Tumbling Glass - How hard can it be?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ค. 2021
- My goal was to tumble glass in two ways. Some I wanted to make as shiny as possible. I also wanted to try making imitation beach glass.
Thanks to Krystee for the obsidian tumbling recipe that I used for the shiny glass in this video. Here's a link to her excellent instructions: rockhoundlounge.com/yabbfiles/...
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If anyone would like to have this glass, you’re welcome to it. I am not willing to mail it out because I think it would just get broken in transit. So if you live in the Alpena area, or are passing through, come get it. The genuine beach glass is not up for grabs, I’m giving that to my sister.
I get it and share with my 7 Grandkids, 5 in Alpena. We all love looking for Rocks, Fossils and Beachglass. Please Rob, may we have some of your tumbled Beachglass?
I would love to have some of that glass. I'm in Alpena every Monday and Friday.
@@silkeeberle8484 Yes, you can come get some but I’ll be in the UP tomorrow making waterfall videos. How about Thursday?
@@debbielucas7792 How about this Friday? I’m out making videos tomorrow, so I’ll get in touch with you on Thursday.
Hi Rob, I decided to happily withdraw my request for some pieces of the beach glass. I think the viewer and her grandkids would really enjoy it! I think I may do some experimenting with tumbling glass. Another great video!!
I can’t believe you just pulled out fire juggling like it’s nothing!
Yeah right? He's taking these rock tumbling videos up a notch.
@@michaelmarks1391 I have been juggling since college, over 30 years ago. It's kind of natural at this point.
@@MichiganRocks I’ve never been able to even remotely be capable of juggling! I put it down to being right-brained! 😁🤷🏻♀️ Gotta have some advantages to being left-handed, besides the wonderful artistic talent!🙋🏻♀️😄
@@littledabwilldoya9717 I'm not particularly coordinated. I was never good at team sports, although I can water ski and snow ski fairly well. Learning to juggle was a matter of willpower. I just practiced and practiced until I could do it.
@@MichiganRocks I guess I lost interest in trying it when I figured out it wasn’t going to come easy to me.😉 I really miss water skiing. We used to do it quite a bit at one time. My husband liked to pull me back over our wake to see if he could dump me. Love x-country skiing, but couldn’t find anyone to go with me to try downhill. I tried taking my daughters one time- they didn’t want to go back! It’s funny, I was always athletic, but neither of my kids were.😟😢
The 'too perfect' beach glass looks exactly like the stuff I used to hunt for in the PNW, around Puget Sound. Your lake Michigan stuff, I've never really seen before. Funny how glass from different bodies of water looks different.
I hadn't considered when I made this video that all my glass came from rocky beaches. Apparently, sandy beaches produce more uniformly frosted glass. Who knew? I guess you did!
It looks like a lot of what I've seen in California too
@@MichiganRocks The sandy polished rocks looks almost sand blasted
have you looked for beach glass on Whidbey Island Deception Pass in the State Park area there ? my son was stationed I'm Whidbey Island and the last thing he did for me because I couldn't get up there in time to hunt for my own Beach Glass was he stopped in Oak Harbor at a beach glass store and bought me some earrings and the necklace what a sweetheart and very expensive because it's real beach glass found there on the island good luck with your hunting it is beautiful stuff
@@shellilogan771 I assume that's a question for @Promatim. I have never been to that part of the country.
Interesting and fun video. The highlight, of course, has to be the amazing juggling!!
I made that part of the video a couple months ago. I didn't mean to have two juggling videos in a row.
The beach glass you find in my area of the UK mostly looks like the peice you were tumbling before polishing. The beaches here are long and almost entirely sand with few pebbles so it gives the glass a much more uniform smoothness.
Several other people pointed out the same thing. My glass all came from rocky beaches because that's where I'm out looking for rocks. The glass is probably much nicer from sandy beaches. I did this more for the challenge of doing it than for the finished product.
@@MichiganRocks Not to mention, you only left it go for what, 4, 5 days? It probably takes a lot longer to do with sand because you're basically hitting something with something else of an almost equal hardness.
