Can You Tumble Random Rocks?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.พ. 2023
- Often times when people first get a new rock tumbler, they wonder if they are able to tumble any random rock. Well today, we are going to put that to the test! Using grit, ceramic media, and all my other tips and tricks, we will see if we can make any type of rock shine!
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I am so glad I'm not the only person who has buckets of random rocks that have no real purpose but get kept forever because each rock is special. It's a lifestyle.
Haha oh 100% 🤣
Definitely not the only one. I have several years worth of rocks to tumble. Never know what's going to turn out in the end.
I feel ya. I can't resist picking up a rock that looks cool.
@GloFreak That's me since I was s child lol😂. Everyone just thinks it's weird. I end. Decorate with these rocks lol 😂
It really is for me.
I've got an old plastic peanut butter jar filled with raw agates I picked out of gravel pits when I worked as a truck driver hauling gravel in to a factory that made prefab reinforced concrete, some 30 odd years ago. As I was the only lady driver in the company, the guys I worked with started picking out any cool rocks they found for me as well. Never got a tumbler, and when I took my 'umble collection to a rock club to see if they'd tumble them for me, they sniffed at my collection and said it wouldn't be worth the time. This makes me want to get a tumbler myself and give it a go - I bet my little agates would shine up just fine if even this bunch of random rocks came out so pretty...
Absolutely!! I’m sorry you had that kind of reaction-and you definitely should polish them! I bet they would turn out beautiful!
In my experience, people with funky hobbies are either gatekeeping turds or so excited to have a new hobby-buddy they'll drop everything to induct you into their flock.
I'm sorry you ran into the former.
You should do it. I bet you got some good agates. I’d love to see the raw rocks you have in the peanut butter jar. Get a tumbler!
I don’t know how high quality they are but I know harbor freight sells a tumbler that is pretty affordable. Just my two cents.
Do it!
My biology professor always said "there's no such thing as a failed experiment, record everything that happens, you can always learn from it". That's definitely what happened here, i think we all learned a lot from this! I have no idea how i ended up here btw, i was randomly recommended this video. I love seeing people's hobbies and how interesting they are!
Well I’m glad you are here!
I do batches of random rocks for my girls and their friends. They spend so much time picking through for their favorites and trade them with their friends for hours. I set up my light table and give them magnifying glasses and lupes they can share
Oh that is awesome! I hope to do that one day!
@Agate Ariel it really renewed my love of rocks. They don't care about rarity or value. They care about shiny and pretty. We get a type granite that's about 70% beautiful red crystals and our driveway is full of it. Once they're polished they're stunning and the neighborhood kids treat them like diamonds
@@boulderboyv10 Pikes Peak red? That stuff makes a pretty tumbled stone. Made a few paperweights from it!
@Mel Hawk it's a local granite (alberta rocky mountains) as far as I can tell
@@boulderboyv10 nice! For whatever reason, the Rockies seem to produce some truly pretty red granite!
I know nothing about rock tumbling but I do think it's cool how the process brought out a lot of bright colors and patterns you couldn't see before, low key makes me want to get a tumbler someday
Right! It definitely brings out their beauty! You definitely should! Tumbling is so fun!
How about today?
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We do random rocks a lot in our tumblers....our whole family are constantly picking up rocks to put in the tumblers to see how they turn out....those turned out good 👍
It can definitely be fun trying out different rocks in the tumbler-and some can really surprise you!
I am impressed by your commitment to rock tumbling as well as mint chocolate chip ice cream
🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂 love this
10:40. I really like how the basalt looks, even though it didn't come out the best I still really just love how it looks with that texture, it really compliments the dark color of the stone.
Right I agree actually! The texture does look pretty cool!
I feel like these would make really cool additions to aquariums.
The final product for me is kind of nostalgic, just cause it looks like the polished rocks you could get in the grab bins of so so so many gift shops across the country, at least when I was younger. Much to the annoyance of my dad since my brother and I ALWAYS had to get a bag of those random rocks, to the point that I still have a box of them in my nightstand XD I love it, and so glad I came across your video.
Oh right!! Those gift shop rocks have a very fond place in my heart for sure!!
I’m 30 and I still have my shiny rocks from the natural history museum.
i grew up in the 60s tumbling found rocks with my grandpa, and i still have a few of them.
i actually didn't even realise some people bought special rocks to tumble until my 20s!
and i LOVE how yours turned out!
Oh that’s so awesome! I love the connection you have with your grandpa 😊
First time I have heard of buying rocks
I did the same with my grampa!!
