Some Michigan Rocks That I Haven't Tumbled Before - Rocks in a Box 68
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 2022
- There are a couple things in this batch that I haven't tumbled before that I think you'll really like. The rest of the rocks are pretty nice too.
Thanks to Christina Jelinek for editing the closed captions for this video.
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Back in the 70’s I tumbled stones. Decided to become a Geologist. Now I’m retired. Watching your videos brings back my youth. Thank you for your videos.
One of my favorite minerals to tumble was Iron Pyrite. It is soft, but it came out like gold mercury when held in the hand! Beautiful!
I have never tumbled pyrite, and I haven't heard of many other people tumbling it. Now you've got me curious about it. I might have to give it a try sometime.
A very lovely assortment of rocks. They all came out really beautiful. The glass was very pretty as well. 😍🥰😇👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I wasn't sure what would happen with that glass. I was thrilled with the way that one turned out.
@@MichiganRocks I think it was one of the most spectacular peices. 😍🥰😇👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
A few of my very first tumble came out of polish this morning. The best were banded chert, a few nice pieces of Yellowstone River petrified / agatized wood, and a small Montana moss agate.
I attribute my success to your excellent tutorials. You "rock" !!! Thanks!
That's awesome, Richard. Banded chert is underrated in my opinion.
Loved the stones from your "secret" location. The fossil stones looked beautiful polished. Thank you for sharing.
I was surprised at how well those turned out. It was a nice surprise.
🙋♀️🌞Too many great rocks to pick a fave, but the lake Michigan fossils ❤were right up there!
Those were fun for me too since I hadn't tumbled them before. I was really happy with how they turned out.
The pink rock looked a lot like your swimmer's itch. Rocks in a box, always fun.
Come to central Minnesota and we'll load you up with agates.
That's not a good look!
Love those colors!
All those rocks are beautiful ! So many different colours and patterns , that piece of multicolour glass is gorgeous 🤩😍👍
I really didn't know if that glass would polish or not. I was very happy to see that it did.
@@MichiganRocks I’m glad it did too and it turned out to be a wonderful piece too 👍🥰
There were some neat ones. I liked the multi color glass the best. That would make a cool pendant. Pretty on both sides. I liked the format of seeing which trip and the beach where you picked the rocks up. You have a good memory.
I don't have that good of a memory. I had the rocks in separate boxes labeled by beach when I took the before pictures.
Nice touch going back to the beach where the rocks come from. Pretty rocks! Thanks. Suzy AZ USA
Thanks!
I found some pink rocks with green jagged lightning marks that run through the rocks. I found them on Lake Superior I cut them with a saw but didn’t polish them yet can not wait to do them.
Those sound really cool.
@@MichiganRocks Yes they are I don’t know what they are but they were about fist sized I had to cut them with my wet saw, the green lines went all the way through. They are very pink with bright green lines through out.
Those are amazing!!! The bright blue one is my fav
I love the before and afters! Great idea. Thanks for sharing.
Me too!
We went up to Van's Beach in Leland last weekend. Lots of dead fish. I love your videos. Keep up the great work.
Well that stinks!
Beautiful indeed
The rock at 8:35 is one of the coolest I've ever seen! Even though it might not even be a rock...
Nope, that's slag glass. Cool though.
Ahhh man, I really need to get a life! A rock hounding life. I found some cool stuff too so far, mine are from Lake Erie. ❤️❤️. The pink one is beautiful, my favorite.
Have fun man! Thinking of starting myself
I haven't hunted Lake Erie yet. Anything good there?
No, nothing really worth making the drive, if I find a good spot down here, I’ll share. ❤️
So much fun to see these. The UP is one of favorite places in the world!
One of my favorite places too.
Thank you so very much for the before and after pics. Stunning.
Your'e welcome.
A pink pendant would be beautiful. The blue glass would make a great bracelet. Nice box!
I'll have to try polishing a spot on the cab machine.
This was a extra-pretty, colorful Rocks in a Box. Thank you for showing them. Once again I've got to say I really like how you show the before and after in the same shot.
It's comments like yours that keep me doing those shots. I guess I like them too. They take soooooo long to do!
@@MichiganRocks I appreciate the extra time it takes you but, don't feel you HAVE to do it that way. Your videos are enjoyable however you precent them.
I loved the pink rock,there were so many pretty ones,they do not have to be perfect to be pretty !
