Noob here. My first batch is just finishing up its 6th week.
I have an ultrasonic cleaner that I am planning on using between stages. My question is - would there be a benefit to using multiple cleaning methods, or is that just overkill?
Of course I’m rinsing with plain water, then I plan to go into the ultrasonic cleaner. Would there be a benefit to adding a burnish, or even a water pick?
This is from my first batch after 2 weeks in stage 1. I know it’s very smooth for only 2 weeks, but it started as a pretty smooth beach rock. Found on a beach in New Hampshire- so I’m guessing it’s a type of quartz maybe?
My question is - is the “crackly” look just the way the rock looks, or did I bruise it? I included what I’m pretty sure was the before picture.
I just opened a brand new HF tumbler and it absolutely stinks. My first thought was cigarette smoke. When my husband got home he asked me if I had been smoking cigarettes. Do they always smell like this, or did I get one that a chain smoker returned? The smell is on the box and everything in it.
She had given me a list of people to call when it happened. It sucks having to say over and over, “I’m just glad she’s at peace now”. What I really want to say is THANK GOD!! Now I will get a moment’s peace. But no one saw her crazy except me, my husband and kids. I have one sibling who always says the mom he got was completely different from the one I got. He believes what I tell him, but says he never experienced it.
She died in ICU. Her last 2 hours or so she was either talking in her sleep or delirious, I’m not sure which. Talking nonsense with her eyes closed. In that 2 hour period I heard my own name over and over, but no one else’s. Not my dad who died 2 years ago, not my brother, just me. That pretty much summed up the last 2 years of my life, her calling my name over and over. Thank god it’s over.