How to Rock Tumble Labradorite

Welcome to Crystal Wellness Studio’s How-To-Rock Tumble #RockTumbling series! This video tackles #Labradorite from start to finish! We’ll show you how we did it, provide our complete timeline for each stage, and show you the end results.
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Disclaimer: Crystal Wellness Studio is not sponsored in any way by any of the products or equipment we feature in our videos. Any recommendations come from our personal experience with the product or equipment, from our own research and experimentation.
Crystal Wellness Studio is a Lortone believer for rock tumblers. We run our barrels 24/7 all year long and have no issues with the equipment. (Except that one time we overloaded the six-pound barrels on our QT66-but that was our fault, not the equipment.)
Model numbers for the tumblers we use:
3-1.5 is a 1.5-pound barrel capacity unit with three barrels
33B (we have 3 of these units) is a 3-pound barrel capacity unit with two barrels (per unit)
45C is a 4-pound barrel capacity unit with one barrel
QT66 is a 6-pound capacity barrel unit with two barrels
We buy our grit and ceramic media from The Rock Shed exclusively. The owner is awesome to work with and doesn’t screw you on the shipping. Customer service is top-rated in our book and he ships quickly. We even bought a Lortone tumbler from The Rock Shed once when Lortone itself was out of stock!
Tumbling rough we purchase from a variety of vendors. We wanted to compare product and shipping costs from a wide market. Let’s face it, not every vendor carries every rock, and every rock is not always in stock. We have some unboxing videos on the channel if you want to check that process out!
Some of our favorite vendors for rough rock in the United States are The Rock Shed, Gemsbymail.com, Kingsley North, and Stonebridge Imports out of Canada.
Chapters
00:00 How to Rock Tumble Labradorite
00:10 Stage One 46/70 Coarse Silicon Carbide
08:51.89 Stage Two 60/90 Coarse Silicon Carbide
35:47.73 Stage Three Medium 120/220 Coarse Silicon Carbide
46:37.13 Stage Four Pre-Polish Fine Aluminum Oxide
1:02:04.56 Stage Five Pre-Polish Super Fine Aluminum Oxide
1:08:47.30 Stage Six Dry Polish Aluminum Oxide & Corn Cob

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[@larrybates4925]

I feel for you. I had the exact same thing happen. Mine were so beaten up. Could only see the flax when they were wet.

[@edieswearingen9652]

That was a very difficult tumble. I have only tumbled a few of these with other stones. I thought that was why mine failed to polish. Glad to learn it was not just me. You kept at it and pulled most of them out beautifully. I didn't, yet. Thank you for sharing.

[@crystalwellnessstudio6171]

I really want to show the reality of rock tumbling. Not just the successes! thank you so much for watching!

[@larrymoremckenzie3029]

I would guess that the cabbing process is best,these look nothing like the ones i see for sale on instagram!

[@crystalwellnessstudio6171]

Since they are completely different processes and I'm not selling these, you are correct that they look different.