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waterboysh spending too much on rocks Member since April 2021 Posts: 386	Green Tree Moss Agate Feb 20, 2023 14:03:41 GMT -5 amygdule, hummingbirdstones, and 9 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by waterboysh on Feb 20, 2023 14:03:41 GMT -5 Link to gallery in case you want to open in a new tab.

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Green Tree Moss Agate Feb 20, 2023 14:37:12 GMT -5 hummingbirdstones and jasoninsd like this

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Post by rocknewb101 on Feb 20, 2023 14:37:12 GMT -5

GORGEOUS! One of my favorites to look at, but not to tumble. These look so smooth - I always end up with the 'mossy pieces' that make little indents in my tumble, trapping grit/polish. Curious how you manage that? Am I working with less than good quality perhaps? I can see the same on some of yours, but they look so nice and smooth. Thanks for sharing!

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Green Tree Moss Agate Feb 20, 2023 16:59:16 GMT -5 hummingbirdstones, jasoninsd, and 1 more like this

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Post by waterboysh on Feb 20, 2023 16:59:16 GMT -5

Yeah, so several pieces had these very spongey sections. For the most part though, I was able to grind it away in coarse. Some of them I just photographed so you can't see it very well. The only one I couldn't do that with is the bigger one in the 3rd to last picture. The spongy area wrapped around the whole way and was right in the middle. I used to not take before pictures of the rough, but I've started doing that now, but that means I don't have a picture of these before I tumbled them. The rough came from The Rock Shed. Most of them smoothed out very nicely but did take a while in coarse.

stefan Cave Dweller Member since January 2005 Posts: 14,113	Green Tree Moss Agate Feb 20, 2023 18:47:52 GMT -5 hummingbirdstones likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by stefan on Feb 20, 2023 18:47:52 GMT -5 Just started some from the Rock Shed as well. Material is better quality than I have seen in a while. It is shaping up nicely and seems good and solid (for the most part).
	I can't tell if thats some Gneiss Schist, or that Schist is Gneiss. All I know is don't take it for Granite

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Green Tree Moss Agate Feb 20, 2023 21:26:11 GMT -5

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Post by hummingbirdstones on Feb 20, 2023 21:26:11 GMT -5

Happy, shiny tumbles! Great looking batch.

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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

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Green Tree Moss Agate Feb 21, 2023 8:46:59 GMT -5

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Feb 20, 2023 16:59:16 GMT -5 waterboysh said:

Thanks waterboysh - comes back to me not tumbling long enough - Rock Shed is where I get 95% of my rough. Will keep on keepin' on and applying what I learn in the process

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