It's nice to know that I'm not crazy just because I collect rocks every single day. They are like snowflakes. No two are alike. By the way, I love your rock collection!
Same here. I got into rockhounding this past winter after I quit drinking. And it’s become an obsession. I can’t stop myself. I drive around for work and live in an area that the glaciers pushed some amazing rocks to. I’ve realized these Rocks are absolutely everywhere and especially in peoples landscape stones. So I’m always pretending to tie my shoe and snatching a rock or two that caught my eye. Also found some mind blowing beaches on Lake Erie that solely consist of beautiful baseball sized rocks. My yard has quickly been filling up.
Congratulations on getting sober 😊🎉❤ I myself have 10 years in and couldn't be more happy without alcohol 😂but my rocks ...🤔😂 😎 heck no lol , I'm coming out of decades of abuse and self neglect, but I found rocks again and thank God for blessing us with such beauty and peace ,I could rock hunt for hours none stop 😅, ,and others are crazy for not seeing God's gifts with such an outlet and fun and just love ❤❤ Best wishes to you Lost Lefty Limb and keep Rocking on my fellow Rock stars 🌟 🤩 ❤️ 🪨🎸
Beautiful Jasper! For larger pieces like this I've found that if I heat the oil to just warm to the touch, it thins the oil a bit and seems to rub in deeper. I've had warm oil make small fractures disappear completely. I use the oven method for the smaller stones. The only drawback I've had was once when I didn't get the oil wiped off completely and the stone became a dust magnet, 1st time I ever saw a fuzzy agate. 😆 Thanks for sharing another great video... and as always... Good Luck, Have Fun, and Keep on Houndin'... Steve.
I do this exact thing but kinda in a reverse order lol. So I normally soak the stone in the mineral oil then set it out in the sun for a full day, if it looks like the stone absorbed all the mineral oil I add more and let it sit. I repeat the process daily until it stops absorbing it then I whip all the oil off. If it still has a oily surface I’ll wash with water then dry and it normally always holds that wet look. Great video bro, I thought about doing a video on it but I’m glad you made this one. Hope your doing well Brotha 🤘🔥
Hello, I'm Kimpd living in Korea. I saw you oil the stones today. It's a nice stone. There are lines in the stone. I love the color, too. Enjoy the video. Good luck
Ha! My husband uses my you tube and I see he watched this :-) I came home one day recently to find the all the landscape line of rocks I’d put on landscape fabric next to the driveway ALL LOOKED FANTASTIC!. Turns out he had a sprayer and an xtra? Gallon of food grade mineral oil! Oh gosh! I am so happy he watched your tip! Thanks!! I plan on surrounding our home with every size. My job this season is to go down to the beach and hand pick, then of course the weeding, dirt lay and landscape laying, but oh my what a pretty framing it’ll make!!!
3 years later, did the yard rock hold up in elements? AgateDad you of course designated this as a display piece. I did this with large sea shells and 2 years later el sol reminded me that no one can mess with Mother Nature. Curious to know if you got better mileage.
I've heard that if you bake your rocks in the oven, that there is a chance they could explode? Anyway, the rocks that I want to do are smaller ones about an inch inch and a half and maybe even a little smaller. I also have some that are pretty large! I cannot wait to try this, I think I'll make a video for my subscribers! I pick the beautiful ones out of all the rocks in my yard and put them aside. I separate them by color ,size , and shininess. My friends think I have a sickness! 🤣 I tell them, maybe I do, but it's very inexpensive and it keeps me off the streets! I am a retired 68-year-old female 🤣💜 Thank you for this wonderful video!
Thank you! Just went along the North Shore this past weekend and collected some very beautiful rocks, and a couple agates. Of course not so pretty when dry. But I don't want to tumble because you lose so much material. I thought maybe spraying with UV clear cloat or resin, but this seems like it would last longer and really bring out the color.
Good Morning Taylor! Thank you for the great tip. As I don't own a tumbler yet, this will be a great way for my daughter to show off the natural luster of her rocks.
This is a nice idea. I came across this sometime ago and find that it works well. If you pick up a wet rock and get it home and it looks dry and blah mineral oil soaking is a cheap and perfect fix.
Beautiful piece ! I oil my agates too, ive got jasper and agates that wer oiled over 6 months ago that still look great ! The jasper and agates really hold on to that oil !
