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Batch 68: Enough Slope Point Readies

It’s been quite hard to make a batch but I finally have enough Slope Point readies! Many of the stones have been sitting in the […]

I am down to the last of the stones that were collected from Kakanui and in particular a lot of these stones were picked up […]

One of the smaller tweaks I have been making to my whole tumbling stones process has been using less silicon carbide grit in my barrels […]

All of my rotary machines are Lortone Tumblers. I now run 2 x double 3lb barrels; 2 x 4lb barrels; 1 x 12lb QT12 and […]

This load of hydrogrossulars put into one of my 4lb tumbler barrels were all found on Monday, June 3rd – King’s birthday long weekend. I […]

Most of the 65 stones in Batch 63 are Gemstone Beach hydrogrossulars apart from a couple of quartzites (?) and a jasper. They had been […]

It took three F60grit (Stage 1) tumble cycles before there were enough Slope Point nuggets (stones) ready to make up Batch 62 to carry onto […]

I introduced the latest addition to my stone shed in this post. My early thinking was I would only use the QT12 Lortone Tumbler to […]

Batch 59’s stones have all come from Gemstone Beach and the mix of colour plus the various types of stones that one can find here […]

The stones for Batch 61 were readied for polish in the QT12 tumbler. They had previously tumbled in F60grit and 220grit so were waiting in […]