Rock Polishing BEFORE and AFTER Transformation
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2020
- My second rock polishing video. This time I took photos at each stage and included them side by side. They were polished in a rock tumbler over a couple of months.
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Lovely outcome with your beautifully polished rocks! My parents got me a rock polishing kit way back in the 70's. I so wish I still had those sweet little rose quartz "gems"! Your grandmother must have been interested in rocks, too. I remember one of your landscape stones was a gift from her. ❤
Yes! She got the rock in my landscape from Arizona. Thanks for remembering that. She was very artistic and I took her arrowhead hunting once. Good memories.
Whole family gathered for the new ROCK HUNTER MARK video, and it was a doozy!!
That’s special. Thank you 😊
One of the most beautiful things in nature is polished rocks. Greetings my friend.
Life is like a box of rocks, you never know what you're gonna get! I like this video.Thumbs up.
I love the before and after pictures!
Thanks for watching!
Those are beautiful polished rocks! I loved watching the video and seeing how
each stage changed the rocks. Enjoyed! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful . Thank you for this lesson . It has been very helpful . All the very best to you !
That is so cool how you traced those rocks through every stage like that. That must have taken forever! Really cool rocks too. I wish I could find rocks that cool.
Thanks 🙏
Also beautiful slide show at the end
Thanks for beautiful sharing 😊
This has been so pleasurable. Can not wait to finally get my tumbler
I think you’re going to love it!
Wow! Wonderful!
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
That's beautiful
So cool. I need a tumbler now!!!
Oh wow. I love your first shirt. I need one of those. End results are amazing.
Thanks I love that shirt too.rock on
Awesome. All rocks are attractive and really beautiful.
Awesome Mark. I love the petrified wood wow!!!👍🏹
Yes! I do too. I’m glad I added more pieces of it in there
Excellent sir ! Maybe a video on rock identification . For all of us newbies!
That petrified wood is really stunning!
Love the wood pieces 👍
They are some of my favorites too.
I just love how you do your before and after comparisons at the end of the video. Really top notch. Thanks!
Thank you so much for the wonderful comments. Rock on
Wow those turned out really beautiful
Thank you!
This was our families favorite video yet! The difference between the original rock and how it looked flipping in your hand after being polished was amazing! How cool!
Glad you liked that part 😎
Excellent work my friend.... very enjoyable to watch your videos!
Thank you. I appreciate you saying that
Wow just an nice peaceful show,good stuff.lol getting smaller on a week long trip..the first t shirts the best🐺👍oh and the rock with the bullseyes on one side is special,thanks
Thanks for noticing my T-shirt haha. The bullseyes are my favorites.
This is my favorite one: 12:34
It looks so pretty!!!!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate all the time you put into this video. Excellent !
awesome video. lloved seeing the breakdown of the stages. they turned out really nice
Thanks it was an editing nightmare 🤣🤣🤣
@@RockHunterMark im sure it was. sometimes doing the editing is the longest part lol
Always wanted to get into tumblong rocks but most rigs are cheap and chintzy.
I do find naturally smooth stones on the shores of Lake Erie but so want to do some rock tumbling after seeing this vid.
Absolutely beautiful!
Thanks for sharing your passion and reigniting mine!
I love the shirt 🤗
I didnt know it took that amount of time. They look great.
Thanks, it takes time to erase rock then polish it. Worth the wait, rock on
You got a 👍🏿 after I read your 👕
I Totally agree on the power burned deal 👍!
Only a Rock hound would understand.. AND, if ya wanted it's pep's who'd buy the finished product for way More.. The sped up action is Right on!
Well said, my friend
@@RockHunterMark Man, I'm gonna tell you something I'd not want to tell just anyone. My wife and I had a few misunderstandings about Grown children, and so to keep piece I went out and rented a house(millhouse built ca.19 teen's) around the corner... anyway, Long story short, I was out in the yard mental detecting and found Beautiful Blood Red quartzite rock's, So Me being Me, I'd spend every second not working out digging and poking and being a Rockhound .
Few weeks pass and a cop friend of mine pulls up one day to check up on Me. I was as curious as he at first. Neighbor's, who didn't know Me, though I was on drugs or Crazy as hell. Said how I was outside digging in the ground like an Idiot.
Just before My wife and my self got our head's on straight, I made gifts of extremely Beautiful polished and shaped stones to my Ex- neighbor's LOL ! People are too nosy for their own good, sometimes. One older guy(mid70's) told me, "I said to my wife , that boy can dig around the damned yard all he wants! He works 10or12 hour day's and he's rocked the whole walkway over there! He's not crazy, y'all people are!" I tend to believe him, we still fish together now, when he's able.. 💯 Fact's!
Thanks for sharing. Once you’re hooked, you’re hooked! 👍🏻
@@RockHunterMark Yes Sir!💯
Really enjoyed watching and learning ! Loved watching the progression of each stage. I'm impressed with your video making skills too ! Do you use a video movie making app ?
