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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Aug 11, 2016 19:49:15 GMT -5
These are the Arizona petrified wood from the 2016 world tumbling contest. I did not get any good pictures of the five I sent in so here are all the rest that survived to the end. Started as three pounds and ended at less then one pound. This material was difficult and the fractures were never ending but getting it to shine was not an issue. I was getting a little bored with the loto process so I changed it up and rotary polished these. I do not feel that my five will be contenders but it was a fun tumble. Chuck
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Post by Garage Rocker on Aug 11, 2016 19:58:42 GMT -5
By all the accounts I heard, it was a tough tumble. Good luck, I hope to join the fun next year.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Aug 11, 2016 21:30:43 GMT -5
Those scare me.
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Post by orrum on Aug 11, 2016 22:13:26 GMT -5
Nicely done!!! The stuff breaks as bad as rose quartz÷
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Post by adam on Aug 12, 2016 5:43:10 GMT -5
The struggle is real for Drummond Island Rocks. That AZ rainbow pet wood is gnarly.
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Aug 12, 2016 7:02:55 GMT -5
I think pet wood is one of the easiest rocks to achieve a nice polish on. The yearly dilemma is trying to figure out if boring rocks with no flaws will garner more votes then flawed/fractured rocks with great colors and patterns. I ended up choosing to send in five flawless but nothing special rocks. Chuck
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scottyh
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Post by scottyh on Aug 26, 2016 1:11:12 GMT -5
Right choice, Go for the perfect rocks..... flaws just kill you in a competition I managed to get eleven stones that were of a reasonable size out of the tumble. Here are the rejects right before I sent the entries in. The best were packed and ready to go. Cheers Scott
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 26, 2016 5:47:16 GMT -5
Very pretty for rejects. They must have cracked up the wood they provided you for tumble rough. That pet wood really tends to fracture a lot when whacked up. I have that same problem when I tumble it for the kids. Collected along the road at Woodruff, AZ one time and it was most all tumble sized stuff pre broken by time and the elements. Now that stuff made a great fracture free tumble as nature had already taken care of the breaking process and the remaining pieces were nice and solid....Mel
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meviva
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Post by meviva on Aug 26, 2016 9:35:33 GMT -5
Those look really good. I'm not happy with the ones I sent in, but I didn't have many good ones to choose from. I still have most of them stage one. Good luck to those who entered. I hope RTHer's take all three top spots.
Andrea
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huskeric
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Post by huskeric on Aug 30, 2016 9:19:20 GMT -5
If those are your rejects, you should feel pretty good about what you submitted. Would you have changed what would you sent in and included any of the above had they not had fractures? There's some pretty ones in there.
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Post by greig on Aug 30, 2016 15:17:37 GMT -5
I wish you the best of luck in the competition!
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ubermenehune
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Post by ubermenehune on Sept 6, 2016 17:53:10 GMT -5
These are the Arizona petrified wood from the 2016 world tumbling contest. I did not get any good pictures of the five I sent in so here are all the rest that survived to the end. Started as three pounds and ended at less then one pound. This material was difficult and the fractures were never ending but getting it to shine was not an issue. I was getting a little bored with the loto process so I changed it up and rotary polished these. I do not feel that my five will be contenders but it was a fun tumble. Chuck Bro. Do you even tumble? Those are disgraceful.
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