Rock Tumbling Tiger's Eye - Full tutorial start to finish
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 มี.ค. 2024
- This is my method for rock tumbling Tiger's Eye from rough to final polish. I ran stage 1 for 16 cycles before I had enough to fill my vibratory tumbler for stage 2, 3, 4. I only show a few cycles of stage one because they are all very repetitive. Thanks for watching and let me know how you think they turned out! Like's, questions, and subscribes are always appreciated! Here are some specific reviews on the equipment I used:
Stage 1 National Geographic Hobby tumbler: • National Geographic Ro...
Stage 2,3,4 Raytech TV-5
• Raytech TV-5 Vibratory... - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
nice, I've always found tigers eye to be both beautiful and fascinating.
Very nice looking tiger-eye. You SHOULD reconsider your cleaning method. Dumping your rock snot into your sink and sink drain may clog your drains. That rock snot can solidify even when submerged in water. I dump all of my clean out material into a 5 gallon bucket and then dump that bucket outside.
Great advice! You can't tell in the video but my shop sink doesn't have a drain. It just drips into a 5 gallon bucket and then disposed of in the yard in spots where I don't want weeds growing :)
Great video!. Do you ever feel grit still there when you change out that Tumblr every 3 days? I also have a Nat Geo and I usually just run it the same as my other ones😊
Occasionally I do on softer rocks but as a general rule its basically all used up after 3 days. 4 would be the most. It doesn't hurt at all to run it longer it just doesn't work as well as fresh grit.
@@RockOnUtah thank you!!! I appreciate your help!!!
Those turned out nice. Do you ever finish them in a rotary tumbler? I'm just starting out and only have the National Geographic 2lb tumbler. Just wondering if I'll need to get a vibratory tumbler as well to end up with that nice of a result. Thank you!
You can finish them in a Nat Geo tumbler and get great results. Im working on a full tutorial for that exact tumbler right now but will probably be a couple months before its done. The main reason I prefer the vibratory is that its a lot faster but you can absolutely get good results with the rotary!
@@RockOnUtah Thank you for the information. Looking forward to seeing the tutorial.
1 more question! Lol. You mentioned using AO 500 rather than SC 500. Can you explain why?
Aluminum Oxide is supposed to be better for polish and Silicon Carbide for grinding. I personally have never noticed a difference and I have used some of both. On softer stones maybe the AO would be more noticeable. Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
@RockOnUtahn that makes sense. I have both, I will take your advice abd use the AO on the soft ones. Again thanks
@@RockOnUtah thank you! Since I have both, I will use AO for the sift stuff!!!!