Camden and Matt have recently started a new hobby….Rock Tumbling. We started last week with some very rough rocks and let them tumble for one week. Here we are about to open the container and see what the rocks look like after stage on (there are four stages total)
Here is what the water and course grit turned into after tumbling 24 hours a day for seven full days. It all turned into a very gray liquidy sludge. Camden didn’t think it looked very good.
I didn’t get a picture of the rocks before we started the first stage so this picture won’t really mean anything, but this is what some of the rocks looked like after the end of the first stage.
This is what the next round of rocks looks like before starting stage one. After this we will do stage two which smoothes the rocks a bit more before we do two stages of polishing.
As you can see above, there are lots of sharp rough edges that will be rounded off in stage one. Next week we’ll post pictures of this batch after stage one and start stage two. Below is a picture of how it all fits together inside the tumbler with water, rocks, and the very course grit.
