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Thank you, that was informitive and fun to watch

I have an old double barrel that was driving me crazy with the barrels stopping the rolling. You are a genius! This thing is now working like it always dependably did. Thanks!!

This could be the best agate video on TH-cam!!! Thank you for sharing it.

Excellent video and thank you for sharing it!! I just cleaned a 1.475 lb agate following your instructions and it turned out amazing.

so what do you do with the big agates? do you cut them or polish them or what?

The stripey gray thing is banded iron. The lure is an old Bass-Oreno. Nice find! That moss agate is amazing, and that big one, are you going to cut it?

I LOVE the bits of humor. Good video with lots of advise. Thanks for sharing your experiences and knowledge.

I got this stones

That loud sound on the CE is the bearings going out. You gotta keep them lubed

This is an awesome video. I'm currently tumbling my 1st batch of LSA, after 5 weeks I'm finally ready to move some in to stage 2🥳🥳 I have referred your video multiple times through the process. This video is greatly appreciated.

Hi! Great video, thank you! What can you say about these rubberized barrels? These are the barrels that are sold with ball mills on Aliexpress. I bought one and ground coal with glass balls for 8 hours. The result is not very good. The grinding is bad, the coal shines and sticks to the walls, although I dried it at a temperature of 100 degrees Celsius for about an hour. However, I saw many videos on TH-cam using such rubberized barrels and the result is good. What could be the problem? Do you need heavier balls? Lead or brass? I tried with different rotation speeds

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fishing lure reminds me of some old south bend brand lures. Not sure it is but similar.. Enjoying the videos I'm new to rock hounding but have found a few small agates with help from these videos.

I'd love to use my wood lathe, but I also don't want to run a 1 HP motor for a week 😂

Watching this video to learn how to shine my hand picked Montana agates

I'm just curious, do you search road near the lake shore or just anywhere

Thanks!

Thank you for taking us along on your hunt. You are so good at showing and helping to identify

Thank you for showing the process! You’ve inspired me to put my agates in a tumbler - I hope to see beautiful results like the ones shown here. Cheers!

NICE

You have a good imagination 😅😅😅😅

It’s just a rock dude 😂😂😂

Piss in it 😂😂😂

River rocks 🪨 😅😅😅😅

Great video! I love the detail that you go into and the fact that you take such pride in tumbling these rocks to get them so pretty and shiny.

amazing finds, thanks for the tips n tricks broski

Very informative and well presented video young man. Plus the examples supporting the commentary were helpful. The dry humor didn’t hurt.

Nicely done!! thanks for sharing!

Are the Lake Superior agates all the red color? How do you find them along the beach under the water? Good job.

Exceptionally helpful video! I have been cab wheeling some of my bevy of LSAs and just selected my first batch to tumble after I found an unintentionally included agate come out of a previous tumble.

I watched this video for maybe the third time. You two have the same dry, funny, casual sense of humor that is very relaxing to watch and I’m not be so terribly jealous of your finds on this mystery beach. I’ll be back on Lake Huron in Sept while on our trip to the Soo. You guys are inspiring. Thanks.

Where were you finding these little gems?

such amazing finds. Thank you for sharing your knowledge what to look for

Dude I don’t think that’s granite that’s an agate… I could be wrong considering I only saw it for like a moment. But

So cool I never find rocks like that in Washington but my house is full of agates and petrified wood

I stirred the citric acid well with hot water and than soaked the agates in them. The agates now have a white coating. Any idea what it is and how to get rid of it?

What Unit or lake are you around? I’m about to head up camping w my 9 year old son again and we always find nice rock, but would love to know where the big rock dump areas are as I really only know the trails and campgrounds. Any scoops on where to look would be great!

i have a little National Geographic rock tumbler with 3 speed settings. what speed should i use and is it the same speed for all of the stages?

Nice video--I've been there a handful of times. Unfortunately, this area has become recently well-known. The amount of staurolite crystals has become quite depleted, compared to years ago. However, it may be best to look for them in the spring, soon after the winter season ends.

Awesome!! I thought about skateboard griptape but this looks like it dose the job

This is what a cross rock looks like 9:04

This is what a cross rock looks like

This is what a cross rock looks like

Thanks! I'm really new to this, and second guess my finds a lot. I haven't found any agates yet around the Twin Cities(mostly a lot of jasper and granite I think), but I hope to find some soon!

Thomas where have you been?

I hope to see you create more videos soon just recently found your channel and I’m really enjoying it

I've been collecting gates, fossils and other minerals for almost 50 years. In my early years I tried out several types of tumblers and as mentioned, there are definitely pros and cons. I recall having some small, beautifully banded eye agates collected from local beaches. Having gone through the various grits to get to the polishing stage, not only had the eyes patterns nearly all been lost, but the colours were altering from blue tones to more reds and yellows as the exterior patina was worn away. The results were nicely polished stones, but the character and initial charm had changed dramatically and often, somewhat regrettably. In my location we have access to different beaches that produce both amygdaloid-types formed in basalt flows that were eroded out of their host rock and we have thunder- egg types that obviously come from an entirely different formation, but also related to volcanic processes. These latter types, when tumbled showed a frequent tendency to fractures and breaks as they are not as resistant as those formed in basalt. I quickly grew an appreciation for any agates that had an attractive natural exterior and gradually backed away from tumblers. However, often agates will show rough irregularities or naturally occurring, unattractive breaks or rough surfaces full of cavities or other imperfection. These types of compromised specimens can be greatly improved and often made into excellent specimens with a little work. I started pre-working rough stones using various grades of diamond grind stones to do the rough preparations prior to tumbling. But more importantly, I switched from rotating tumblers to vibrator tumblers. Once a specimen had been worked enough to repair rough spots, I'd get them into the vibrator tumblers for the final pre-polish and final polishing stages. I've found that vibrator tumblers are far less damaging and produce much more rapid results than rotating tumblers, the caveat being that its the initial prep work of grinding that greatly enhances the results and speed up the final polishing. In addition plastic pellets or other media can be used to cushion the stones and they also serve to help distribute the abrasives. One thing about vibrator tumblers, they tend not to wear or smooth irregularities in a rough specimen, unlike a rotating tumbler. Rather, vibrators tend to smooth out all the various shapes of a stone so that it will retain its basic form. So if you want to have significant removal of irregularities, a rotating tumbler will be better suited to that purpose, but you may also experience more fracturing, especially if you are tumbling large specimens. I always check over rough agates carefully before deciding what, if any treatment they will require. Sometimes on stones with a relatively smooth natural patina, all they need is a bit of mineral oil to enhance their features. Of course the various regions agates come from will obviously have an influence on the type of treatments they will be subjected to. Collectors of the famous Fairburn Agates and Lake superior agates very often leave agates with their natural patina, enhanced perhaps with a bit of oil. Mexican Laguna agates however will be best enjoyed by cutting and exposing their in internal feathres which would otherwise be concealed by their exterior husk. In any event, collectors will, with some time and experience find out what suits their tastes and one of the most fascinating aspect of every collection is their uniqueness. While some agates will share certain characteristics, they are like snow flakes -- no two are exactly the same.

Feldspar is also moonstone, labradorite, and Sunstones. There is a good chance that that feldspar was just shiny because of the cleavage.

Nice presentation buddy.