Post by benh7777 on Jul 28, 2016 23:21:11 GMT -5
Newbies first post.......
This is a cool board, glad I came across it. Lots of interesting stuff here.
Living in central Oregon (Bend) I am lucky to have countless public areas close to my disposal for rock hounding but my favorite is heading to the coast and collecting beach agates. I never get tired of walking the beach, usually I end up heading back only because every pocket in my pants, shirt, coat and anything else I can stuff agates in are full and weighing me down. Then I can't wait to get home and throw them in the tumbler.
Gleneden Beach is my favorite beach to look for agates. I will post some pics later of some of my tumbled agates.
My biggest challenge is getting all that white crap, whatever it's called, off of the agates. Sometimes it can take 3-4 rounds of stage 1 tumbling and knocking the size of the agate down by half to get through it all. Sometimes for the sake of keeping most of the agate in tact I must settle with a few spots or streaks of it on before polishing them.
I'm no expert on types of agate I find, I just love opening the tumbler after that final polishing stage, I can sit there for hours inspecting each agate.
This is a cool board, glad I came across it. Lots of interesting stuff here.
Living in central Oregon (Bend) I am lucky to have countless public areas close to my disposal for rock hounding but my favorite is heading to the coast and collecting beach agates. I never get tired of walking the beach, usually I end up heading back only because every pocket in my pants, shirt, coat and anything else I can stuff agates in are full and weighing me down. Then I can't wait to get home and throw them in the tumbler.
Gleneden Beach is my favorite beach to look for agates. I will post some pics later of some of my tumbled agates.
My biggest challenge is getting all that white crap, whatever it's called, off of the agates. Sometimes it can take 3-4 rounds of stage 1 tumbling and knocking the size of the agate down by half to get through it all. Sometimes for the sake of keeping most of the agate in tact I must settle with a few spots or streaks of it on before polishing them.
I'm no expert on types of agate I find, I just love opening the tumbler after that final polishing stage, I can sit there for hours inspecting each agate.