@@ChozoSR388 True, I could have frosted it in much less time with something like silicon carbide grit.
Ive hunted glass on the Fylde coast in the UK and its pretty uniformly frosted. I guess because of the sand.
When you started juggling fire sticks I literally started HOLLERING! YOURE SO COOOOOL! That was the most epic surprise I’ve ever seen in any rock hounding video and it want even a rock. sooo amazing how did you learn to juggle fire?
I learned to juggle from a friend at college. Then I joined the University of Michigan juggling club. Eventually fire and unicycles got included.
@@MichiganRocks that’s so dope! Unicycling & juggling? You did that at the same time? Definitely a jack of many trades
Mother Nature has it all figured out for the making of beach glass. No matter how hard we try, we will never beat the real deal. It was an educational video, Rob. I've collected beach glass for years and I watched with interest to see how many steps you would take to reach your goal. Glad you were willing to try and show us all that you did.
Except you can buy glass that looks like beach glass but isn't, you can tell because it comes in all sorts of colours and they fade away in the natural process, so someone has worked it out.
@@maverickstclare3756 Except an experienced beach glass hunter can tell what is manufactured and what is nature-made....
I watched a video where a woman showed how to tell the difference. It was really quite interesting to see the differences. It's a shame that people try to pass of fake beach glass as the real thing.
@@MichiganRocks That's the truth...it is a shame. Glad you searched out and watched that video. Half the joy of real beach glass is in the finding and then there are all the different colors and the wondering where it came from. Your video was still very informative as it did show it's not as easy as it looks. And sometimes, it doesn't work at all.
The shiny glass and the very smooth frosted glass are my favorite by far. They look so much cooler to me than beach glass. Don’t look at it as a failure, it’s beautiful!
I'm not really into glass, so this was more of a tumbling challenge to me. I agree with you as far as what I like.
Reminds me of the story of how Lous Pasteur decided that, for the glory of France, he would make the best beer in the world. He tried for a very long time, and in the end he gave up, much to the disappointment of his friends who had been helping him dispose of his "failures".
@@jfan4reva I'd enjoy having a friend like that too.
I started tumbling glass around ten years ago - trying to find an eco-friendly way of cleaning up a remote desert property I bought that was littered with many hundreds of pounds of broken antique glass. I run the glass for 8-12 hours at a time every few weeks or so - whenever I have time and when we have surplus solar energy available. I use a very large WWII-era cement mixer - containing only the glass, water, a few broken bricks and a few shovels full of gravel as media. The glass eventually comes out very nicely frosted and rounded - but not with the "loop"-shaped scratch patterns you see in natural beach glass. My favorite pieces are thick red, orange and blue pebbles. The sun-purpled antique manganese glass is also very nice when tumbled.
Wow, a cement mixer is a serious tumbler! Sound like you had a pretty good method going.
@Mojave Gold Sounds beautiful! Have you posted any pictures of your glass? Do you ever sell any? Every time I find some I like, it's very spendy. (And then there's the postage...) 👋🏼🙋🏽♀️✌🏽
@@bkitteh6295 I assume you're talking about my real beach glass. I give that to one of two sisters who use it to make pebble art. I tried to give the stuff away that I made in this video. Three people said they wanted some, but only one showed up to get it. If you're in the area, it's all yours.
@@MichiganRocks I saw that you were offering it to folks (free!), and I would've been there in a heartbeat, but the plane ticket would've sort of cancelled out the beautiful free glass. 😁 (I live on Seattle...) I think it's incredibly generous of you to offer it to us, particularly considering the effort that went into creating it. Thank you! 👋🏼🙋🏽♀️✌🏽
@MojaveGold This sounds dreamy! I just purchased a rock tumbler to be able to make my own frosted glass. That mixer method you're using sounds Serious! lol I bet you get gorgeous pieces from it though 💜
Great video! I heard an interview with a 10-year old national chess master today who had some very wise words. He said, “I never lose...I only learn...Because when you lose, you have to make a mistake to lose that game. So you learn from that mistake, and so you learn [overall]. So losing is the way of winning for yourself." So, this video was a success because we all learned a lot! I enjoyed every minute. :) Thank you!