In my experience with oiling rocks I have found that unless you keep the oiled rock in a totally dust free environment it will collect dust very easy. Dust and oil make a gunk that is trouble to remove.
@@AgateDad yes, and please do an update in the future and let us know how they look. I'm curious to see if you get better results over time than i did .
I was concerned about that same problem! Dust and in our place pet hair dander etc! Yuck. Plus I know from experience that when dried out it eventually gets tacky and IF I recall correctly, it yellows although that could be linseed oil I may be confusing the yellowing part.!😏
First of, what a cool piece of jasper! This turned out awesome. Thanks for the split down the middle showing the before and after. Definitely going to have to try this. Need to find a rock first!
I'm a jewelry designer I'm starting to work with small rock that will be made into jewelry I'm going to trying this for the finishing instead of sealing with something other.
I've never tried it on rocks, however, maybe Mop and Glo floor polish would work better. I use it on my skulls that I make into European mounts. It shines them up and leaves a hard finish.
As long as it is kept indoors, it would stay on and shiny. I suspect it would eventually wear down outdoors. Its made for floors so has a long-lasting ability. It could be stripped off if you want to, but have never tried that. I thought of it because I asked about the mineral oil collecting dust. This will repel rust and water.
@@AgateDad yes asong as you don't handle it. I use acrylic minwax gloss that leaves a hard protective finish and won't yellow like the enamel minwax does
I found this out by accident because I have a rounded off, rectangular flat piece of Chert that I used to massage myself with and the massage oil went into the stone and the green and brown color came out really nicely. I don’t know if I would want to do it to all of my stones or not. I think certain stones it would look better on, especially how rough that Jasper is on the outside. I have experience with making soapstone carvings and using wax to finish the pieces. The same thing happens, and the natural colors and designs of the stone come out quite brilliantly and it is almost always better to do the wax on the soapstone sculpture unless you were trying to exemplify texture, and even then it’s a nice touch, but it just takes a little more time to get the wax off. Pretty awesome video and I bet you inspired tons of people, as you always do. Stay rockin!!
Hahahaha "nuts better". Rookie is a trip. This was an awesome video, and super cool timing for me, as I got some big ole jasp- agates from the river that are probably too big for my saw but I still wanna display despite their worn, weathered sides. I just so happened to try mineral oil on one yesterday and was stoked at how it brought out the colors and features and gave it that "wet" look... Only now I realize I was supposed to bake it in the sun first, and it will probably come out even better. I'm on the Oregon coast and despite it being mid June it's rainy and 55 degrees, so that will have to wait a day or so unfortunately but I am glad to know the trick. Sorry if I missed it in the video but is that bc it makes the oil absorb better Agate Dad? I cant believe there are ppl who put rocks in their oven to get them to look nice.... wait. Yeah, no, I actually can TOTALLY believe that. Us rockhounds are a "nuts" weird and determined bunch. (So glad I learned some Australian slang while here thanx to Jesse ☺. Love seeing how much all my fav rockhounders support each other.) Thanks A.Dad for the great video (especially the silly personal touches like tape struggles) and excellent tips!
I like that frying/sizzle sound effect. I’m not sure about oiling stones - or varnishing them like some folks do. I am certain I’ll be building some shelve like yours sooner or later for display. The oil definitely shows up the stone face different than the dry.
I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING FROM FURNITURE POLISH TO ENGINE OIL AND WHAT I'VE FOUND THAT WORKS THE BEST FOR ME IS A CAN OF HAIR SPRAY, EASY TO USE AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT WASH IT OFF.
So far... I think the mineral oil is the best of what i seen. Some people were adding harsh chemicals... I was thinking maybe buffing my stones like when i am done with paint work on a car... Well, for those smooth stones i found on the 4th at the beach at lake Michigan
I soaked agatised coral-projectile points from Florida that have a deep patina its amazing they come out translucent and beautiful it may take a week or two
I guess it's just for unpolished pieces though right. Similar to the old rockhound trick of putting yours stones etc under water enough to let the colors show through.
I have a question about polishing agates, if you have a clean cut on the agate and it is completely flat do you still have to use the 600 grit diamond bit on the dremel? Can you just use 600 grit sandpaper and do the same process as you do from there?
True... However if not applied properly or if product has been compromised ..bought a can at a garage sale it left an unnatural feel ( bumpy on smooth surfaces) ruined my treasures.
