playin4funami
noticing nice landscape pebbles
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Post by playin4funami on Apr 24, 2011 21:18:23 GMT -5
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Digforcrystals
spending too much on rocks
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Post by Digforcrystals on Apr 24, 2011 21:19:57 GMT -5
heck, most anything will fall apart after 8 years exposed to the elements!
so yeah, it will probably tumble.
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quartz
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breakin' rocks in the hot sun
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Post by quartz on Apr 24, 2011 21:24:16 GMT -5
All the little pieces one finds out in the brush were, at one time, part of a bigger piece, and they tumble just fine.
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Post by connrock on Apr 25, 2011 7:40:23 GMT -5
Well there's pet wood and then there's pet wood! Some of it has different "hardnesses" within itself and the softer areas won't polish up very well while the hard areas do. Other pet wood has pits throughout it and you'll never get rid of the pits no matter how much you tumble it. Then there are some that are as solid as solid gets and it will polish up like Brazilian Agates! These are some small slabs of some "blah" wood that were pretty soft and didn't polish up all that well,,,,,,, These have a little color but also had soft areas that didn't polish up,,,,, These are almost all dark brown without much color and also had soft areas,,,, This one has a reddish color but it's loaded with pits so I took what I got,,,,, And then there's the Chinchilla wood from Australia that's very solid, dense material which takes a fantastic polish,,,,, I don't have any photos of it but have done some of the multi colored Arizona wood that can also be solid material and will take on a great shine but it too has it's pitfalls. Good Luck,,, connrock
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Apr 25, 2011 10:38:31 GMT -5
8 years exposure is pretty harsh- but this stuff has been around for millions of years. Tom is correct in that there are many pet wood grades. Heck some pet woood is not even replaced with quartz material. I have some that is a calcite replacment- Mohs 4 I believe. Best thing to do is the try to hammer away as much "junk" as you can and then try a tumble- you will know by the first recharge if it is gonna be worth while.
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playin4funami
noticing nice landscape pebbles
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Post by playin4funami on Apr 25, 2011 12:08:56 GMT -5
thanks guys, this stuff is different than most of the pet wood I have handled, it is fairly soft and I can almost break it apart with my bare hands on the fractures but heck when a tumbler opens up we will give it a shot and see what happens, if after a week it is gone we'll just toss it,lol.
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