I usually show things that I'm fairly good at. I thought it would be good to show that I'm not good at everything. I also think that I learn the most by trying things like this for myself. That ten year old has a great attitude.
Is there no end to the talent contained in this man :)
My talent ended at trying to make beach glass.
I decided to tumble glass as well before I came across this video. I found that just using beach sand and water for 2 days in my tumbler worked perfectly! I love the results you got. Great video as always!
Cool, I'm glad you got it to work. I thought this was a fun experiment to get it as close as I could to the real thing.
I've been watching some of your videos because I have collected a bunch of rocks through the years and have always thought about polishing them up. I recently purchased a beginners tumbler from Harbor Freight just to see if I like the hobby. Your videos have been super informative and I appreciate your dedication. AND wow, that fire juggling was totally awesome! Good job.
I'm glad you're finding them useful. That makes the time I put into making them feel like time well spent.
You're a man of many talents! Very impressive juggling skills!
2:37 When I was in grade six I did a science project where I took some nichrome wire hooked up to electricity so that it glowed red hot, and then rotated a glass bottle against the wire to heat it in a narrow line, followed by plunging the bottle into water, and it cracked perfectly along the line.
4:07 Kudos for the awesome juggling!!! That just made my day!
This brings back memories. Back in the eighties, I was making gemsai (Small trees made out of copper wire with tumbled stones for "leaves"). Near my house was a football practice field with a high fence around it and across the street was a bar. Drunks from the bar or just driving down the street seemed to find it a great sport to try tossing their beer or wine bottles over the fence. Most missed and the bottles fell on the sidewalk or grass strip. Passing by one day I thought that I could break down the brown, green, or blue bottles to make leaves for my trees. It only took about an hour to gather all the glass I needed, I broke it up into pieces from ten to fourteen millimeters (approximately) and tumbled them. I used the green bottles for summer leaves, and brown for fall leaves. My biggest success, however, was when I found a lot covered with pea gravel that had a lot of small white quartz pebbles. I collected a tumbler full of these pebbles and used them as the clumps of snow on a winter tree.
That sounds like a really fun project. I like that you did all the seasons.
Cool video! I am a fan of beach glass, and it was interesting to see how different each batch was. And I loved the juggling !!
It was interesting seeing the different results. I understand tumbling just a little better, even though I don't yet know how to make really good fake beach glass.
I really liked how you kept at it with trial and error. I was very interested in seeing how the shiny glass was going to turn out as well. Very cool video.
Thanks, Serah!
We were just talking about trying to make beach glass. My young son and I love your videos. Thank you so much for taking the time to make these!
You're welcome. Let me know if you make more realistic beach glass than I did.
Awesome video! Lots of info about tumbling glass and bonus fire juggling. I loved seeing all of the different results. 👍👍
Thanks, Rachel.
My wife and 3 daughters are avid beach glass collectors. I’ve often thought of trying to make some but haven’t done it yet. I think what you ended up with would fool most people. I think I would have done it the same way you did with perhaps throwing in a little bit of silicon carbide to speed up the process a little. I’ve seen people cut bottles by wrapping a piece of copper wire around the bottle like you did with the yarn. Then twisting the ends together and heating the ends with a propane torch, then plunging TV he bottle into ice water. I think I would break up the glass using a similar method like you use to split rocks only maybe using a thick blunt rod instead of a chisel. Our Lake Michigan beach glass is usually fairly small pieces. Thanks for exploring another facet of tumbling !!!
Just out of curiosity, could you tell if the glass shards did any damage to your barrels?
I think the main thing you're missing is that cheap glass leaches out its soda over years chemically, not just mechanically, from acid, water, air. Even just glass sitting in a forest being rained on and being damp and muddy, not knocked around at all, gets hazy and frosty and covered in carbonates. I think if you broke it up smaller at first, did the big drum like earlier, and then let it sit around in slightly acidic damp conditions for months/couple years, it might look a lot more realistic. I don't know how to accelerate it.