This is so helpful, I have a ton of large yellow/red/orbicular jaspers I want to display. Does it feel greasy to the touch for long, and can you put on surfaces without the oil being transferred to them once it sets in? Thank you!
Amazing. 🥰🌍🔥, Sad tho I need Mineral oil. Crazy to say. I just got done using this lotion that's has Mineral oil in it. It works, it's just it doesn't leave the shine. Got it all on most of my Jaspers for now. Let me tell you some of the Jasper Agate looking ones I have are beautiful. 😍 Gotta be my favorite right now. So smooth, it's like it's soft.
I’ve never done oven temp but I think anything warmer than 100F would be good, I would google that topic before doing it though to find out what others do.
Do you think it could be a good idea if I’d put mineral oil on it and bench grind it and ad oil again? To make it colourful? I have jade and agate granite
What if you just slammed that thing into a giant tumbler or power wash it to get every speck of dirt off i think it would improve the looks of this absolutely beautiful jasper
Does it stay greasy/oily? I have small space for displaying, so I use clear cupcake display type risers to make the most of the space for my stones. I have some Chert with an agate rind I'd love to bring a shine too, but didn't know if after I wipe it clean, it will leave oil smears on the risers.
That's a good as old as i am that's good to know lol i don't even know much about my cellphone lol every time something happens on it i asked either my hubby or my daughter to fix for me i'm not tech savvy so sad one of this day i want to buy a few of your rocks don't need to polished i just want it naturally lol 'cause it looks like you enjoy them so much lol 😊😊😊👍👍👍
Would mineral oil last long on a giant outdoor rock? if so, how long? I’m in the Midwest and wouldn’t mind doing it annually in the spring, but not much more often than that.
Not permanent, I’ve seen with others that it does fade with time and the process is repeated. I do hope to do an actual baking of stone and oil in the future and will compare the two different processes.
Mine last 1-2 years before needing to be re-done. I however soak mine in the oil in the sun for a day, then wipe as much of the excess off. Not sure how I’d do that with a giant chunk of jasper though.
How do clear years and years of caked on dried in muddy clay looking brown stuff off of my very fragile stone completely covered in Grossular Garnets and looks like it might be on a light green matrix but I can’t do anything to get that muddy brown color off of it. I have to clean it with caution because the Grossular Garnets will pop off or break up
Rub them as dry as possible and set in the sun or set them on a paper towel on a cookie sheet in the oven for 10 minutes. Then while they're still warm rub them down again. The nice thing is that with mineral oil you can return the agate to raw with an overnight hot water and blue Dawn bath.
The method, better used with literally baking your stones, is that it helps the mineral oil thin and get more imbedded into the stone, helping the oil last longer.
i can’t find a video anywhere about what i’m looking for. this is kind of close.. what if I want to keep a bunch of rocks in a jar ? can i use mineral oil or some kind of alcohol??
Great video, great channel! I’m wondering if I soak smaller stones in mineral oil, can I reuse the mineral oil on more rocks? It gets a little cloudy with the heat and just the rocks in general, but it’s certainly still oily ! Thank you!
What a fantastic idea, going to try this today! Question: to the immediate left of the glass jar on your shelf you have a gray rock with a coating of white crystals. I have several specimens of that but haven't identified what the crystal layer is. Do you know??
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It's nice to know that I'm not crazy just because I collect rocks every single day. They are like snowflakes. No two are alike. By the way, I love your rock collection!
I'm glad I'm not crazy either 😊
Same here. I got into rockhounding this past winter after I quit drinking. And it’s become an obsession. I can’t stop myself. I drive around for work and live in an area that the glaciers pushed some amazing rocks to. I’ve realized these Rocks are absolutely everywhere and especially in peoples landscape stones. So I’m always pretending to tie my shoe and snatching a rock or two that caught my eye. Also found some mind blowing beaches on Lake Erie that solely consist of beautiful baseball sized rocks. My yard has quickly been filling up.
Congratulations on getting sober 😊🎉❤ I myself have 10 years in and couldn't be more happy without alcohol 😂but my rocks ...🤔😂 😎 heck no lol , I'm coming out of decades of abuse and self neglect, but I found rocks again and thank God for blessing us with such beauty and peace ,I could rock hunt for hours none stop 😅, ,and others are crazy for not seeing God's gifts with such an outlet and fun and just love ❤❤ Best wishes to you Lost Lefty Limb and keep Rocking on my fellow Rock stars 🌟 🤩 ❤️ 🪨🎸
😂 doing the same
Beautiful Jasper! For larger pieces like this I've found that if I heat the oil to just warm to the touch, it thins the oil a bit and seems to rub in deeper. I've had warm oil make small fractures disappear completely. I use the oven method for the smaller stones.
