Display Boxes 🛠

DIY Rock Organizer 💎

Emmy Lou sez these boxes are to small to cozy-up in. And they are lumpy too 😸

💲 Interesting Pfizer on ‘Wikipedia 👉 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer

I got the Moderna (👉 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moderna ) vacc 💊 💉 & don’t need a booster 𝕐𝕖𝕥 ❓

8 October 2021 2

Tiger eyes after burnishing with ‘GemFoam’ After I used ‘stage’ # 4 – 1200+ aluminum oxide (AL O¹) instead of 1000+ silicon dioxide (SI O²) final polish grit 😉

They came out a lot shinier 💎 🙂

6 October 2021 0

Apache Tear Rock Tumbling Polish Trick ⚗💎

Mohs (scale of harness) 5 They are to soft to tumble in stage #1 Course grit (60/90 Silicon Dioxide) The stones would have 30% of their size ground away ❗️

Soo…I start them on stage #2 Medium grit (170/220 Silicon Dioxide for 4 to 5 days instead of 7-8 days )

Then stage #3 Pre-Polish grit (500+ Silicon Dioxide for 4-5 days)

Stage #4 Polish grit (1200+ Aluminum Oxide for one week (Al O¹ breaks down after 7 days of tumbling)) So clean and add fresh polish and run another 7 days if needed.

𝕀𝕥 𝕀𝕤 𝕆𝕂 𝕥𝕠 𝕡𝕖𝕖𝕜 𝕒𝕥 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕜𝕤 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕪 𝕔𝕠𝕦𝕡𝕝𝕖-𝕗𝕖𝕨 𝕕𝕒𝕪𝕤 to √ Progress in each stage

Now Stage #5 Gem-Foam ( Magic little ‘sponge cubes’ ⚗❓) for 2 or 3 days and your rocks will come out shinier then ‘oleo’ on a glass door knob whilst not slippery to the touch 😉

Apache Tears ready for Polish Aluminum Oxide ⚗

Ceramic chips used to smooth rocks bouncing in the grit slurry and quiets the machine 😉

Big Hammer for making tumbler size stones out of large rocks ❗️ Tumbler size stones cost $30 a pound. Precious rock comes in bulk chunks (up to 6LB for only 4 dollars 💎

Stay Tuned for more translucent polished Apache Tears stones from New Mexico polished right here in N.E. Tennessee 🤠 (7 days AL O¹ + ‘Gem Foam’ 3 days = 10 days max) 😉
I will rinse them if I deem necessary , If they are dun tumbling 😉

1 October 2021 2

Dremel

Homemade Mini & Dremel Tools organizer.

Cr_06

12 September 2021 0

Gosh I ♥️ my home Polished Lake Superior Agates 💎 :)

These are from 2021

Rock Hounds never die, we just slowly patrifie 😉

2 September 2021 4

Amazon gave me a ‘Prime’ free trial’ 😉

A month of free shipping is cool however their movie streaming audio ‘sucks’ ❗️

A month of commercial free movies was nice while waiting for rough rocks tumble into gems 💎

2021 Superior Agates

29 August 2021 1

Dinosaur 🦕 Eggs ❓

No ❗️ 𝕋𝕦𝕣𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕒 A𝕘𝕒𝕥𝕖 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕎𝕪𝕠𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕘.

The proper name of the fossilized snail was thought to be Goniobasis, (pronounced gone-e-o-basis). Further study from paleontologists discovered it is actually Elimia Tenera. Turritella are common snails of a marine nature, but southwest WY at the time was fresh water.

Elimia Tenera 👉 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elimia_tenera

I got some work cut out for myself breaking these down to tumbling size ❗️

𝕀 ℕ𝕖𝕖𝕕 𝕒 𝔹𝕚𝕘𝕘𝕖𝕣 ℍ𝕒𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕣 ⚒ ❗️

28 August 2021 0

Agate polishing 💎

After stage #4 last polishing grit 10 days of tumbling (#1000 aluminum oxide) they were kinda dull looking

after Burnishing with ‘GemFoam for 2 to 3 days

Much much shinier 🙂

After 50+ years I got shinny rocks again 😉

21 August 2021 3

💎A lapidary rock (wet) saw costs $ 500 – $6,000 chuckies 💰

So I purchased an eight dollar ‘Cold Chisel’ that will work just fine for me ⚒

⚠️ Wear safety glasses (place a rag over rock)

I have to run my stones for 3 days with ‘GemFoam’ and water to get them shinny, as recommend by National Geographic ❗️

I am adding ceramic ‘filler pellets’ media next tumble

The final stage will be 3 to 5 days using ‘GemFoam’ media which should shine them rocks up 👌

20 August 2021 0

‘One Handed’ Braiding❗

Friday I braided this around my wrist❗

Using Dacron kite flying cord and bored Canna Lily seeds.
It is permanent {kinda like a tattoo but easier to cut of❗️}
⚠ That is only my hairy arm, nothing else 👀