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Post by youp50 on Mar 27, 2017 7:14:59 GMT -5
I may have been spoiled right from the start. I do not live very far from Kingsley North. One just makes a left turn, through the door, start bagging your desires, weigh, mark and pay. I mail ordered some Botswana river bed agates from another supplier and was very pleased. So I ordered another bunch and some Jasper that Kingsley does not have. The jasper was 3/8" to 1 1/2" grade. Is it normal for this size to be very thin? Its more like chips that I doubt I would bother with tumbling if I were busting my own rough. I am sitting on the fence about returning this rough.
(On the brighter side, we picked a beach that had a sand lift put on it. It appeared the sand was river or harbor sand. There is some fairly nice brown quartz here.)
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ubermenehune
spending too much on rocks
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Post by ubermenehune on Mar 27, 2017 11:44:09 GMT -5
Sometimes it just depends on the type of rough and the supplier. Some material offered by vendors is available in different sizes (lakers come to mind), where others just fracture a certain way when impacted.
That said, approximate size should always be stated by a seller, in my opinion. I recently purchased 2 lbs of what I thought would be rough appropriate for tumbling. I ended up getting two large chunks. As a tumbler, I generally prefer material that is golf ball or ping pong ball sized.
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Post by glennz01 on Mar 27, 2017 12:10:21 GMT -5
Depends on what you like. Unless its really nice, i'm now only tumbling 2 inch + up to 7 inch. I'll put some smaller stuff in to help the grinding and polishing but thats what i do now.
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