Also, we've polished rocks in the past with a much smaller tumbler. Do you recommend any particular brand of grit ?
Thank you!
I used Polly Plastics, which I got off of Amazon. I don't really know what is the best to use, but it works for me. I think I'm going to try some media fillers in the tumbler for the next video. Several rocks had some little chips in them and I think it's because I had so much room in the tumbler. My wife helps with the edits. We use an iPad and the video editing app called LumaFusion and recorded with an iPhone for this video. I appreciate you watching the video!
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Love your channel. I live in Columbia and I'm dying to go hunting.
Get in the creeks and check the gravel. That’s where I found my first point was in a creek back in 1980
Thanks for watching and your comments I’m about to go gold hunting in the river. Rock on
@@RockHunterMark It's a bit cold to get down on the water! I guess I could but I'd be freezing my tail off.
Wow!!! Beautiful ...
Can you say .. what is name of these chemical??
Great video. Love how you have many varieties of stone in your tumble. Do you buy rough rocks or find them yourself
Thanks, I find them myself. I’m going to be doing a tumble of nice agates I got for Christmas .
I think this made me snap, im buying one
Really NIce! What part of the country did your rocks come from? General area.
Thanks, Mark. Mid Missouri.
Do you ever try polishing damaged or incomplete points, say missing a tip or a wing? Would they just sustain more damage? Enjoy all your content 😷
I’ve thought about it. I’d probably get some negative comments if I did it, complaining about changing an artifact and such. It would likely smooth all the flaking off. Glad you enjoy watching. Thanks!
@@RockHunterMark I guess to me a damaged point isn’t all that desirable to someone who might have a grocery bag full of them, polishing would enhance their beauty. I hadn’t considered the damage to the flaking. I’m not into the monetary value of them, I just enjoy the hunt & the memories the day brings. Stay safe and healthy 😷
I completely agree with you 😎
Beautifully polished!. What do you do with all the polished rocks? Sell them? The inflation in your hands looks greatly improved. PTL.
Thanks Kathie. I usually give them to friends and family and keep a few at home
Those came out incredible. You didn't use any filler media to fill the tumbler?
Very cool.
I will probably use filler on the next one. It was still pretty full of rock
Thanks for watching
it can be sold?
I got a rock tumbling kit from MJR. It only had 4 types of media. In your video it look like there were 5 steps, what did I miss?
Mine is four media - course, medium, pre-polish, and polish. There are five photos because of the before photo. Have fun with your polisher! Thanks for watching.
Hey Mark, The link at top took me to someone else's channel. I thought it was your first rock polishing video... I may have misunderstood what you said
Thanks for the heads up. I checked and it's there but maybe it shows differently depending on the device used. I'm not sure. Good to know though.
@@RockHunterMark Found the 5-15-20 video ! watching these makes me want to get my polisher back out... I've got a few buckets of rocks I've collected for polishing... better get going ... good winter project !
You could make a video!
@@RockHunterMark You just never know ! I'll need my grandson to help with editing... he's good at it !
I love the results, however I'm wondering if its necessary to put the whole bag of grits in.
Most people use just a few teaspoons.
The amount of grits is probably the reason they got so small..
I don't have any experience, however I've watched lots of videos.
Maybe someone else can offer information
I probably don’t need put to the whole bag in but it would be close due to the size of my tumbler and weight of the rock . The grit I have is the whole bag for 15lbs. 😎 I’m not really an expert though, I just do and see what happens 🤣
@@RockHunterMark are you tumbling 15 pounds at a time.. seems that after the first one its greatly reduced in size.
I did notice it was a fairly large tumble barrel.
Some people do stages. And combination of batches to fill the barrel.
They tumble on 80 rinse, set aside in water, put in a new batch at 80. Then combine them to fill barrel for the remaining grits.
Just some suggestions from watching others.. I'm not trying to be bossy by any means.
Probably less than 15lbs . I have another round in the tumbler now of all petrified wood that’s more than half done. Maybe after this round I’ll try a bit less grit and see how it goes 😎
Is any of the grit or polish toxic for the environment ?
I don’t think so, it’s just silicon carbide
Did you say these were from a river? What part of the U.S.?
Hi Debbie - Yes, they are river rocks. I’m from the state of Missouri. 😎😁
Awesome rocks but you can use way less grit.
Thank you. I’m going to try that in the future. The ones I have going now are all petrified wood and I used the whole bag, so the round after that 😁
@@RockHunterMark some grits tell you how much to use per pound of rock. I usually add a little more if the rocks are really rough.
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What size is your barrel?
Hi Heather. It is 7 in diameter and 8 in deep. It holds 1 gallon of liquid.
Inflammation.
Such a waste of water when you rinsed off after polishing! I guess you aren't in a. Drought😪