That's a good point I hadn't considered. Thanks!
Love the variety of your videos. The juggling is an added bonus. Thanks!
I'm trying not to get into a rut.
Couldn't imagine that happening. 🙂
I would love to see you perfect this process! Please try again when you get a chance.
I love making glass jewelry but I rarely get a chance to go to Lake Michigan and collect it. It would be really cool to make my own!
Totally dug the fire juggling!!! Go BLUE!
Really enjoyed the process on this video, thanks for sharing everything, the good the bad and the ugly, it was all good actually.:) I have no ideas to help you out but sure liked watching it all and the juggling was awesome! Great video as always.
I thought it might be more instructional to show how I experiment sometimes than to always show my successes. I hope we all learned something.
You were really persistent! This video was fun and took a lot of work. Thanks, Rob!
I'm glad you enjoyed it. I know I had some fun with this.
I’ve been watching your videos for more than a year now and just realized today that I haven’t subscribed. I find all of your videos very interesting, but this video was amazing. AMAZING! From start to finish - I learned so much! And like another commenter mentioned, the time you put into the experiment and how we get to see it nicely edited with only a different Michigan shirt to tell us it’s a new day. And, the final result of the beach glass looks a lot like sea glass I find in New Jersey at the shore of the Atlantic Ocean. They say you can never really imitate sea glass because the real stuff from the ocean has tiny ‘C’ shaped indentations on it. But, the stuff you came out with looks just like it.
Thank you for sharing, and keep up the excellent work!
It's about time you subscribed! It's funny that you mention the tiny C shapes. I didn't notice those in either the real stuff or the imitation glass. However, I do get those marks occasionally on some rocks I tumble. Botswana agates seem to be the worst for them. Of course, I don't want them in my tumbled rocks. I'm not sure when they get there because they only show up at the end when there's a good polish on the rocks. I use both a rotary and vibratory tumbler, so it could happen in either one.
You are one of my favorite Tubers to watch! I love your sense of humor and STYLE!!!
Are you missing salt, like how the ocean is saltwater???
I live in Michigan where the lakes are unsalted. I can't imagine salt making any difference anyway, but I was trying to copy beach glass that I found on the shores of the Great Lakes.
Amazing fire juggling, Human Torch! And the beach glass DIY experience was pretty cool too!
Thanks, Em.
I really enjoyed the video! Very interesting! Loved the juggling 🔥🔥🔥. I actually wanted to see the shiny glass! But I think the batch that stopped processing got pretty close to real beach glass. Thanks for making this video!
You're welcome, Sharon.
I love this video because you're willing to do trial and error and dicuss yiur findings at the end of eat stage. I was blown away by your juggling. I figured you were going to juggle the glass bottles after the last video I saw, but I was definitely not expecting the real deal!!!! Amazing!!!
I didn't want to clean up broken glass from my driveway. Fire juggling doesn't make a mess.
Only very recently bought a rock tumbler, live very close to a beach so was considering trying beach sand for gently polishing certain materials but thanks to you I can see it won't work well for what I wanted so you've saved me a lot of experimenting, wasted time and pointless wear and tear on the tumbler too.
Thank you very much.
Sand is too soft to be an effective tumbling grit. Silicon carbide is much harder and also breaks down into smaller, sharp pieces that keep on grinding.
@@MichiganRocks Thanks for the reply. I knew it wouldn't be very abrasive but thought it could be good for slow and fine finishing. I will have to study and watch a lot more videos. Yours alone changed my thinking about several things and I'm certain I have a LOT more to learn before wearing it out just experimenting.
It is interesting to think that each video I watch of yours is something you have been working on for a month or more.
I also find it very brave of you reaching into the slurry without gloves after the first batch haha.
Try running batches for a day or less. I'm used to ocean beach glass, which looks like a combination of your 2 batches. I run most of my glass in the Lot-O with 2 Tbsp of old sludge from a 46/70 batch with damp sand and glass. I started out running it for a couple of days, but soon realized that look I wanted had happened in less than 18 hours. In the rotary I use damp sand and glass and check on it once day, never ran it more than 3 days. It's definitely a trial and error project.