The only drawback I've had was once when I didn't get the oil wiped off completely and the stone became a dust magnet, 1st time I ever saw a fuzzy agate. 😆
Thanks for sharing another great video...
and as always...
Good Luck, Have Fun, and Keep on Houndin'...
Steve.
Great tips!
I do this exact thing but kinda in a reverse order lol. So I normally soak the stone in the mineral oil then set it out in the sun for a full day, if it looks like the stone absorbed all the mineral oil I add more and let it sit. I repeat the process daily until it stops absorbing it then I whip all the oil off. If it still has a oily surface I’ll wash with water then dry and it normally always holds that wet look. Great video bro, I thought about doing a video on it but I’m glad you made this one. Hope your doing well Brotha 🤘🔥
Hello, I'm Kimpd living in Korea.
I saw you oil the stones today.
It's a nice stone.
There are lines in the stone.
I love the color, too.
Enjoy the video.
Good luck
I'm dying over here! :) I loved the beginning of this video! I have the same sense of humor. Yours was much appreciated. Thanks!
Ha! My husband uses my you tube and I see he watched this :-) I came home one day recently to find the all the landscape line of rocks I’d put on landscape fabric next to the driveway ALL LOOKED FANTASTIC!. Turns out he had a sprayer and an xtra? Gallon of food grade mineral oil! Oh gosh! I am so happy he watched your tip! Thanks!! I plan on surrounding our home with every size. My job this season is to go down to the beach and hand pick, then of course the weeding, dirt lay and landscape laying, but oh my what a pretty framing it’ll make!!!
haha love it!
3 years later, did the yard rock hold up in elements? AgateDad you of course designated this as a display piece. I did this with large sea shells and 2 years later el sol reminded me that no one can mess with Mother Nature. Curious to know if you got better mileage.
I've heard that if you bake your rocks in the oven, that there is a chance they could explode? Anyway, the rocks that I want to do are smaller ones about an inch inch and a half and maybe even a little smaller. I also have some that are pretty large! I cannot wait to try this, I think I'll make a video for my subscribers! I pick the beautiful ones out of all the rocks in my yard and put them aside. I separate them by color ,size , and shininess. My friends think I have a sickness! 🤣 I tell them, maybe I do, but it's very inexpensive and it keeps me off the streets! I am a retired 68-year-old female 🤣💜 Thank you for this wonderful video!
Thank you! Just went along the North Shore this past weekend and collected some very beautiful rocks, and a couple agates. Of course not so pretty when dry. But I don't want to tumble because you lose so much material. I thought maybe spraying with UV clear cloat or resin, but this seems like it would last longer and really bring out the color.
Good Morning Taylor! Thank you for the great tip. As I don't own a tumbler yet, this will be a great way for my daughter to show off the natural luster of her rocks.
Absolutely ❤️
Boy that really brought that thing to life. Will have to try your trick🤙🏽👍🏼
Amazing bro thank you! It's like they're continuously wet!
Hi again TAYLOR
Nice job! A really large one for sure. Looks good on your shelf. Thx as always!
Thanks for all the valuable info you post on your You Tube page. I enjoy all the tips and tricks.
So beautiful. It brings out the colors. I did a Petoskey stone in oil & sanded it.
Can't think of a better way to wake up than to a video of you and Rookie Rockhound. 💓🎯💯💪😁
Thanks Mike! His video was top notch as usual!!!
This is a nice idea. I came across this sometime ago and find that it works well. If you pick up a wet rock and get it home and it looks dry and blah mineral oil soaking is a cheap and perfect fix.
Bingo Bud!
I might try this on our bigger pieces of Kona Dolomite. Thanks for the tips and videos!
I’m glad you posted this! I was wondering how to get my rocks more beautiful!
Make your rocks smile liké you...
Beautiful piece ! I oil my agates too, ive got jasper and agates that wer oiled over 6 months ago that still look great ! The jasper and agates really hold on to that oil !
That’s great info!! Thanks!