Finding your own rocks is great. I spent a couple months working in Spain and my girlfriend picked up tons of rocks on the beaches. We used a Mohs hardness kit and separated them by hardness before tumbling them. We ended up with fantastic results, and it was a lot more fun than just using rocks that we ordered.
That’s awesome! Glad you had a good result!
I got a tumble-polisher when I was a kid and just dug stones out of the garden to feed it. We're on glacial till so there was a huge variety of gorgeous reds and browns from all parts north. I made pendants and bracelets from some, filled the dishes around plant pots with the rest. The tumbler's long gone but I never broke the habit of picking up random rocks :)
Yes!! I love stories like that!
I moved not very far but far enough to get away from the glacial till...i loved seeing all the cool rocks in my backyard. Now I'm getting really into rocks and... I'm in swamp 😂
When I first started tumbling, I grabbed random rocks from our driveway and from the road side! It was a good way to practice and some came out really nice. I love your quartz piece, the red ones are kind of like jasper! They are also pretty!!! Fun project!
Thank you! Yes it’s always so exciting getting a new tumbler and testing different pieces!
I think it was a success. I really like the random textures and colors. I'm always bringing small pretty rocks home to my wife that I find while walking my dog. Thanks for sharing.
That’s awesome! I was pleasantly surprised at the results!
I think this was a great experiment. They turned out a lot better than I thought they would. Wow, that slurry was crazy thick and muddy. I'm glad you did this. 👩🔬
Right! I was so surprised how thick the slurry remained throughout!
@@AgateAriel Do the slurry have any application? Like, can you put it into a mold and cook it like potery to make a brick os something, for example? Or as some sort of cement/binder? Mix with clay, maybe?
@@Archos777 I’m not sure actually! I’ve never tried it!
Maybe I’m basic, but I think they turned out pretty :)
Im not sure what I would use them for, but I think they would look really pretty embedded in clay as a showcase of local geological colors and textures
On that note, I’m reminded of a time around 2012, this great art store in St Paul called Wet Paint carried a really nice watercolor brand where some of the paints were actual crushed up pigments (ie: the amethyst was crush amethyst). The brand made a local paint for every state. Minnesota’s we’re crushed up clay pipes and it was a beautiful, warm, earthy brown.
But anyway, fun video. Thank you for sharing :)
Yup, it was a lot of fun. Random rocks give a random polish. You never know until you try. Now you know. Thanks for taking us along on the journey.
Definitely! 😊
All of my rocks are stuff I’ve picked up on walks or from the North Shore. I don’t think I’d just go grab a bunch of rocks and dirt off a road and tumble though. Thanks for sharing and thanks for helping us learn.
Of course!
I pick up rocks and penny's. I'm going to try tumbling with my grandson. We're going to use some of the rocks I've picked up along the way.
Good to see I'm not alone in grabbing random rocks to see what happens. So much satisfaction in the little triumphs.
I love the hidden gems you found in there. More than a few looked great, but I would definitely vote for the creamy yellow one. 😉
Right! It’s so satisfying to see how beautiful some become!
Bought my kid a tumbler kit for Christmas one year, didn't realize you had to keep it running for weeks 😂
Haha it does take a while that’s for sure!
Patience is something we all need a little bit of work on these days, right?
I am in the process of purchasing one for my neice and this was a pleasant surprise
@@TrishHalterman I prayed for patience and God told me to wait 😂
@@nunyabusiness3920 i needed that laugh, ty 😂
I would never have guessed the wnd result was just random rocks that had been tumbled. They all looked cool in their own way.
I'm 76, former Infantry Marine with 28 months in combat, college grad, design engineer, and am teaching my 9 year old granddaughter how to "Tumble Rocks", as I bought her a Rock Tumbler for her 10th birthday. I loved your video, I'll have granddaughter watch it with me today, then we'll follow your instructions. She is wildly excited and frankly so am I, but I'm more excited by her excitement then anything of my own making. But..., ..., I can't wait to see our end result together. Thanks so much for making this video!
It’s the little imperfections that make a stone unique. I like the one with little green/blue pock marks in it.
Yes!! That one is awesome!
Me and my dad did this when I was very young. It turned out very similarly. Then we got special rocks to tumble but honestly as a kid I liked the random ones from the neighborhood better!
I really liked the speckled rocks you were showing at the end of the video! I know some didn’t get as shiny but I’m sure they feel really neat! I would say what types of rocks they are but I’m still pretty new to the hobby! Love to always be learning more though!
