You bet!Originally Posted by Ascended
Nice work. Keep them coming
Photo #73
There is a story with this photo:
The dark stones I received in a box of mixed material from the SouthWest U.S.A., it was just one large 6lb. nodule.
It appeared to be a solid stone so I tumbled it 'as is' in its full size (using a rotary tumbler).
When I finished the polish process I took it out and examined it and it appeared to have a textured surface. I had failed to polish it.
I backed up the tumbling process to an early state and repeated it through polish with the same effect.
Discouraged: I smashed the stone into smaller pieces and then shaped them and polished them with my vibe tumbler (which is very effective at polishing).
The result was the same: textured surface, so I tossed the stones into a redo bucket and I noticed that they were mirroring the stones around them....They were polished!
The textured surface I was observing was embedded in the rock and dispersing the light, and the polish could only be seen at the correct angle.
Now I will always wonder if the large nodule I had polished in the beginning was perfect...and I had smashed it after months of work...
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