The experiment is a success. The differences become interesting and lovely.
Most of the beach glass I've found is on ocean beaches, shaped by shell sand and water.
So much fun, thanks for this video
I had fun playing around. The more experiments I do like this, the more I learn.
Awesome. Excellent juggling! What a treat! Glass tumbling was fun as well.
Thanks!
This was an awesome video! I have collected over 30# of Lake Michigan beach glass since the start of the pandemic. Ultimately have started a little side business making jewelry and artwork with it. The beach glass pieces that are old and very roughly lake tumbled I rub in a very small amount of mineral oil to buff out that "white haze." It lasts almost indefinitely I believe unless it's thoroughly washed off.
I've always wondered how tumbled glass might turn out? I personally prefer to keep my finds in their natural state, and recycle the shiny new and sharp pieces. I really appreciate how you show all stages and comparisons related to tumbling. I have learned so much from your videos this past year!
I'm surprised that you put oil on your beach glass. I thought the appeal of it was the frosted look. I'm also surprised that you found that much in a year. That's a lot of glass and a lot of hunting.
I only apply the oil to a select few that are so white/rough it's difficult to distinguish the color. I use that as a last resort to salvage a piece that ultimately ends up being beautiful with a little help.. the rest is as perfect as the day it washed ashore😀
Wow..you found a ton. I live south of Sheboygan and have not found much this past 2 years due to the water being really high and my beaches went from sand to rocks!
@@faeriesmak I have tried Sheboygan a few times in the past few years and yes, due to the high water levels I really never found anything and I checked out beaches probably in a 20 mi stretch in that area. Hopefully this summer it'll be a whole different story!
@@greenbayrockhuntress Where do you have the best luck? Since the water levels went back up I am finding even LESS of it than I was finding with low water levels!
Quite a while ago you did a video that gave us a tour of your beautiful yard. I was completely impressed, although there was one thing missing. This video reminded me to mention it to you.
The next time you find a blue jar you should hang it in a tree somewhere in your yard. It becomes a h'aint jar and will ensure no h'aints get into your home.
I have no idea what a "h'aint" is. I do spray around the perimeter of the house for ants.
@@MichiganRocks a h'aint is southern speak for a haunt, a ghost or ghoul. They are mesmerized by certain colors of blue thus the color h'aint blue. People paint their porch ceilings h'aint blue for protection against them. We also hang blue jars in our trees so any h'aint that is passing by will be drawn into the bottle (because of the color) and be unable to escape.
Our daughter-in-law lives in the UP and they have something similar. A dream catcher.
Now you know more than you ever wanted to about how to keep a h'aint free home.
@@txwaterbird6115 Much more than I wanted to. I'm not into witchcraft. I am Catholic and I'd rather have my home blessed than rely on a purple bottle hanging in a tree.
@@MichiganRocks Not witchcraft. Just old "southernisms". I'm born & raised Episcopalian and plan on staying so. Having a h'aint jar is no different than having a dream catcher.
@@MichiganRocks I'm with you on at. Sounds like some weird stuff!
Thanks for the videos!
I really enjoyed this experimental video and your juggling skills at the beginning Thank you
You're welcome, Kiah.
I settle in for some good ol glass tumbling from Michigan Rocks and you start JUGGLING FLAMES. absolutely amazing
Since that's the only reason I have charcoal lighter fluid (I have a gas grill), it's hard to avoid juggling when I'm using it.
My husband & I found this fascinating to watch. Thank you. I believe we are gonna give tumbling a try. You have a new subscriber!
Thanks for subscribing, Michelle! I have some rock tumbling videos where I actually know what I'm doing. This was just something that I played around with for fun.
A great informational video! I commented on your long tumbling tutorial about tumbling metal parts. I found that walnut shell filled to half, a small handfull of washers and screws, and two squirts of polishing compound makes all the metal shiny, even the threads!
