u/Pokemon-Nerdy

I was chopping this piece of wood by hand and these nubs were in the wood, how do I tell when a piece of wood has those so I don’t damage my axe

It’s a hard wood, during the spring and summer thorns grow from the side

Carved out of only god knows what was in my yard and not sanded, it’s good for pouring grit into my tumbler! Took me a couple hours but I’m really happy because it actually looks like a spoon instead of whatever my first one was!

I lost the little spoon thing that came with my rock tumbler so I took a scrap piece of wood that I have no idea the species of and carved this! If this gets taken down I understand I just paired my two favorite hobbies into one

Ps the dogs name is Hank Williams so say hi

I might try to use my diamond dremel bits to sand it down some more but seeing a rock based off of my own great state is fun

Thank you to everyone who followed this stupid journey of an idea I had. I took a square ring from an 8 dollar hot topic ring pack to a rock tumbler putting it through all 4 stages. The results were interesting.

On week 1 it was mostly square with some copper shining through on a rectangle, the ring could still stand on its own, but be able to roll the polish was taken off noticeably

On week 2 that rectangle was barely visible and the ring had become thinner and struggled to stay on its own bit still could and the rolling got smoother

On week 3 the ring had lost the copper rectangle and became very noticeably smoother, it could now fit my pinky toe when it could not

On week 4 it can now not stand on its own but can roll extremely well. It dips in the middle and expands in the corners. The copper rectangle is completely vanished but on the inside it’s still slightly visible. The polish is completely gone and now looks like a grey wet river rock.

All in all I would do this again with multiple different rings. It’s really fun! My other rocks didn’t have any motions damage from having the metal in there. If you do decide to do this I might add that it could smell, I don’t know why but chemical reactions are crazy.

Thanks for the 8 or so people who stuck with me through this journey, it was nice not speaking into the void.

Bye! Thanks for everything!

Today we got the ring back from stage three! So to update the inside is still copper but it’s a lot smoother, some sides are now in fact lumpy where they used to be straight. It rolls rather nicely and can fit on my pinky toe comfortably! I can’t wait to see how it will shine (if it does) on stage 4 I put them through a quick 2 hour soap cycle first though. Check back in a week for updates

Update! Step two just completed today! As you can see the ring has lost most of its orange copper look and is a lot smoother, also interesting it’s more thin on the inside because I found a small rock in there stuck between the middle of the ring! It still rolls very nicely actually and fits on my finger well. Stay tuned for week 3

Urinal is right outside the door of the toilet so if someone’s taking a piss you can’t get out of the stall

Started pure copper alloy type stuff, now after a week of tumbling on stage one it can roll slightly on the table where it was unable to before, its smoother and on all sides now instead of copper its a orange rectangle?

So I put this kind of ring, (not that exact one but a basic picture of it that’s pretty much the same) it was a cheap ass hot topic ring made out of a really cheap alloy, so I decided it would be fun to put it in the rock tumbler to see how the square shape changes after a couple weeks and if it becomes more shiny or what. I’ll post changes, right now it’s in stage 1

I was turning on my lathe with a fresh sapling to maybe make into something and the bark slide off like butter! I wasn’t going at high speeds just slow to get it ready to turning when it calmly fell to the ground. The craziest part is the notch in wood where a branch was growing didn’t come off with it! Just stayed there, the hole didn’t break in the bark either, very cool