Laker barrel updated 5/25/2024

You have a lot of stunners in there!

Thank you and welcome to the forum.

Thanks.  It’s actually better than expected.

Thanks PS.  I struggle with when to move them on.  My natural tendency is to let them roll until there are no more pits.  The pits are kind of attractive on some of these lakers.  

I really like the eye agates too.  That big red one is the best eye agate I’ve tumbled so far.  It’s very different from your Gobis.

Such a beautiful satin look on the penultimate and third-to-last pictures!

I need to quit being lazy and put my cabber back together.  It will take that patch off pretty quick.  It got me eyeing the similar pit and skin to the left too.  Maybe there’s another eye under that.  It will be awhile before there are enough for stage 2.  I just need to remember it.

Thanks.  They should transition nicely to stage 2.  The goal is to go to stage 2 in the 12 pound tumbler.  It’s going to be hard to wait for that much to be ready, especially once there is enough to fill a three pound barrel.

Thanks Jason.  Isn’t that a dandy?  I need to go back to find pictures of it rough.  The other side is pretty nice too.  It’s in the third to last photo, bottom left.

These are a few photos of cleanout nine. The first photos are the ones that jumped out at my eye. Dry and wet.





These are moving on to stage two from this cleanout. I was expecting more but the whole batch is maturing nicely.



This is the accumulated rocks moving on. I think it would fill a three pounder. I haven’t checked the fit because I would be too tempted to start it rolling.




These are the replacement rocks. I must be doing something right because the volume went down even though there weren’t too many moving on.



Thanks for looking.

Thanks.  I’m glad you’re enjoying the thread.  It’s been so much fun doing the cleanouts.  It’s like I’m a little kid or a first time tumbler.   I can barely wait to see how the next cleanout will look.  I’ve been adjusting how I display them and what photos to post.  Hopefully it stays interesting.

I also wanted to mention that coin...At the beginning I didn't know how big an 1885 one dollar coin is and had to google it.
Looks great progress and some of the replacements are very promising.

Cleanout 10 is complete. Here are a few photos. I tried to pick out some new rocks to show.

These kind of caught my eye. Dry and wet.




The split rock in the photos broke nearly perfectly. There was one big crack right through the middle. One tap with the mini ball peen and it broke like this. It actually broke on the crack.




These are some of my favorites in this cleanout. Left to right, very cool colors, the nicest eye agate that’s been in my tumblers, purple and golden agate, amazing parallax shadows on the right one.



These are moving on to stage 2.



I only added one big handful of small LSAs for replacement.


Thanks for looking.

I like the big orange one in the last photo.  At first I thought it was huge, then realized you switched the nickle for the silver dollar.  Very tricky.