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Post by perkins17 on Apr 16, 2022 14:31:50 GMT -5
I finally finished a tumble for the first time in 2022! This is mostly Brazilian agates with a few local ones mixed in and some randoms. Funny story, I actually ran this through polish twice on accident! I was gifted a bunch of old grit that was labeled last year. I was running low on 500 so when I saw one unlabeled bag in a sequence of labeled 1, 2, and 4 sequence I figured this was a number three. I ran it for about 3 days, and then moved on to the old reliable, Rockshed AO. After about four days of running, there was very little polish. I decided to take it back to "500" to see what I could do. I didn't quite know what I did wrong, but I figured that I hadn't been patient enough. Ok, fast-forward to this morning. I went to check on the mini sonic with "500' and the rocks were super shiny! Well, I guess I am the proud owner of some unknown super polish! Well, here's the double polished rocks! IMG_20220416_113215352 by Perkins17, on Flickr Thank you all for looking! I know I talk too much...
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Post by Starguy on Apr 16, 2022 14:53:55 GMT -5
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Post by perkins17 on Apr 16, 2022 14:58:32 GMT -5
Thanks! Maybe I should always run it twice!
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Post by jasoninsd on Apr 16, 2022 20:41:47 GMT -5
Holy Shine-ola on that Perk! Good job using the "magic dust" on that batch! LOL
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Post by perkins17 on Apr 16, 2022 20:46:20 GMT -5
Holy Shine-ola on that Perk! Good job using the "magic dust" on that batch! LOL I'm thinking if you combine "Brazilian" and "agates" you get braggots! These things have been bragging since I got em. Took like a month in coarse to finally be done. Let's hope the "magic dust" isn't anything illegal lol. I literally have no clue what it is!
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Post by jasoninsd on Apr 16, 2022 20:49:37 GMT -5
Holy Shine-ola on that Perk! Good job using the "magic dust" on that batch! LOL I'm thinking if you combine "Brazilian" and "agates" you get braggots! These things have been bragging since I got em. Took like a month in coarse to finally be done. Let's hope the "magic dust" isn't anything illegal lol. I literally have no clue what it is! That's funny! LOL
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CLErocks
spending too much on rocks
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Post by CLErocks on Apr 21, 2022 8:36:20 GMT -5
This thread made me laugh….thanks!!
And, those are so beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Apr 21, 2022 9:38:48 GMT -5
Nice and shiny! Great job.
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Post by perkins17 on Apr 21, 2022 9:41:46 GMT -5
This thread made me laugh….thanks!! And, those are so beautiful. Thanks for sharing. I'm glad it did! Thank you! It was nice to get tumbling again.
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Post by perkins17 on Apr 21, 2022 9:42:30 GMT -5
Nice and shiny! Great job. Thank you! I don't think I've ever put this much work into a tumble before, besides the world tumbling contest rocks.
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phixer
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Post by phixer on Apr 22, 2022 15:39:05 GMT -5
Wow, very nice! They're so shiny! :-D
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Post by perkins17 on Apr 22, 2022 23:21:08 GMT -5
Wow, very nice! They're so shiny! :-D Thank you! It took quite a while for me to get here.
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nursetumbler
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Post by nursetumbler on Apr 23, 2022 0:22:33 GMT -5
Wow, very nice! They're so shiny! :-D Thank you! It took quite a while for me to get here. Awesome job perkins17. Someday I hope I am half that good
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lparsons
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Post by lparsons on Apr 23, 2022 2:30:21 GMT -5
You did a great job…what a shine! 🤗
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Apr 23, 2022 8:15:04 GMT -5
Nice shine! Love Brazilian agate- they never seem to fail!
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Post by perkins17 on Apr 23, 2022 11:15:39 GMT -5
Thank you! It took quite a while for me to get here. Awesome job perkins17. Someday I hope I am half that good Thank you so much! It won't take you too long to get here. Tumbling might be my favorite part of this hobby.
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Post by perkins17 on Apr 23, 2022 11:16:21 GMT -5
You did a great job…what a shine! 🤗 Thank you! I guess maybe whatever the polish is works great!
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Post by perkins17 on Apr 23, 2022 11:19:11 GMT -5
Nice shine! Love Brazilian agate- they never seem to fail! Thank you! Brazilian agate is super cool. I loved these as soon as they showed up from Kingsley North.
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Cackling Chick
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by Cackling Chick on Apr 23, 2022 21:14:55 GMT -5
perkins17 Those are stunning, particularly that bottom-middle one with the cool edge. Nice work! Too bad you don't know the secret ingredient to duplicate this.
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Post by perkins17 on Apr 23, 2022 21:26:37 GMT -5
perkins17 Those are stunning, particularly that bottom-middle one with the cool edge. Nice work! Too bad you don't know the secret ingredient to duplicate this. Thank you! I like that one too. I cabbed a "slab" from the same stone. I hand cut all of these on the club saw, and a few got turned into cabs. Thankfully I still have about a bag and 3/4 of the polish to work with. It came from a collection bought by my club a while back. I think these things are probably from the 80's or 90's so it could be cerium or tin oxide.
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