I'm an oil painter and you get the same result after you varnish a painting. Nice job!
In my experience with oiling rocks I have found that unless you keep the oiled rock in a totally dust free environment it will collect dust very easy. Dust and oil make a gunk that is trouble to remove.
Interesting! We will see how it goes
@@AgateDad yes, and please do an update in the future and let us know how they look. I'm curious to see if you get better results over time than i did .
I was concerned about that same problem! Dust and in our place pet hair dander etc! Yuck. Plus I know from experience that when dried out it eventually gets tacky and IF I recall correctly, it yellows although that could be linseed oil I may be confusing the yellowing part.!😏
Collectors don't want oil on their rocks a lot of the time.
First of, what a cool piece of jasper! This turned out awesome. Thanks for the split down the middle showing the before and after. Definitely going to have to try this. Need to find a rock first!
That is the coolest jasper I’ve seen. Great video, I will be trying this soon!
I got a beautiful agate im going to do this with great timing my man and great job thanks so much🍻
I'm a jewelry designer I'm starting to work with small rock that will be made into jewelry I'm going to trying this for the finishing instead of sealing with something other.
I've never tried it on rocks, however, maybe Mop and Glo floor polish would work better. I use it on my skulls that I make into European mounts. It shines them up and leaves a hard finish.
Is it permanent?
As long as it is kept indoors, it would stay on and shiny. I suspect it would eventually wear down outdoors. Its made for floors so has a long-lasting ability. It could be stripped off if you want to, but have never tried that. I thought of it because I asked about the mineral oil collecting dust. This will repel rust and water.
@@AgateDad yes asong as you don't handle it. I use acrylic minwax gloss that leaves a hard protective finish and won't yellow like the enamel minwax does
You picked a great piece to oil ! That looks incredible !
I'll definitely give this technique a try Thanks for the tip
Wow, it really does make a difference. I’ve heard that people do that...but not tried it myself.....YET!
Do it
I also do this to my rocks , it gives the rocks the wet look , thank you for sharing 😊💙
Yeah you really did a great job with that. I can’t believe how nice it came out. Excellent work. Really really really nice stone.
Cant explain it, its super satisfying lol!
I found this out by accident because I have a rounded off, rectangular flat piece of Chert that I used to massage myself with and the massage oil went into the stone and the green and brown color came out really nicely. I don’t know if I would want to do it to all of my stones or not. I think certain stones it would look better on, especially how rough that Jasper is on the outside.
I have experience with making soapstone carvings and using wax to finish the pieces. The same thing happens, and the natural colors and designs of the stone come out quite brilliantly and it is almost always better to do the wax on the soapstone sculpture unless you were trying to exemplify texture, and even then it’s a nice touch, but it just takes a little more time to get the wax off.
Pretty awesome video and I bet you inspired tons of people, as you always do. Stay rockin!!
Very nice! Hope you're doing okay in this heat. Take care and thank you.
Beautiful Jasper I am a Rockhound for my self and give to my my folks in Missoula Montana usa
Nice! Montana is great!
Dude that looks nuts better! I neeeeeeeeed to try this! Might need your help yo! Get our rock kitchen cookin on I reckon! Rad vid man!
Let’s get it 🤟🤟
Hahahaha "nuts better".
Rookie is a trip.
This was an awesome video, and super cool timing for me, as I got some big ole jasp- agates from the river that are probably too big for my saw but I still wanna display despite their worn, weathered sides. I just so happened to try mineral oil on one yesterday and was stoked at how it brought out the colors and features and gave it that "wet" look... Only now I realize I was supposed to bake it in the sun first, and it will probably come out even better. I'm on the Oregon coast and despite it being mid June it's rainy and 55 degrees, so that will have to wait a day or so unfortunately but I am glad to know the trick. Sorry if I missed it in the video but is that bc it makes the oil absorb better Agate Dad?
I cant believe there are ppl who put rocks in their oven to get them to look nice.... wait. Yeah, no, I actually can TOTALLY believe that. Us rockhounds are a "nuts" weird and determined bunch.
(So glad I learned some Australian slang while here thanx to Jesse ☺. Love seeing how much all my fav rockhounders support each other.)
Thanks A.Dad for the great video (especially the silly personal touches like tape struggles) and excellent tips!
That’s a really cool rock. It would like nice on a bookshelf like a sculpture almost.