My next project is tumbled glass (:
That's great, I'm glad you have it figured out. I can't believe that gets into the threads too.
A man of many talents!!
This was very interesting!! Thanks for sharing. Really enjoyed this video.
I'm glad you liked it. I learned a thing or two, so I thought maybe someone else would too.
Fascinating
I seen you on another video with the stones, and now with fire 🔥 So full of fun tricks... Thank you for your services you provide 🦅🦉🦅🌲🌞🌲🦋💚🦋 May you and yours have a great day, eve...
You're welcome!
Your workshop is so neat and clean!
Yes, the part in front of the camera looks great, doesn't it?
@@MichiganRocks 😊
Very nice magic show!
The tumbling was fun as well.
You mean the juggling? Not exactly magic, just lots of practice.
I love these videos!
I love the really smooth ones 😌👌🥰. I want to try this 😃!
Good luck!
This is so wholesome and useful
Great experimental video ! 💯I really enjoyed your journey of discovery, such dedication 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 The smooth frosted glass were perfect for jewellery makers📿 and the shiny pieces would be amazing for sculptures & Mosaics 🙏🏼💗🌟
I'm surprised at how well this video did. I felt like I was just bumbling around and that people prefer to see someone who knows what they're doing. But I've decided that some mystery as to whether it's going to work out or not has some appeal.
Wow, you are just full of talents!! Great juggling. I did some shiny glass in my rotary tumbler, and I skipped the 60/90 step altogether. I started with 220 and then the usual stpes for rocks, and they came out really nice and shiny. I am going to try your beach glass process soon to get some "rough and frosty" stones.
I have not actually tried to make shiny glass in a rotary tumbler. I have only done it in a vibratory tumbler.
Wow! Its really interesting.
I hope you feel better soon thanks for sharing!!
That video was two years ago and I was joking that I had drank all those bottles of booze the night before. I was feeling fine then and I'm feeling great today. Thanks for your concern, though.
@@MichiganRocks oh oepsy hahaha I didn't look at the date greatings for Ireland 😆
I like the glass that shines most. The video is very interesting. Thank you.
That was the easier glass to make. I'm glad you liked it.
Yes yes that's hilarious excellent on the bottles and well good job on the juggling!
Happily enjoying this video as I wait for the torrential rain to subside....then off to see what awaits on the shores of Lake Erie.
A most heartfelt Thank You for educating & enlightening me daily.
Greetings from Fairview PA (West County, Erie PA).
You're welcome. I was just at Lake Erie a couple days ago. I was looking at the lake from the tops of Cedar Point roller coasters and wondering if there were any good rocks there.
@@MichiganRocks Lol...I ask myself the same question...are there any good rocks today!! In my case, not yet knowing enough if a 'treasure' jumped up & bit me.
70-yr old gal who has spent decades picking glass, shards, etc., discovered your videos during lockdown & a whole new world opened up for me.
Now, there isn't a time that I am scavenging & mumbling to myself 'I wish Rob & Nancy were here to tell me what I am seeing or not'.
@@communitypark2313 I don't know what half the stuff I find is. I just enjoy it.
Oh yeah and the fire juggling?! That was awesome!! There has to be a story behind that we would love to hear!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I learned to juggle in college and joined the U of M juggling club. I used to have a fairly popular juggling website with little looping videos before there was a TH-cam. I had a juggling club at the middle school I worked at and taught lots of kids to juggle over the years. I'm not sure there's much more of a story, just another hobby. Here are a couple videos you might enjoy:
th-cam.com/video/78k7ZL05Fao/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/hKkKVEou_VE/w-d-xo.html
He bust out the flaming juggling!!!!! Truely amazing .. love the content
Thanks, James.
I have a house on Lake Superior that has a sandy shoreline and other parts mixed with sandstone near Eagle River and the "ripen" beach glass I find, looks exactly like the uniformed frosted glass you made using silicon carbide. Glad I found this video I was thinking of doing this myself making imitation beach glass using your technique. You just saved me a whole bunch of time, money and headaches. Seeing what doesn't work, I will try the local sand of the shoreline.
