![]() The material in the other listing is a very nice variety of stones, is a bit bigger and will take a little more effort, but is easier than the stones in this listing. One listing is for stones that are very easy to break and there is a beautiful assortment of material. EXCEPTION : If you are going to break it up for your rock tumbler/s, TELL ME and I will avoid the very, very large pieces.> I also have two other listings for material to break up for tumbling. I will not pull out only certain kinds of stone, or certain sizes. It works along with the grit to grind down and smooth your stones.SELECTION IS COMPLETELY RANDOM. I put the chips and shards in my tumbler with the other stuff. Obviously the larger the stone, the more work it will take to break up. Don't be macho! You will get some pretty material for your rock tumbler. MAKE SURE you wear safety glasses and wear gloves when you do this. ![]() I use a 5-8 Lb sledge hammer and an anvil. **As with any rough stones, these may have cracks or pitting you will have to work around if cutting slabs for cabbing.NOTE: While most of this material will produce slabs (size of slabs will vary obviously), some won't.FOR TUMBLING ROUGH: You will have to break the rough stones up into smaller pieces that will fit your rock tumblers. Those can be used for breaking into tumbling rough, aquariums, or whatever your imagination comes up with. And, some are too small to cut slabs for cabbing. Others are small, with many of them allowing you to cut some small slabs. If cutting the very large ones, you would need a 14" slab saw or larger. I will update photos if I get better ones.FOR SLABBING ROUGH: Some of the pieces are very large. No matter how many times I have tried, I can't get better photos. As the material sells, what is remaining will always be changing. The 15 pounds will fill a medium flat rate box.The rough material that you see in the crates (in the photos) are some of the crates that your purchase will be pulled from. © 1999 - 2015, All Rights Reserved.THIS AUCTION IS FOR ROUGH ROCK FOR LAPIDARY USE AND ROCK TUMBLINGPLEASE READ ALL DETAILS CAREFULLY BEFORE PURCHASINGBreak up for rock tumblers, for cutting slabs, aquariums, outdoor fountains and waterfalls, etc.For each purchase, you will receive 15 POUNDS of rock. Product subject to availability limited to stock on hand. Large for 6 pound rock tumblers and larger.Īssorted Rocks to Tumble - 3 lbs. Medium 2" and smaller for the 4½ pound rock tumbler. Small - (as shown above) rocks up to 1" in size is perfect for a small 1½ or the 3 pound rock tumbler or polisher. This rough is available in different sizes - please specify size of tumbler to be used and choose from the following 3 sizes: Oregon Agate and Jasper - 3 pound parcelsĬonsisting of water worn (NOT hammer broken) cobbles of agate, jasper and petrified wood (as available) - small to large size mixtures are the perfect tumbling material for a balanced tumbler load! Mixing rough, fractured, hammer broken material with comparatively smooth beach cobbles or preformed materials will complicate the operation.Įarrings to pendant size pieces, excellent for all your craft needs!Īssorted Rocks to Tumble. You must start with good material to get good results. These stones are a 7 in hardness, (therefore they will tumble well together) and take on a nice polish! This tumbling mix will make a great gift for the rock hound, to produce beautiful pebbles for: jewelry making, fountains, garden, aquarium, lamps or other home decor. Leave the Apache Tears, obsidian, garnets, amethyst, Petoskey stones and mixed material until later.Įxcellent Tumbling Rough Oregon Agate & Jasper Mix Stones that tumble most easily with the best results are water-worn stones that nature has pre-shaped. Some stones were dug out of the earth for cutting material while others were gathered from stream beds or along the ocean shores for tumbling material.įor those of you looking for something for your tumbler: we all learned to walk before we learned to run so endeavor to start with something easy for the first batch, like water worn beach agates, jasper & or petrified wood. We are therefore saving out just a few pieces for ourselves and offering out the entire remaining lots for sale. This winter we finally took the time to go thru it all and tossing out the junk material to cull out the salable material. There is more to these collections than we will ever get around to cutting in a lifetime! Most all of the material had not even been cleaned or sorted. Over the years we have obtained several 40 + year old estate collections that are now available for sale. Lortone Replacement Parts for your tumbler! Extra Heavy Duty Commercial 65 pound capacity Rock Tumbler! Commercial 20-40 pound capacity tumblers ![]() Home > Tumblers > Tumbling Rough > Agate & Jasper Mix Rough Rock to Cut or Tumble Polish - from Wesley's Trading Post, Newport
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