Good News-Bad News & Yuck!

This is what the stones look like after they've been tumbled. The grit and water form a slurry and the rock debris gets mixed in, yuck! That's why the stones have to be washed after each tumble. The good news is the second stage is finished and the stones are coming along nicely. The bad news is I won't have any time to tumble them again for a little over a week. It's OK, I'm a professional, I'll deal with it in my own way, sniff, sniff.

 

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It doesn't work the way I thought, WIP Wednesday

Let the games begin! I finished second cut and started tumbling yesterday.

When I first heard about tumbling stones I had a visual image of rocks inside some kind of drum bouncing around and beating each other senseless. First of all, I'm pretty sure rocks don't have any sense. Secondly, my tumbler has no drum of any kind. The tumbling action is created through vibration, and the stones slowly rotate against each other. So the tumbling action is more like the episode of the Carol Burnett Show, where Tim Conway as the old man falls down the stairs in super slow motion. But not nearly so funny, and for a much longer duration.

If you look closely you can see my dalmatian Dalmatian in the tumbler.
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