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Post by Noosh9057 on Mar 10, 2013 7:53:13 GMT -5
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Post by Toad on Mar 10, 2013 8:32:50 GMT -5
About $6.40 a pound including the shipping, but the material looks pretty nice. If they have 20 different types of rocks, pretty sure it shouldn't all go into the tumbler at once. Make sure to seperate out the softer material.
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Post by NM Stone Supply on Mar 10, 2013 9:54:32 GMT -5
Great to point that out Toad.
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Post by roy on Mar 10, 2013 11:47:06 GMT -5
i think you could get better tumbling rough from people here than that !
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Post by Noosh9057 on Mar 10, 2013 11:52:26 GMT -5
i think you could get better tumbling rough from people here than that ! Yes I was looking at some here but I was not fast enuf. I will think about looking harder here nexed time. Roger |
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Post by Noosh9057 on Mar 10, 2013 12:00:49 GMT -5
About $6.40 a pound including the shipping, but the material looks pretty nice. If they have 20 different types of rocks, pretty sure it shouldn't all go into the tumbler at once. Make sure to seperate out the softer material. I did not think that they all mite not be able to goto gather. What is a good way to find the softer stones. Roger |
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Post by deb193redux on Mar 10, 2013 12:01:36 GMT -5
Some of this may still need to be broken, because 1" to 2" is lacking the necessary smaller sizes for charging loads. But the collors shown does seem nice.
I think catmandew's offer for tumbling fough at <$2/lb is ongoing, although that may beed breaking up a bit too.
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Post by Noosh9057 on Mar 10, 2013 12:06:47 GMT -5
Some of this may still need to be broken, because 1" to 2" is lacking the necessary smaller sizes for charging loads. But the collors shown does seem nice. I think catmandew's offer for tumbling fough at <$2/lb is ongoing, although that may beed breaking up a bit too. I will think about catmandews rough next time I get payed. Roger |
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Post by deb193redux on Mar 10, 2013 13:22:50 GMT -5
About $6.40 a pound including the shipping, but the material looks pretty nice. If they have 20 different types of rocks, pretty sure it shouldn't all go into the tumbler at once. Make sure to seperate out the softer material. I did not think that they all mite not be able to goto gather. What is a good way to find the softer stones. Roger the 1st time the rough barrel is recharges, look for any that have smoothed a lot. Set those out as maybe best in a soft batch. the 3rd time the rough barrel is recharged, look for ones that have barely changed, maybe only smoothed edges, but still clear edges. set these aside as maybe best in a "hard" batch. most of the rest can go together. you should watch for macro-quartz that might break and yield a sharp edge. these could stay or be set apart depending on how obsessive you want to be. |
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Post by susand24224 on Mar 10, 2013 15:16:41 GMT -5
Some of the rocks in the photo would be best not tumbled together, like the amethyst and rose quartz in with jaspers, and the obsidian in with anything else. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Deb's method will work on most, or you can simply take a sharp edge on one and try to scratch another. If the rocks don't scratch each other at all, or they scratch each other equally, they can (sort of) be tumbled together. If A scratches B, but B doesn't scratch A, separate them.
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