you’ll get them a lot shinier doing them on your cab machine. If you go the cabber route, I’d let them dry between wheels to check for spots you missed. It’s hard to keep track of where you’re at on an oddly shaped stone. I always had a small fan going that I’d lay them in front of while I did the next rock. If I remember correctly, you have plenty of fans around.
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Post by TheRock on Jul 25, 2018 10:08:01 GMT -5
Rob, Great Thread and thanks for your dedicated work. The Wife and I plan a trip up north in Aug and one stop will be by Peterson Park way for a few Days then work our way up to Marquette to lake superior. Hopefully we can bring back a few to Polish. We have a few Petoskey's now to Polish So I will follow your instructions and see how I come out. Is there any update's to your recipe since your last post on this? Thanks ~Duke No changes to the corn cob method, but you’ll get them a lot shinier doing them on your cab machine. If you go the cabber route, I’d let them dry between wheels to check for spots you missed. It’s hard to keep track of where you’re at on an oddly shaped stone. I always had a small fan going that I’d lay them in front of while I did the next rock. If I remember correctly, you have plenty of fans around. By the way, I tried to purchase some Corn Cob from Shawn Yesterday from TRS and he was out so I went to AMAZON, Fleebay, and others and did some research and the stuff all the HOT SHOE reloaders are using is Frankford Arsenal Corn Cob Media for Tumbler it is $16.99 for 15lbs which works out to be $ 1.32 lb TRS charges $18.00 for 5lbs which is $3.60 lb altho shawn has some polish in it. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0063GT330/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Post by jamesp on Dec 3, 2019 8:53:47 GMT -5
I'd say somewhere around 10% rock. I'm not sure if I can go higher though. I read somewhere that that goal is to not have the rocks touch each other. When I fill the tumbler, I alternate putting in corn cob and rock so the rocks are well dispersed in the corn cob. At 20-25 % I had zero bruises. Ran them in 14,000 polish only. Looks like they needed AO 1000 first. But they did get shinier. this is the mix-rhyolite-obsidian-glass-orrum's green banded rhyolite-snowmom's impactite-stonemaster's Madagascar amazonite and labrodolite-GA. pink granite-GA pink felspar They had no where near that shine before starting. The three felspars across the top, amazonite-labrodolite and Georgia pink felspar got close to wet shine. Rhyolite and obsidian matte. All rocks improved, and no frosting or bruising. Done in vibe. Nice not to worry about adding water. Ran 4 days, got better each day. Had to put the cover on the vibe do to dust floating up. Never heard any rocks rattling against each other. Hell I forgot I did a successful dry tumble back in 2015 RocksInNJ. Most of those rocks defy a wet tumble polish.
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Post by RocksInNJ on Dec 3, 2019 15:15:36 GMT -5
At 20-25 % I had zero bruises. Ran them in 14,000 polish only. Looks like they needed AO 1000 first. But they did get shinier. this is the mix-rhyolite-obsidian-glass-orrum's green banded rhyolite-snowmom's impactite-stonemaster's Madagascar amazonite and labrodolite-GA. pink granite-GA pink felspar They had no where near that shine before starting. The three felspars across the top, amazonite-labrodolite and Georgia pink felspar got close to wet shine. Rhyolite and obsidian matte. All rocks improved, and no frosting or bruising. Done in vibe. Nice not to worry about adding water. Ran 4 days, got better each day. Had to put the cover on the vibe do to dust floating up. Never heard any rocks rattling against each other. Hell I forgot I did a successful dry tumble back in 2015 RocksInNJ . Most of those rocks defy a wet tumble polish. Many thanks for the tag. I’ve been trying to learn a bit about dry polishing. Hopefully some day I’ll be able to get a Lot-0 or even better a UV-10 to experiment with. Though I am curious on the results of dry tumble and found this thread.
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Post by jamesp on Dec 3, 2019 15:42:28 GMT -5
I can't remember doing this dry run RocksInNJ. I know I did not use corn cob, it was rice hulls just like the Vibrasonic book said-NOT- to use lol. As matter of, here is the Vibrasonic instructions. Spelled out somewhere in them is instructions for dry tumbling using VIBRADRY which is probably long discontinued. They are like 50 years old so the product names for the abrasives are long discontinued. May give insight. www.flickr.com/photos/67205364@N06/sets/72157657508458549
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