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.
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!
Very beautiful rocks! Pretty colors & designs/patterns. Polished nicely! On some of the rocks on the 1st stage, try sanding/grinding some of the areas that have cracks or pit marks to avoid mass loss.Tumble again on 1st stage & move on when ready.
Thankyou so much I have begun gathering the parts for my very own “Jonus” The results are fantastic I couldn’t get comments to show before, but the photography video…… I thought rock hounding was addicting Scrolling through the photos could take weeks Thankyou again for the examples and tips and real time video of your lawn greening up . sorry, had to make joke! Take care
Thomas - WOW! - what spectacular results! Your patience in assuring all possible (and logical) flaws have been ground out in stage 1 is a great example for all to follow. Keep up the good work - I’m looking forward to more of your hunting and polishing videos in the New Year!
Great video tutorial. I tell newbies on the first stage, 80 to 100% free of flaws. Sometimes flaws can't be worked out completely, but stage 2 will grind them down a little more, not much. I use borax to clean the first 3 stages, and ivory soap after the last stage. I found that borax leaves a residue on the polished rocks, ivory does not.
Happy holidays! Great polish on your stones! And a very good tutorial! I'm not trying to step on any toes here, but it's a lot less expensive to get stones worthy of tumbling at a landscape rock supply yard. In many places in and around Minnesota, there's a good chance to find jasper, quartz, petrified wood, agates and other similar varieties in landscaping stones. As nice as they turn out visually, it's just too hard for me to participate in the express erosion of stones that are over a billion years old. Especially with so many pitted surfaces and stress fractures already present in most of the agates that I've found. But they sure do look great tumbled! Thanks for the upload!
Awesome video. I got a used flat lap, had to get a couple more discs that were missing. Just started using it. I still want to build a tumbler like you did. Might be a summer project for me. Keep rockin!!👍😎
This tutorial will definitely help people with their tumbling process! Merry Christmas Thomas and your family as well! Looking forward to seeing more videos next year! Thanks for sharing!
I just love your video :). I just managed to put my hands on Botswana agate nodules (2 to 4 inches). It seems that you tumbled whole nodules. Did you keep them whole or did you cut them before tumbling them. I am scared to end up with shiny duds or minuscule beauties. Can you advise me on the best way for the best result ?
One of the best videos I’ve seen. Thank you for sharing. You have given me hope for mine 😂. After two weeks stage one I wasn’t hopeful, now I know that’s normal ❤. Love from the uk 😊xxxx
Wonderful job Thomas! The agates look great! We've enjoyed your videos and are looking forward to more in the future. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Go to look really nice you do a good job 👍 thanks for your show I'm new out here in from the ancient ruins out west I've studied the western United States there's a lot of ancient ruins out there that they don't like people to know are there I'm sure King David would love your stones I'm sure you would fling them at Goliath OUT WEST.......
So I see that you spend a lot of time doing this and just wondering what you do with all these shiney rock? Cause you are Michigan rocks never say what you do with them
We had a well-known mummy at Yellowstone that was found and he carbon-dated it a million-and-a-half years old the guy actually died when Theodore Roosevelt was president
Wait, so you can add raw rocks to ones that have already been tumbled? And I just started a batch of agates and your video is showing me that it will probably actually take me months to get the results I am hoping for. It's only my second time so I hope I can be patient.
He just dated back a million half years old because the area he went through under Yellowstone dated that far back...... Different nuclear materials make things date differently
nice job, thanks for sharing you knowledge.
Thanks for all your hard work and patience in producing this valuable video that is teaching us your valuable skills .
Thank you. This is awesome
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.
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!
Very beautiful rocks! Pretty colors & designs/patterns. Polished nicely! On some of the rocks on the 1st stage, try sanding/grinding some of the areas that have cracks or pit marks to avoid mass loss.Tumble again on 1st stage & move on when ready.
I enjoyed your video very much,thanks for doing this video.
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.
Welcome back! Missed your videos. Merry Christmas!
Thankyou so much
I have begun gathering the parts for my very own “Jonus”
The results are fantastic
I couldn’t get comments to show before, but the photography video……
I thought rock hounding was addicting
Scrolling through the photos could take weeks
Thankyou again for the examples and tips and real time video of your lawn greening up . sorry, had to make joke!
