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Hi! Just came across your video. I am having trouble successfully drilling cabs for jewelry. Polished agates and jaspers are so hard! I have a Dremmel 4000 with the work station (like a drill press), use water, diamond 1-1.5 mm drill bits, and the wooden block in water like you do. I finally got ahold with a customer service rep at Dremmel. She said “no” Dremmel can drill through either jasper or agate…”the Dremmel just isn’t powerful enough! “ I was totally disheartened, as I have spent a fortune on the 4000, work station, bits, universal collets, etc! …..and now I see you actually CAN drill through them by watching your video! QUESTION: what special process, if any, do you use when drilling through the front-to-back (for a pinch bail for a pendant) when you are using a flat back, rounded top, and polished cab? How to keep it from slipping around on that rounded/curved face of the cab? I am becoming so frustrated with cracked stones and broken drill bits! Any help would be GREATLY appreciated! Regards, Virginia

Thanks. I learned a bunch!

12 lbs. is a lot of rock. Did you start with just the two 3lb. barrels, or jump right into 12 lb.?

It's good to review all the older videos to learn the things you learned along the way, or simply to experience them for their entertainment value. Thanks for posting!

It's easy to tell that you are enjoying your rocks and tumbling early on.

Three years later :) I watched, liked, and now commented. Was already subscribed!

This video rocks! 🪨

Run those rocks in an ultrasonic cleaner and it'll get the slurry out of that quartz

Like the cricket

What kind of tumbler do you use?

Can you suggest any good drill bits?

Omg, here we go with the music. My Dremel doesn’t play that god awful tune. It is super annoying.

Does the drill matter that is used?

Holy cow! This machine looks like it takes forever! I don't have 50 hours to spend on six rocks! I'd need like a row of 12 of those things running nonstop! Looks like I'll be sticking with the rotary flat lap indefinitely. This video was good for giving me the time perspective. Most people kinda gloss over that aspect of the machines. Thanks! The hands-off production is still very alluring...

It's a great video, which Dremel are you using and which size of bits, is this the smallest size? Thanks so much

the pvc is porous, does this cause grit contamination?

This is The Video I needed. My husband tumbles beautiful stones and I would love to have a Tiger Eye necklace. I’m not in to wire wrapped jewelry. Thank you for such details! ❤

That’s not a flaw or a crack, it’s a vein of iron running through it.

They turned out beautifully! Did you get the rough rocks from the Rock Shed? I want to get some.

Good video man. Suggestion, always give quick description of your equipment like your dripper. I’ve been looking to set up portable small dripper. Use to use roller clamp slides on my wine making tubing to control flow on ideas.

Thanks for sharing! Got lots of stones that need holes.

Nice work on your obsidian! I am about to tumble it for the first time and these videos and comments give good tips. Read up on Oregon obsidian if you haven't already. Little glass butte, an endless source of obsidian, has over 250 kinds of obsidian on the mountain. I find that completely mind-blowing. I didn't even know there was 250 kinds of obsidian! Gold sheen, purple sheen, red sheen, silver sheen, rainbow, snowflake, and FIRE (sorry, sports fans, all claimed up), the only obsidian that sells by the CARAT. Little Glass butte has it all. It's quite fascinating, actually. But maybe I just say that because I'm a geology nerd. 😂

I’m so pleased when I googled how to tumble obsidian yours came up the top 😂😍

Wow just beautiful ❤

Very nice. I was given an old(ancient) one, but the motor is massive and I want to replace it with another. Can I use a washing machine motor?

can you share the links to the set? my wife started doing this and my old diamonds are shot.

May I ask the spacing width of the bars your 12 pound barrels sit on. I want to make a tumbler with 12 pound barrels. Thanks 😎

Really interested in

Please stop with the excessive and redundant narrative to help reduce overall time of your video. Not interesred in seeing your inspection of 20 rocks. 4-5 would be perfect after each tumble stage.

Your mahogany obsidian turned out beautifully! Good job👏...After a long wait I'm finally going to run my mahogany, snowflake, and regular black obsidian! It took a while, but I finally received my Lot-O vibratory tumbler in the mail. I was on a waiting list for a while. No one had any...Can't wait to get started, too excited! 😎

Turned out good, nice video! I'm having a really hard time finding a Lot-O vibratory tumbler. Every place I call & online are sold out and don't have any Idea when they'll get them in. Any help finding one would be much appreciated!

Try using alumin oxide at 500 grit stage and above. Will increase "shine" on your rocks. BTW cerium oxide is great for glass and obsidian but not so for other materials. If you doubt this look at the ingrediant on glass range ceramic polish....You guessed it cerium oxide. GLASS or OBSIDIAN ONLY.

Hold your narrative down. You keep repeating. Video getting to long to enjoy.

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Use a ultrasonic cleaner on the pieces in-between stages to get the grit out of the cracks

How long takes each stage (grit) ? Until job is 100% done?

Them are Beautiful / Gorgeous Creations

Shiny but ugly.

Are the daimond drill bits are around 1.5mm ?

A beautiful batch!

A lot of times those holes get bigger.

Where are you getting your weights

Great video on tumbling the obsidian. Just picked up a 10 lb chunk and looking forward to tumbling some myself

Don't you burnish in between grit stages?

Well, was gonna subscribe but looks like the channel is dead. To bad, you had some great content!

Do not use marker like Covington recommends in the manual. Marker will penetrate cracks & porous stones and stain them! Been there, done that. Instead use aluminum to mark your stones in a cross-hatch pattern. Aluminum gutter nails work great for this. They are also non staining.

Very well done video... enjoy it alot!

Hello Paul. Do you Rockhound and/or purchase your Rocks and from who/where?

We are Disabled Seniors with our 47yr old SON who is a Tetraplegic. We are recent Rockhounds and Lapidary. Rosie wife of 49yrs is Tackling the Rotary and Vibratory Tumblers. it is a very fun Hobby, Off course very difficult to Rockhound due to Physical Condition and mainly the terrain. So, we rockhound around our neighborhood and at rock shows with our electric wheelchairs-hehehe. We are taking on the task of making the finds into Jewelry for our family, Rosies idea and I like it. We came across your You The Tube Video/Channel, lied it and subscribe and hit / slapped the Like Thumb.

also love your videos