I wasn't really considering that all of my glass came from rocky beaches, because those are the only beaches I go to.
Fun footage and awesome juggling.
Thanks, Karen.
That was really interesting. I don't think I had any idea that there were so many different things to learn about what to use to tumble what items, how the varying water amounts will change the outcome. Seems like MANY variables have to be considered. I haven't done any tumbling, but was always fascinated by the shiny, pretty stones you can buy at rock and gem shows. I have a very small collection, and have made some primitive wire-wrapped pendants with them. Thanks for sharing your expertise.
Yes, there are a lot of things you can change. Different techniques work for different rocks.
The fire throwing was very neat, I always wanted to try tumbling glass.
Thanks. This video may have shown you more ways to avoid tumbling it than ways that actually work well.
The glass should be frosted when dry, and clear when wet. I have a rock tumbler with two 6 pound tubs. I place glass marbles and rounded stones in there, they will round out the edges of the glass nice. I usually tumble both small quartz rocks from the beach and glass together,using step one and two of grit (two weeks) and then remove the glass , which is nicely frosted at this point. Then I finish the stones as usual. Works great. I am going to try and experiment with glass, sand and salt water, maybe some soap and ceramic beads for week two and see what happens. Thank you for this video.
This video was me just playing around with something new. It was a fun little experiment.
Love the juggling!
Totally cool video.
What an excellent video!
Thanks!
Amazing segue that.
You are the man!
Dang! Didn't know you have such a talent other than your skills and knowledge in rocks. Bravo!
I'm just full of surprises.
This was fun...you have made my day 👏👍
Glad you enjoined it, Lisa.
Multi talented man for sure.
Nice juggling skills , interesting experiment, thanks for sharing 😊💙
Glad you liked it, Paige.
I’ve seen beach glass and often wondered what it would look like if it was smoother. Now I know and I’m surprised that I like it best left natural. Nice video and entertainment 😁
Shiny glass is pretty easy to make. Imitating what the lake does to glass is not so easy.
Awesome video sweet experiments to see what works now a hidden talent comes out awesome excellent out come thank you
Thanks!
can i just say the last thing i expected to see was a fire-juggling from a rock-collecting youtube channel. no clue why youtube decided to put this in my algorithm, but i'm not complaining! good work!
I can't figure out why TH-cam is pushing this video so much. I don't think it's one of my best, but I'm not complaining. Maybe I need to juggle fire in my videos more often.
I was looking into microwave kilns recently, and bottles are a good source of glass, what a coincidence I found your video! Didn't know you could do that with the bottom, cool trick!
I didn't either until I learned it for this video. I have a friend who uses a kiln to make some glass things. She makes little fish and other little objects. They're cute.
This was thoroughly entertaining, lol. I have always wanted to do this because our town does not recycle glass and I don’t like throwing it out.
You're going to be really busy recycling all that glass yourself!
You surprised me I never knew you can do the juggling. Pretty interesting things about tumbling glass. Some people like the smooth frost glass for their decorations.
I could see that. Frosted is really easy to do. I have a big bin of stuff that I did the first step to make it shiny and then didn't finish.
I collect bonfire seaglass along Chicagos beaches and am soon getting into tumbling them, this video helped out, thanks!
You're welcome!
Very cool 👍
I wondered if glass would work. I’ve done some thick seashells, and they have turned out really pretty.
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I have never tumbled shells, but I have some waiting for me to try.
Love your experiments and random juggling just because you can so you do! 💯💯😃👍
Gotta throw in those useless skills where I can.
😲That nail trick!!! So cool!!!
I thought so too!
You're a scientist! 🤯❤️
Thank you ❤
The juggling was amazing 😊😊
Hope you're felling better!!! The juggling bit was just to funny!! Love your videos!!!
I wasn't really feeling bad. That was supposed to be a joke referring to all the empty alcohol bottles in front of me. Guess that didn't work.
Ahhhh that's probably why i was so shocked when you started juggling....and i actually belly laughed when you threw the leg up!!!!
