Post by dontpanic on Apr 26, 2024 13:41:09 GMT -5
Greetings earthlings!
Gosh I’m awkward at intro posts. Long time lurker, first time poster. I’ve been slowly reading the tumbling board for a while now, I think I’m on page 125 of 205 lol. I am one of those adhd people who has to exhaustively learn everything I can about something so I can suck every last drop of dopamine out of it. Also I get impatient waiting on my tumblers.
I haven’t been tumbling long, I started out with a thumlers ar-1 just trying to work on local beach rocks but quickly picked up a 33c that had never been used and I think spent the last 30 years sitting in someone’s garage. Now I’m struggling to keep myself from looking at eBay for rough all the time. What a slippery slope this is!
Even though I’ve had my baby tumblers running nonstop for a couple few months I have yet to move anything beyond stage 1. Not any kind of big deal to me, but I already wish for a larger tumbler and am insanely jealous of all you folks who can hound all sorts of cool local agates and jaspers without traveling far. The more I read the more I realize how many kinds of gorgeous rocks are out there to make shiny, and the more I realize I don’t know sh** about sh**, haha. Good thing learning is half the fun for me.
Unfortunately I don’t live very near the range of Lake Superior agates but a trip up to the UP will happen this summer for sure, will probably go the long way around Lake Michigan (the Wisconsin way up so I can go to Kingsley North of course) and take the bridge on the way back down to the lower peninsula, probably stopping in Petoskey or Charlevoix for obvious reasons.
Here’s some of what I have currently in progress:
A piece of crazy lace that broke off another chunk and tumbled itself into an almost perfect cab!
Some slag or cullet from the upper peninsula that accidentally found itself in a batch this week, no wonder that barrel got so gassy. I have another 8 pounds of the stuff!
edit: I discovered indigo gabbro exists and to my untrained eye this sure looks a lot like that. I have no idea how I came into possession of it or how it got into the batch…I’m not scatterbrained at all folks, nope.
Some of this crazy lace is from Rock Shed but most is from Copper Creek Farms in MI, I can’t get enough of how diverse and…well…crazy this stuff is! Lace agates are definitely my favorite, or anything botryoidal.
Botswanas also from Copper Creek, some are pretty fractured but the pitting is moving along faster than I expected. I’ve only had these in stage 1 for a week.
Finally my rainbow barrel with a bit of green moss, a random chunk of blue lace, some Mozambique, Bahia, and some mystery agates and jaspers from a mystery box. I really wish the mozambiques were in better shape but pretty much all of the ones I got are heavily fractured and may become smalls for tumble fodder. Time will tell.
Thanks for reading my novel, I probably won’t be a very active poster but I will often be here…lurking…haha!
Gosh I’m awkward at intro posts. Long time lurker, first time poster. I’ve been slowly reading the tumbling board for a while now, I think I’m on page 125 of 205 lol. I am one of those adhd people who has to exhaustively learn everything I can about something so I can suck every last drop of dopamine out of it. Also I get impatient waiting on my tumblers.
I haven’t been tumbling long, I started out with a thumlers ar-1 just trying to work on local beach rocks but quickly picked up a 33c that had never been used and I think spent the last 30 years sitting in someone’s garage. Now I’m struggling to keep myself from looking at eBay for rough all the time. What a slippery slope this is!
Even though I’ve had my baby tumblers running nonstop for a couple few months I have yet to move anything beyond stage 1. Not any kind of big deal to me, but I already wish for a larger tumbler and am insanely jealous of all you folks who can hound all sorts of cool local agates and jaspers without traveling far. The more I read the more I realize how many kinds of gorgeous rocks are out there to make shiny, and the more I realize I don’t know sh** about sh**, haha. Good thing learning is half the fun for me.
Unfortunately I don’t live very near the range of Lake Superior agates but a trip up to the UP will happen this summer for sure, will probably go the long way around Lake Michigan (the Wisconsin way up so I can go to Kingsley North of course) and take the bridge on the way back down to the lower peninsula, probably stopping in Petoskey or Charlevoix for obvious reasons.
Here’s some of what I have currently in progress:
A piece of crazy lace that broke off another chunk and tumbled itself into an almost perfect cab!
Some slag or cullet from the upper peninsula that accidentally found itself in a batch this week, no wonder that barrel got so gassy. I have another 8 pounds of the stuff!
edit: I discovered indigo gabbro exists and to my untrained eye this sure looks a lot like that. I have no idea how I came into possession of it or how it got into the batch…I’m not scatterbrained at all folks, nope.
Some of this crazy lace is from Rock Shed but most is from Copper Creek Farms in MI, I can’t get enough of how diverse and…well…crazy this stuff is! Lace agates are definitely my favorite, or anything botryoidal.
Botswanas also from Copper Creek, some are pretty fractured but the pitting is moving along faster than I expected. I’ve only had these in stage 1 for a week.
Finally my rainbow barrel with a bit of green moss, a random chunk of blue lace, some Mozambique, Bahia, and some mystery agates and jaspers from a mystery box. I really wish the mozambiques were in better shape but pretty much all of the ones I got are heavily fractured and may become smalls for tumble fodder. Time will tell.
Thanks for reading my novel, I probably won’t be a very active poster but I will often be here…lurking…haha!