Thanks for sharing! Yes they did feel pretty cool!
Love these! I’m from Washington county missouri and we have a lot of calcite and quartz in the area. My personal favorite is red jasper!
Jaspers are so awesome!! Greta to tumble too!
Hey there! So, I'm living out my childhood wishes through our daughter. For Christmas, we purchased her a NatGeo Platinum tumbler. I've made no secrets in letting her and my wife know that part of this gift was for me too. She turned 10 the 1st week of Feb and she know has about 6 pounds of rocks to tumble. We did two loads and sorted out ones to move on and ones to redo in different steps and just today, we started the step 4 polish. We are so excited to see how they turn out! I like that you did this experiment as I was wondering how this would play out. Thank you for this. Also, We are planning a trip to Minnesota early fall to see my brother. I hear North Shore of Lake Superior is a great place to rockhound. Can you share any good places to spend a few hours as I'm planning a couple days of exploration?
I love that you can share your passion with your daughter! I can’t wait to do that one day with my own children.
Minnesota is awesome for rockhounding! Any rocky lake shore you are bound to find some good rocks. Some of my favorite places are the rocky shores of Lake Superior, Grand Marais, and Moose Lake! Also if you do visit Lake Superior a great place to check out is black beach! It’s a beach with black sand and it’s really cool! Not many rocks to find there though. Hope that helps!
@@AgateAriel thank you for sharing this information. Black Beach sounds interesting. If we have time after hounding, we'll need to check that out. Have a great day and my daughter and I are looking forward to new vids
Oh, and btw, all of them. Lol! Especially the multi-colored ones.
You want to go to the Franklin Mineral Show in Franklin NJ - not much to do around there, especially that time of year, but they have a lot of interesting rocks at the show, and if you sign up you can visit a quarry where they mine franklinite, a special fluorescent mineral found nowhere else. (It doesn't look like much when it's not under black light.)
I've tumbled a number of random rocks and, like you, found that some turn out way better than expected and others not so much. I really like the epidote.
Right! The cool little clear knob on the epidote was so unique!
i think this experiment went well. you can tell from the first tumble which ones are basalt and which ones are quartz and etc. maybe you can pick out the ones that you know will look good and do that a couple times until you have enough to continue with. also honestly i love the satin finish on the basalt. it might not sparkle like the quartz but it feels so elegant.
They turned out so pretty. Shows why you never judge the outside because something amazing is just beneath.
I’m just now discovering that rock tumbling is even a thing, but I love these. The colors are so pretty!
Just stumbled upon your channel. As a child I had a massive rock collection. I liked the milky cortz out of all the ones you tumbled. However my personal favorite would be amethyst .
Welcome aboard! Rocks are so awesome!
What a great video!!! I've been tumbling for probly around 11yrs and 2yrs ago my kids brought a couple handfuls of 1/4in or less rocks from the driveway, I tumbled them, and was actually shocked at how shiny and awesome they looked haha
Edit: I said 1/5 I stead if 1/4
Oh that is awesome! Sometimes you can get good ones that way!
TH-cam just recommended this video out of nowhere and this sure is gonna be my new fascination!
honestly really into how all of the stones turned out, I've been asking myself this question for so many years but never had a tumbler. Thank you!
Loved this!!! This is exactly the kinda stuff I wanna do with a rock tumbler!
I was super impressed how they looked after the first tumble.
Excellent, this process with the little grabble rocks is something that many people like me was wondering but that we never did, so you gave us that chance to see. Thank you!!
Glad I found your channel. I’ve collected rocks for so many years and have always wanted to get into polishing them. I think my favorite might be that smaller black one you showed towards the end, with the white lines throughout!
This reminds me of my mother, thanks for that.
Due to various reasons and us kids supplying her with river rocks, she got a bit into rock tumbling. She didn't really get into the high polish end as I recall, mostly just cleaning them up to get the minerals to show.
So you most definitely can tumble random rocks to reasonable success and I have the scent memory to prove it.
That’s so awesome! Thank you for sharing!
My toddler collects rocks, a trait in the family 😂. I think eventually he'll be tumbling his rocks to give them a gloss or shine. I believe the experiment was a success.
I am so glad I discovered your channel. I can watch you tumble rocks all day.❤
I have hundreds of rocks in my room and a lil beginner rock tumbler in the other room that I haven't tried yet. this video is the thing that's going to push me to actually try it!! thank you!
That's a beautiful mix of colors and patterns, it could be a great decoration for an aquarium or a potted plant.
