Post by jamijr on Apr 5, 2021 15:19:43 GMT -5
Hi, obviously I'm new. My name's Jami and I'm from Orange County, California.
I joined the forum because I thought maybe I'd get a bit more info here then I'm getting from just searching Google.
I guess you can say I got the desire to rockhound from my mom. Ever year we go up to the High Sierras to fish and mom has always come back from vacation with rocks. Her ultimate goal is to put up a flagpole and put the rocks in the cement around the flagpole. (Though she's got so many now I don't think she can possibly use them all.)
Now me, I've wanted a rock tumbler since I was a little girl and saw one at the Orange County Fair. Back then they tended to be super expensive so I never got one but during quarantine I volunteered for the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine trials. They do pay you for it but put the money on a debit card. Getting the money from it to pay bills would've included so many fees I felt it wasn't worth it, so instead I decided to use that money to treat myself to "frivolous" items. Some cosplay stuff and obviously a rock tumbler plus some of the supplies.
I'm still learning how to use it, obviously - sometimes my rocks come out shiny, sometimes not even though I follow the instructions, burnish with Ivory Soap, etc. The best results I've had so far is with rocks that had already been tumbled by nature. (Though I still tumbled them for a short cycle to get rid of any "imperfections" before putting them through a polishing cycle.) One of my goals is to make my own "sea glass" using broken glass you can find in abundance around the areas my parents and I fish.
Besides rockhounding I also enjoy fishing, reading, cosplay (though I'm a novice at that too & do the majority of it on TikTok), horror movies, and videos games like Pokémon and Castlevania. Along with a bunch of other stuff that has nothing to do with rocks so....
I joined the forum because I thought maybe I'd get a bit more info here then I'm getting from just searching Google.
I guess you can say I got the desire to rockhound from my mom. Ever year we go up to the High Sierras to fish and mom has always come back from vacation with rocks. Her ultimate goal is to put up a flagpole and put the rocks in the cement around the flagpole. (Though she's got so many now I don't think she can possibly use them all.)
Now me, I've wanted a rock tumbler since I was a little girl and saw one at the Orange County Fair. Back then they tended to be super expensive so I never got one but during quarantine I volunteered for the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine trials. They do pay you for it but put the money on a debit card. Getting the money from it to pay bills would've included so many fees I felt it wasn't worth it, so instead I decided to use that money to treat myself to "frivolous" items. Some cosplay stuff and obviously a rock tumbler plus some of the supplies.
I'm still learning how to use it, obviously - sometimes my rocks come out shiny, sometimes not even though I follow the instructions, burnish with Ivory Soap, etc. The best results I've had so far is with rocks that had already been tumbled by nature. (Though I still tumbled them for a short cycle to get rid of any "imperfections" before putting them through a polishing cycle.) One of my goals is to make my own "sea glass" using broken glass you can find in abundance around the areas my parents and I fish.
Besides rockhounding I also enjoy fishing, reading, cosplay (though I'm a novice at that too & do the majority of it on TikTok), horror movies, and videos games like Pokémon and Castlevania. Along with a bunch of other stuff that has nothing to do with rocks so....