Yep that one was a fun color even if it undercut some.
That is one beautiful pink rock!
Wow 9 mins or so. Wow 😳 AMAZING piece of glass
Always fun to try new material and see what happens. It's hard for me to get to the Rock hounding sites/mines I want to, but I was able to order gravel from Montana and look for sapphires and I'm still going to get a bag of ore from California to sort through. Rocks are just a passion
I have never ordered bags of rocks or pay dirt. Sound like it could be a fun thing to sort thought though.
@@MichiganRocks it is, and just Google mines that ship, or message on IG and I can recommend a couple
@@ktlivingherway516 For now I'm happy collecting my own stuff, but maybe some winter I'll give it try.
They turned out great. Funny how the slag and glass are the prettiest (to me). ❤️💔🦅🦅
Those were some of my favorites too.
Love the videos where you show what the rocks looked like originally! Helps to know what to look for 😊
These videos take many hours to make, so comments like that are good. They motivate me to keep making them.
@@MichiganRocks I love your channel! I’m in WI and this is making me start planning a trip to Lake Superior. I’ve never seen it, lived here all my life. Have been going to Lake Michigan a lot lately though! Just got my first tumbler too! There are a few Wisconsin rock hounds I’m subscribed to, but your channel is the best.
@@metalcowgirl34 Thanks, Cow Girl!
Very much enjoy these before & after videos from you. Thank you.
Glad you like them, Doug!
Super tumble! I was rockhounding Upper Michigan in May and found many of the rocks you have shown tumbled here. I’m tumbling my rocks now and your videos helped me get great results.
My two sisters rockhounded with me and when they picked up a rock I wasn’t sure would tumble well, I simply said, let’s give it a try. To my delight many are making amazing transformations like your rocks do in the video. Thanks again Rob!
You're welcome! Trying out new rocks is a great way to learn. I can show you lots of things, but there's nothing quite like experiencing it for yourself.
Thanks for showing what the various rocks look like polished. I would never have guessed that some of them would have turned out as well as they did. Even the ones with undercutting look great and show the color of the rock. I like this type of video, not that I don't like your others too.
Thanks, Rick. Seeing how much the rocks change during polishing is what I love about this hobby.
Right off the bat, that blue one is absolutely amazing.
Very nice outcome!
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Looks like I have a few of these... I'll have to watch again and try to learn something 😮
I have lots of them, but I only do the before and after pictures on the Michigan ones.
Super!!! Another Great Video!! You must be pretty cool, to get your two sisters and your wife out looking for rocks!!!! That is pretty neat!!! 🤗♥️🙏🏼
They all tolerate me. What more can I ask for?
@@MichiganRocks There is nothing else!! They tolerate you??? No, they all Love You!!! 🤗🤗
I wanted to thank you for the variety of content on your channel. I found your video on tumbling rocks for a year nonstop in my suggested feed about two months ago which piqued my interest in rock tumbling as a hobby. Your detailed videos about your tumbling methods have been especially helpful for me as a beginning rock tumbler (my four year old daughter and I are working on it together). With your instruction I have been able to do two really nice batches of rocks and achieve a beautiful shine without ever needing to read any instructions or do any trial and error. I'm also beginning to see what you mean about really preferring the perfectly smooth rocks over the more "natural" finish. They're both lovely in my eyes but there's something so satisfying about handling a really smooth, shiny, interesting rock.
I'm really glad I could help you out. It's a fun hobby to do with your daughter. I started out doing this my son when he was a bout twelve years old.
What a great batch! Very cool rocks. Thanks for sharing these Rob!✌️🤠
Tyfs ❤️
Beautiful
Great video rob !!!!😎
Such a beautiful box of rocks! The slag was some beautiful material but there were some other rocks in there that were gorgeous as well. There were just so many notable finds that were just so gorgeous! So beautiful, all of them!
It's always fun to tumble rocks that I found myself. I was lucky enough to find some good ones for this batch.
Those look great!
Wow Rob, I love how you put this video together. Showing the videos and scenery where you found them, plus the before and afters are awesome. These turned out amazing, what a shine! Love the variety and colors!
Thanks. It kind of took forever, but I like how it turned out.
absolutely beautiful!