Right!! That’s a great idea!
I love this!! Thank you for making these videos. I've waited my whole life to get a rock tumbler and my husband is getting me one for my birthday!! I can't wait!
Thank you for doing this. I was curious about this myself. I do think that the rocks came out cool!
Thanks for doing this video. I always thought about doing this. Being new to tumbling I find all rocks fascinating and unique. So I don't have a favorite because everything is new and pretty 😄.
That’s awesome! I’m glad you enjoyed it 😊
I love your videos. I thought I would thank some of my favourite TH-camrs. I'm an armchair rockhound. I can't actually go myself because a stroke has left me partially disabled and affected my balance, but I do enjoy it vicariously through you and others.
Wow thank you so much! I’m glad you can come along on our adventures!
I love those rocks!!!! They came out very well for random. This has peaked my interest and enlightened me. I never knew it took that long and so much material. Thanks for doing this because I love random.❤
I’ve always wonder what would happen if I did this. Thanks for doing the work.
I really like the ones at 11:13 and especially 11:18. Great experiment though, you ought to do an experiment like this but with a bag or bucket of landscaping rocks.
Oh great idea!
I want to watch you tumble that entire bucket that would be cool and then color coordinate them and see what all a five pound bucket yields. Makes me want a five pound bucket of rocks. I’ve been preparing to get my first rock tumbler soon and I’m sooo excited!!
Oh that would be cool! Definitely would take a LOT of grit though! Haha
Thank you so much for making this video! I collect random rocks I find beautiful. Now I know for sure that I want to invest in a tumbler.
Thanks for this. I am just starting and have a double batch in the tumbler in grit one. Rocks I collected with my wife at a day at the beach, so good head start.
as someone who used to get polished rocks from tourist traps as a kid, i would always choose the wonky ones because they seemed to have their own interesting "story" 😂 i love how these randos turned out, i am partial to the red ones myself!
Not bad at all for random, turned out pretty nice, showing you can find decent stuff pretty much anywhere thanks.
Absolutely! There are great rocks everywhere! 😊
This was something I've always wondered!!! So happy to see what it actually turns out as.
I think anything that’s an experiment is a success! You learned and observed new things :)
As to the basalt, we didn’t expect much, they still look nice and a few ended up shinier than I’d anticipated.
My biggest concern was the varying hardnesses, but they fared pretty well!
I just found your channel and I’m so excited to see what kind of content you’ve got.
I am also a rock lover and I’ll watch other people do what I do because I can’t get enough. ROCKS RULE.
And yes, I know that “rock” isn’t the correct term, that we have minerals, fossils and gemstones but whatever, I love them all! I love rocks, love them in a box, with a Fox eating lox.
Another successful video. Always going the extra mile to do what no one else will.
i.e. like the time you put all the grits and polish in one cycle just to see and actually they didn't come out that bad lol.
Oh well thank you-I’m glad you liked it!
They all look pretty good, imo. I prefer to tumble glass but now I wanna try this.
Oh and I want to try tumbling glass!
As someone who has been collecting random rocks for the past 5+ years, this is extremely encouraging to me! I was gifted a tumbler last Christmas and I am only now researching to finally tumble my EXTENSIVE rock collection. It ranges from obsidian, agate, petrified wood, quartz, and many more random rocks I find in gravel pits and job sites. Thank you for this!! I got excited just seeing the end result seeing all the beautiful patterns, colors, and shapes of just some random rocks :D Edit: I would say the experiment is a success!
I think they came out lovely. Unique
These would be gorgeous in a lot of crafts or in aquaria/terraria.
I have been picking up rocks since I was 5 years old. I have three brothers but I was the only one with rocks in my pockets. I often wonder what my poor mother did with them all,lol. I LOVE rocks, they’re fascinating geographic artifacts for me. I’m not certain that I have a favorite, they’re all favorites for one reason or another.
So true! Love that it’s a life long hobby!
Hey Sherri, I just saw your user name and wanted to say Semper Fi to another WM!
@@JuleahStrickland Semper Fi Sister! Picking up rocks makes sense to us, lol.
🤣🤣🤣 my folks live in Lejeune and when I visit them, my mom and I go to Onslow Beach. She never fails to ask if we are police calling allllll the rocks on the beach. Lol
Great results from an experiment! I really liked the reddish one at the end of the video. I love when you get cool results from what you're tumbling. I'm still new at this and watch different videos to learn more. Thanks for this 😃
Oh boy, after the first step when she says "there are no real stunners" I was already absolutely enamoured with every single one
Ooohhh there's so many to choose from that I'd consider a "favorite"... maybe 🤔 🤔🤔 Hagstones? Or corals. I'm **really** good at finding both of those when I'm out picking. But the druzy Coral fossils are always my fav kinds of finds 😊
Good choices!
