I found a bunch of colorful red and yellow jaspers up at Rocky Buttte, OR a few weeks ago, and two came out of first stage tumbling yesterday. After the tumble it opened up a whole new world in the rocks! Are these Jaspers-Agates? Jasper Moss Agates? Something else? I only have tumblers but would sure like to have a cabochon made out of that yellow one!
My knobs were wearing down on the barrels and the plastic thingies made them squeak. I saw this on a post a few weeks ago and showed my husband and he installed this set up on my Lortone and HF tumblers. I’m sorry I can’t credit the idea to the OP, I didn’t save the post! Anyways it was less than $10 for the rollers and L-brackets from Home Depot!
I dug up about 10 pounds of pet wood at Bear Creek Oregon a couple of months ago and tumbled about half of it so far. I was ready to start a new batch and noticed one piece is really sparkly in the sun. What causes that and should I tumble it?