After tumbling for a week with medium grit (stage 2) These will now go through one week of pre polish then 10 days of polishing grit (stages 3 & 4)
Polishing Agates
🍒 That movie just put the cherry on my piece of cake for the Day 😢
‘A̲i̲r̲ ̲S̲t̲r̲i̲k̲e̲’ (Bruce Willis) all the Chinese spoke english and the Japanese spoke 日本語, Nihongo❗️ {closed caption was not legible}
#first stage (grit) Tumbling Lake Superior Agates (5days)
Ya got to wet them to look shiny after this stage
Rough Superior Agates before stage #1 grinding grit tumbling
Oh my 3:30 AM now ‘W̲a̲t̲e̲r̲ ̲W̲o̲r̲l̲d̲’ is on ❗️
Perspiration can Polish Stones 💎
But a rock tumbler with different grits is a lot faster and more efficient ❗️
Especially if ya have a rock saw with grinder / buffer lab like I had in the ’60’s 😉
My rock collection these days.
“Rock Hounds Never Die, We just slowly Petrify”
#agates
I used to have 100’s of ‘polished’ goodies ! The two moonies I milled 50yrs ago for Mothers Day ear rings (the clasps were repurposed a while back)