Her: a couple of these might have some potential
Me: I LOVE EVERY ROCK EVER I LOVE THEM ALL!!!
I tumble rocks that initially were purchased as landscape materials. I did get a lot of pretty finished rocks that I am using to make jewelry including jasper, carnelian, and many quartz. Also they are often smooth enough to skip the first grit tumble. I use a dremel tool to smooth out imperfections and sand to a nice polish.
I'm so glad you made this video. I've never done any rock tumbling, and probably won't, but I love that you took so much time to do this and put it all together for us!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
How did your family handle the cold last week?
I liked the random rock tumble.
Did well! How about you?
That “stone” color of the sludge upon opening the container is Really beautiful.
It’s so cool the colors you see sometimes in the slurry!
Answered my biggest question about tumbling.
Thanks!
I actually really like how these turned out
ewwie gewies...lol...i love your positivity!!! thanks for sharing the experiment, Ariel!
Haha of course! 😊🙌
Success! They're all unique.
keep up the good work! very satisfying video
This was fun to watch. I thought they all looked great! Thanks for the video!
Glad you enjoyed!
The final product looks a lot like the rocks I find in the river which... is really not at all surprising since the river basically tumbles random rocks.
Right!! Very true! 😊
You managed to make me watch the entire video, I'd call it a success. 😂
This is the best compliment I can hear! 😎
Total success
Thanks for sharing this I just bought a tumbler and I've been reluctant to try it out . Now I'm inspired. Thank you.
Of course! I hope you enjoy it!!
Haha aw man...NO BORAX until state 3 at least....it just a waste of borax is all, ya it helps throughout but it's not needed till stage 3
You’re right! The clip with the borax was from a couple months ago before I learned that 😊
@AgateAriel perfect! I still love your uploads Ariel!! I've been a tumbler for a decade now and I love it! I really do enjoy your content too, its awesome, and my kids love it too!!!
@@koreyhayden1368 that’s awesome thank you so much!
I havent really been into rocks i'm more of a "flip a rock to find a bug" person but I have always wondered this exact thing.
Always wanted a tumbler but never got around to getting one
Edit: Thank you for making this video. This question had been hanging around my mind for almost 15 years. Now I know!
That’s awesome! Glad I could help 😊
Wow...thanks so much for posting this!!! I don't know if anyone else has done random stones in their tumblers. Some of those came out GREAT!!! Thanks again...love 😊 your videos.
You are so welcome! Glad it was helpful! 😊
This has taught me I can indeed tumble random rocks, just don't put the dirt and teeny tiny rocks in the barrel 😂
Haha exactly 🤣
SiliCON not siliCONE 🤣
Oh for real?! Haha I’ve always said it like that 🤣
Thanks to Jeopardy everyone likes to correct pronunciation. We all know what she was talking about.
For example, I could say "SiliCON not siliCONE " is not a sentence and be perfectly correct.
@@mrcryptozoic817 The thing is, silicon is the element and silicone is the long chain compound formed with silicon as the backbone. Chemistry-wise, they are very different.
The second one of your favorites was my favorite awesome video always wanted a rock tumbler really enjoy your channel
I really enjoyed watching you tumbling results. It is really neat how they turned out. I liked the black and white ones and several of the other ones .
I just started rock tumbling about 4 or 5 weeks ago, though I've been a rock hound my entire life. I'm glad I found your channel!
Yes I love it!!
That epidote was pretty cool. I like the difference of the high polish with the satin look. My favorite rocks right now are Flower stones I find in my area.
Yes! Sometimes the satin look does turn out pretty cool!
The experiment was awesome! We learned, so I count it as a success.
“Research is thousands of no’s and that one amazing EUREKA!”
Very cool video and I worked amazingly well. I decided to get myself a tumbler to polish my beach and lake area pick ups. I hope they will become stunners.
Thnxs for sharing this vid.
Total success ❤I love that milky quartz. It’s so beautiful.
Great idea for a video. Thanks!
Success, I say. That was fun watching the change from gravel rocks to shiny gravel rocks!
Excellent work!
I love all the rocks I think they turned out beautifully
I love rocks usual matte looks so that basalt sitting in-between shiny and not is so nice lookings. Imperfect but perfect in my eyes