It's a -20000 years sculpture...
Oiling the rock is taking away from its natural compound. Thumbs down 👎 sorry.
Great tip. If stone is smooth texture I use zinc sun cream which gives a gorgeous shine.
Interesting!
What a great way to repurpose zinc.. since the sun IS actually good for you and your body needs the sun.
I like that frying/sizzle sound effect. I’m not sure about oiling stones - or varnishing them like some folks do. I am certain I’ll be building some shelve like yours sooner or later for display. The oil definitely shows up the stone face different than the dry.
Héllo Friend from Brasil tánks for vídeo,beautiful jaspr.
think i will give this a try on a few different stones I've found.
Nice! I found a Jasper vein along quartz in Colorado
Nice!
Thank you for your interest in rock collecting and presentation
Prettier than the dry. Thanks!
I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING FROM FURNITURE POLISH TO ENGINE OIL AND WHAT I'VE FOUND THAT WORKS THE BEST FOR ME IS A CAN OF HAIR SPRAY, EASY TO USE AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT WASH IT OFF.
Great tip!
@@AgateDad THANKS !
Good tutorial I will definitely do on some of my rocks Also beautiful piece of Red jasper
Thanks!!
So far... I think the mineral oil is the best of what i seen. Some people were adding harsh chemicals...
I was thinking maybe buffing my stones like when i am done with paint work on a car... Well, for those smooth stones i found on the 4th at the beach at lake Michigan
That was awesome. Great idea for big rocks you can't tumble.
I soaked agatised coral-projectile points from Florida that have a deep patina its amazing they come out translucent and beautiful it may take a week or two
Wow!
Works great on sea glass as well. If you don't like the frosted look just put a drop on and Buff it off with a cloth
Gracias!!😊 beautiful rock collection 😍
Thanks for the tip rockfather...might try it on some andamooka matrix......maybe 💓🤗😉
Try it 👍
I love the big stone with all the holes. I think they call them hag stones. That's a great tip for the stones the oil thanks so much.😁
Hag stones have holes all the way through, pockets are Omar’s, but that is neither, it’s a mystery to me what it is.
@@AgateDad it's very cool I have a few one myself none that big there very interesting.
That looks so cool! I'm going to try it.
I guess it's just for unpolished pieces though right. Similar to the old rockhound trick of putting yours stones etc under water enough to let the colors show through.
If you let it bake in the sun after oiling, does it help the shine last longer?
I have a question about polishing agates, if you have a clean cut on the agate and it is completely flat do you still have to use the 600 grit diamond bit on the dremel? Can you just use 600 grit sandpaper and do the same process as you do from there?
Gorgeous rock!
Nice job on the Jasper, but I couldn’t stop looking at the green and blue stones on the shelf behind you.
Haha it is distracting
Don't know if anyone mentioned this but, a spray can of clear lacquer will do the same and won't need to be re applied
True... However if not applied properly or if product has been compromised ..bought a can at a garage sale it left an unnatural feel ( bumpy on smooth surfaces) ruined my treasures.
turned out nice.
This is so helpful, I have a ton of large yellow/red/orbicular jaspers I want to display. Does it feel greasy to the touch for long, and can you put on surfaces without the oil being transferred to them once it sets in? Thank you!
I have some rocks that will definitely be getting some oil treatment. Thanks for sharing this Taylor! Very helpful✨🤗✨
Amazing. 🥰🌍🔥, Sad tho I need Mineral oil. Crazy to say. I just got done using this lotion that's has Mineral oil in it. It works, it's just it doesn't leave the shine. Got it all on most of my Jaspers for now. Let me tell you some of the Jasper Agate looking ones I have are beautiful. 😍 Gotta be my favorite right now. So smooth, it's like it's soft.
Great Video! Thanks for the tip!! I will have to try this on some of my rocks!! Love your channel !!😊
Awesome! Thank you!
Ok, question. Since the weather has turned cold, what temperature do I set the oven to and how long do I put the rocks in the oven for?
I’ve never done oven temp but I think anything warmer than 100F would be good, I would google that topic before doing it though to find out what others do.
That's what a lot of folks do with shells down here too. What does the heat do? Have you tried oiling without heating? Recognized some of Rob's stuff
The struggle is real my man, the tape issue... Lol😂 i learned with the clear packing tape...