Cool. This is something I've thought about tinkering with for a while. As others have remarked, it's interesting how the lake glass is a little different than what we see at the beaches here in NC. Atlantic Ocean beach glass here looks an awful lot like your glass after the 220 grit stage. Finely frosted and fairly transparent when under water. When I've found tumbled glass in rivers it looks almost exactly like your lake beach glass. Go figure. Thanks - glad I found your channel!
I think it's probably rocky beaches vs. sandy beaches. My glass all came from rocky beaches because my goal is usually to find rocks. The glass just happens to be there too sometimes.
Interesting video - the smooth frosted glass is what we pick - if it has chips or isn’t smooth then we leave it on the beach. There’s a great beach up in Seaham (NE EnglandJ)where there used to be a glass factory.
I picked all of my samples from rocky beaches since those are the only beaches I go to. Several people told me that on sandy beaches the glass gets much more evenly frosted.
I got a bunch of beach glass I found of NC beaches. Yours looked pretty good to me. Probably not worth the time. That foam was pretty cool. Wouldnt have guessed that. See your pretty good at juggling too. Was fun to watch. Great video
This was something I did more out of curiosity than anything. I don’t usually look for real beach glass and I have no use for fake stuff. it was fun to play around with it though.
thanks for the video, it was a good try. i might have to experiment with tumbling glass . 👍
Let me know if you come up with a method better than I did.
@@MichiganRocks i would be glad to let you know if i can get any different results.
Hi Rob, blimey you went to a lot of effort! the only two pieces of sea glass I have ever found on my beach were really smooth and well rounded and with a nice soft frosted look, so it was interesting to see your natural sea glass being so rough. Perhaps it is because my local beaches are constantly battered by the waves and rollers. Still it was very interesting to see the polished glass, really looked good. Great video as always, Thanks.
Did you find your glass on a sandy or rocky beach? Mine was found on rocky beaches because those are the only beaches I go to. We get some pretty good waves here too, but I'm not sure if they're the type of rollers you get on the ocean.
@@MichiganRocks Hi, very stony beaches, almost no sand. Even on a calm-ish day the waves sound like a cement mixer tumbling stones on a vast scale. I am not setting myself up as some kind of expert on sea glass, only found two pieces in my life! It will be interesting to see what types of sea glass I can find in years too come on other beaches around the coast. cheers.
Your videos are always so entertaining and today you cracked me up with the fire lit batons! 😅
Recently I picked up a quart of glass which rolled onto Bunch Beach, Florida from Hurricane Ian and I’m going to give your method a try. I would be really happy with any of the results you had tumbling glass.
If it's already genuine beach glass, then why would you tumble it?
Fun trying new stuff! Thx!
This could get boring in a hurry if I didn't experiment once in awhile.
Man of many talents.
The Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas uses tumbled glass in some of the beds for ground cover. It’s very attractive and a good way to use recycled glass.
I'll bet it's not that fun to remove leaves from in the fall. I have seen it sold for that purpose before though.
Glass is really fun to Tumble. I was able to get a bunch of Depression Glass which even more fun due to the Ultra Violet reaction which cause it to glow.
Isn't depression glass worth something? I'd hate to break it up.
The heat and cold method works the best but the key is you have to score the glass first (you can get a cheap glass cutter to score the bottle on Amazon for like 12 bucks), it also helps a lot if you put a peice of tape just above and just below the score. Then you can literally just dunk the bottle in boiling water for 30 seconds or so and then straight into ice cold water and you will get a perfect cut every time. The main thing your missing though is scoring the glass. You don't have to cut it deep, I just hold the cutter level on a thin peice of wood with the blade facing horizontal and then stand the bottle up right next to it and turn the bottle against the glass cutter, it will give you a perfectly level score every time. Perhaps you could even use a razor blade, but never tried it.
I know there are better method, but this was a one time thing. Glass isn't really my interest nearly as much as rocks are. I have several rock saws that would have been really easy to use to either score or just cut the bottom off these bottles. I thought it was fun to try less common methods. If I ever decide to do this again, I'll give the scoring method a try.