Take care
Thomas - WOW! - what spectacular results! Your patience in assuring all possible (and logical) flaws have been ground out in stage 1 is a great example for all to follow. Keep up the good work - I’m looking forward to more of your hunting and polishing videos in the New Year!
Merry Christmas, thanks for the informative tutorial. The anticipation is so hard. Especially for the newbies!
Great video tutorial. I tell newbies on the first stage, 80 to 100% free of flaws. Sometimes flaws can't be worked out completely, but stage 2 will grind them down a little more, not much. I use borax to clean the first 3 stages, and ivory soap after the last stage. I found that borax leaves a residue on the polished rocks, ivory does not.
Yay! A new video. Missed ya.
your agate collection is very large, all look beautiful and quality friends.
I’ll be using this video for my very first tumbling thank you!🤘🏽
Happy holidays!
Great polish on your stones! And a very good tutorial!
I'm not trying to step on any toes here, but it's a lot less expensive to get stones worthy of tumbling at a landscape rock supply yard. In many places in and around Minnesota, there's a good chance to find jasper, quartz, petrified wood, agates and other similar varieties in landscaping stones.
As nice as they turn out visually, it's just too hard for me to participate in the express erosion of stones that are over a billion years old. Especially with so many pitted surfaces and stress fractures already present in most of the agates that I've found. But they sure do look great tumbled!
Thanks for the upload!
Fantastic batch of agate, Thomas. I feel these rank among your best. Good to see you back and have a festive holiday!
Awesome results! Very informational. Thanks for sharing
Thank you. Merry Christmas
Awesome video. I got a used flat lap, had to get a couple more discs that were missing. Just started using it. I still want to build a tumbler like you did. Might be a summer project for me.
Keep rockin!!👍😎
great job. beautiful results
This tutorial will definitely help people with their tumbling process! Merry Christmas Thomas and your family as well! Looking forward to seeing more videos next year! Thanks for sharing!
I just love your video :). I just managed to put my hands on Botswana agate nodules (2 to 4 inches). It seems that you tumbled whole nodules. Did you keep them whole or did you cut them before tumbling them. I am scared to end up with shiny duds or minuscule beauties. Can you advise me on the best way for the best result ?
One of the best videos I’ve seen. Thank you for sharing. You have given me hope for mine 😂. After two weeks stage one I wasn’t hopeful, now I know that’s normal ❤. Love from the uk 😊xxxx
Well worth the wait!!! Great looking rocks ❣️ Merry Christmas 🎄 Thank you for all your work!
This is really good stuff!! People will learn from this vid!! Merry Christmas to you and your family!!
Great stuff, please keep it coming!
Wonderful job Thomas! The agates look great! We've enjoyed your videos and are looking forward to more in the future. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
I thought putting jagged rocks in with the more polished ones cause pitting and damage to the more polished rocks. Am I wrong?
Very nice polish. Sending you Air hugs of positive loving energy to you and yours. May all your tumbles shine
Nicely done!! thanks for sharing!
Wow ! Great job !
Watching this video to learn how to shine my hand picked Montana agates
Really good!!!!!
Go to look really nice you do a good job 👍 thanks for your show
I'm new out here in from the ancient ruins out west I've studied the western United States there's a lot of ancient ruins out there that they don't like people to know are there I'm sure King David would love your stones I'm sure you would fling them at Goliath OUT WEST.......
I use a more aggressive grit, 36 SiC, and it takes like 3 days in a wet rotary tumbler. The next stage is 600 SiC.
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?
Jou make it good shine
So I see that you spend a lot of time doing this and just wondering what you do with all these shiney rock? Cause you are Michigan rocks never say what you do with them
We had a well-known mummy at Yellowstone that was found and he carbon-dated it a million-and-a-half years old the guy actually died when Theodore Roosevelt was president
Ok
Wait, so you can add raw rocks to ones that have already been tumbled?
And I just started a batch of agates and your video is showing me that it will probably actually take me months to get the results I am hoping for. It's only my second time so I hope I can be patient.
I got this stones
He just dated back a million half years old because the area he went through under Yellowstone dated that far back...... Different nuclear materials make things date differently