Do you think it could be a good idea if I’d put mineral oil on it and bench grind it and ad oil again? To make it colourful? I have jade and agate granite
Great info. I'm going to try this.
Beautiful!
Thanks!
What if you just slammed that thing into a giant tumbler or power wash it to get every speck of dirt off i think it would improve the looks of this absolutely beautiful jasper
After wiping clean, does the oil ever leach out? What if the oiled rock is used as a paper weight? Would the paper eventually get oily?
Very good my friend
Will this wear off over time? I’m considering what to put on door knobs. Better to oil or enamel spray?
Does it stay greasy/oily? I have small space for displaying, so I use clear cupcake display type risers to make the most of the space for my stones. I have some Chert with an agate rind I'd love to bring a shine too, but didn't know if after I wipe it clean, it will leave oil smears on the risers.
wonderful tips
Great tip! Thank you
That's a good as old as i am that's good to know lol i don't even know much about my cellphone lol every time something happens on it i asked either my hubby or my daughter to fix for me i'm not tech savvy so sad one of this day i want to buy a few of your rocks don't need to polished i just want it naturally lol 'cause it looks like you enjoy them so much lol 😊😊😊👍👍👍
I sure learned something new. I didn't know people baked rocks and used mineral oil to make them shine!
Thank you for the video :)
It’s so pretty!
I agree!
You never said how long it would stay looking like that? Do you have to repeat it every so often? Certainly the oil is going to dry up?
Would mineral oil last long on a giant outdoor rock? if so, how long? I’m in the Midwest and wouldn’t mind doing it annually in the spring, but not much more often than that.
That turned out really nice! Is that affect going to be permanent?
Not permanent, I’ve seen with others that it does fade with time and the process is repeated. I do hope to do an actual baking of stone and oil in the future and will compare the two different processes.
Mine last 1-2 years before needing to be re-done. I however soak mine in the oil in the sun for a day, then wipe as much of the excess off. Not sure how I’d do that with a giant chunk of jasper though.
Very nice! Will the oil wear off with time? Also does it attract dust that sticks to the oil?
ask a vet if dust sticks to boots after a good shine lol
How do clear years and years of caked on dried in muddy clay looking brown stuff off of my very fragile stone completely covered in Grossular Garnets and looks like it might be on a light green matrix but I can’t do anything to get that muddy brown color off of it. I have to clean it with caution because the Grossular Garnets will pop off or break up
No clue, time consuming and tedious cleaning probably
I have not oiled my stones yet for the fear they will get sticky over time and attract pet hair and dust. Does that happen?
The other one I’ve oiled has just faded, I rub in the oil to the point it’s not very oily
They’re not sticky, just make sure you wipe off the excess and let sit in the sun to dry as well.
Rub them as dry as possible and set in the sun or set them on a paper towel on a cookie sheet in the oven for 10 minutes. Then while they're still warm rub them down again. The nice thing is that with mineral oil you can return the agate to raw with an overnight hot water and blue Dawn bath.
Why do you warm the rock before applying the oil? My guess would be getting the rock to expand slightly so the oil can work its way into the pores
The method, better used with literally baking your stones, is that it helps the mineral oil thin and get more imbedded into the stone, helping the oil last longer.
i can’t find a video anywhere about what i’m looking for. this is kind of close..
what if I want to keep a bunch of rocks in a jar ? can i use mineral oil or some kind of alcohol??
Looks good. Will it dull back down after drying?
Eventually yea
Hi how do you like your new Hi- Tech rock cutter ?
love it
I luv jasper looking good
Would baby oil work? I have some at home already. Guess i can try it on one to see 🤷🏻♀️
What kind of oil is that ? I keep finding mineral laxative oil. I thought it would be in the description
That’s what I was using. Basic mineral oil
Great video, great channel! I’m wondering if I soak smaller stones in mineral oil, can I reuse the mineral oil on more rocks? It gets a little cloudy with the heat and just the rocks in general, but it’s certainly still oily ! Thank you!
Not sure!
What a fantastic idea, going to try this today!
Question: to the immediate left of the glass jar on your shelf you have a gray rock with a coating of white crystals. I have several specimens of that but haven't identified what the crystal layer is. Do you know??
Looks great! How does this hold up outside?
I wouldn’t do it and then put the rock outside
Have you tried the baking method yet?
Not yet! Soon though
Makes Flint artifacts pop with color too.
Awesome!