Last week we looked at the carnelians that have been in the tumbler for a full year
and this week we're going to look at the Bahia agates that were in the same tumblers
these ones were in the silicon carbide grit, and these were done in aluminum oxide grit
and just for comparison, these were done in my National Geographic tumbler
we're not going to spend a lot of time on these, because I've already done a video
showing all these in that National Geographic tumbler video
Let's look at the ones that were tumbled with silicon carbide first
Of course, these didn't get shiny, but they're still pretty cool looking rocks
and just before you ask, I am not going to re-tumble these, I just kind of want
to keep them the way they are. After spending all that time, I'd like to be
able to go back and look at them and say "Oh, that's what rocks look like after
a year of tumbling."
This is the one I like the best out of this whole batch, of all the kinds of rocks
look at the eyes on that
just everywhere, well, not everywhere. They're on the top half, the bottom half's
all banded
which is also cool
that's just a great rock. That one I am tempted to shine up, but I'm not
going to, I'm going to leave it like that
nice bands on some of these
I like this one a lot, just like the colors in it
I have some before pictures of these, so I'll try to match up the ones that I can
and show you before and after pictures at the end of this video
I have people that watch the little slideshows at the end tell me that that's
the best part of these videos. Look at the little eyes right there.
So, if you always skip them, try watching this one.
Alright, here's the ones that were done in aluminum oxide, much shinier, but
remember these started out, if you saw the - well, you'll see the before pictures if you
watch the slideshow, but if you watch the other video, you'll see that these started
out pretty rounded already, so these are not jagged rocks
they're like nodules, so
they were already kind of smooth and rounded, but you can see these got - like
here, they didn't get these, all these pits ground out of them
but they did get shiny
that one's got the interesting stuff on the sides
I notice sometimes, and I've oftened wondered if these occur because of rotary
tumbling or vibratory tumbling, but they get these kind of "c" shaped dings in them
so these were all done in rotary, so
they seem to get them in the rotary tumbler they might also get them in the vibratory
tumbler, I'm not really sure.
lot of quartz in that one
this one was broken before it went in
alright, and then just to compare the shine, let's take one of these, that's a
nice looking one
and one of these, let's get maybe the same color
and I don't think there's a whole lot of difference in the shine
they're pretty close
so there you go
before and after pictures coming right up!