4:25 is so interesting & rich - 3:31 is more of the banded iron that i think is powerful - that beach glass is super cool! turned out great
Beautiful collection. Really surprised how well the slag & fossils came out in tumbling. Thought you'd lose detail in line/print of fossil. Nice batch. Always good to see your family. God bless.
I was very happy with the slag too, considering I didn't give it any special attention.
The second one you showed is a tourmalinated quartz. I LOVE finding those. They have a great energy about them and are a beautiful treasure, in my opinion!
Thanks for the ID. It's a nice rock, but I don't believe rocks have any sort of magical energy. They do have potential energy if you hold them up in the air, and kinetic energy if you drop them.
@@MichiganRocks 🤣
Lovely rocks as always. Also, continuing to really appreciate the effort you put into the formatting on these videos.
I can't do this for all of them, but I like to give the Michigan rocks a little extra love.
All cool finds. I too love banded chert. I have some I found and polished. Turned out beautifully. I have some slag that polished nicely too. Love watching your box of rocks videos.
Banded chert is underrated. Awesome stuff.
These all turned out so beautiful! I'm always drawn to green rocks too, and you found some really nice ones!
Thanks.
Those are so pretty!! I love the pink rocks!
Nice box of rocks. Your videos are always fun and uplifting to watch. Thanks for sharing.
Glad to lift you up!
Lovely rocks Rob. Amazing and sometimes surprising results. Very enjoyable to watch.
Surprising results keep things interesting, whether good or bad. If they all turned out perfect, that would be too easy and not that fun.
@@MichiganRocks Exactly.
Oreo 😂 and banded iron are both nice!
Oh wow almost at the end you said something about a little green rock 💚... it looks like jade
It might look like jade, but I don't think we have any jade in Michigan.
Love Point Iroquois. Found it on a scenic drive.
It fits well on a scenic drive, being a really scenic place.
A very cool box of rocks.
The second rock from the beginning of the video looks like rutilated quartz.
It's very cool! But so are the rest... Neat glass tumbling too :)
It's not rutilated quartz. I have a couple pieces of that and it's completely different. I do see the similarity though.
9:16 The tumbled blue glass would make a beautiful pendant!
I enjoyed seeing the Point Iroquois Lighthouse, since I live in Iroquois, SD. The rocks are sure beautiful. Enjoyed the video !!!
Thanks, Mark. Hopefully you don't have so much swimmer's itch in your Iroquois.
cool!!
Great way to display your finds. I must also applaud your editing of this video. Really enjoyed this Box-O-Rocks episode.
Thanks, Dale. I was happy with how this one turned out.
Great video!!! Cool to see how these different rocks turned out. Thanks for sharing the information!
Keep rockin!!👍😎
Thanks! Glad you liked it.
lots of nice rocks & glass. stone #2 with the chicken footprints 👍🏻
Awesome variety! Even the not perfect ones are cool to see.
It's only fair that I show a few that aren't perfect along the way. If you pick up new stuff, that's bound to happen.
If your ever back up here near Curtis Michigan or by Grand Marais and we can show you our slag hideout as the slag you showed on this video is exactly what we find and big chunks of blue purple and green. Would love to rock out with you.
Sincerely'N'TRUTH d'Anthony
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.
Those were some great tumbled rocks! The two pink ones were great! I really like that you chose different types of rocks to tumble.
There is a pretty good variety here. I think I get bored with doing the same kind all the time and am drawn to unusual ones.
Really nice finds I like the pink rocks too!
I've always liked the way you explain as much as you can for me being a newbie great video 👍
Thanks!
Wow that piece of slag is gorgeous! And yes, you should try turning that pink rock into a pendant. That was my first thought when you flipped it over😂 It is very pretty even with the undercut.
That slag was really great. I love the swirls.
Such a wonderful video of your work. Really good job
Thanks, Jodi.
Wow! really nice job Rob, those came out very good.
Thanks!
Thanks those look really nice. Very good video format.
Thanks, John.
Mike Ryan has just clued me in on turquoise...it only crystalizes in Virginia...and I have a blue green crystalized piece of granite from a drainage pipe...a quarried stone... six-sided and flat on top... sure looks like turquoise color wise...
Sounds beautiful.
I have tumbled too many rocks like the one at 10:00. Try as I might I just can’t get rid of those micro pits. I think the rocks are just somewhat porous. I’ve also tumbled a number of fossils like the ones at 11:50 & 12:10. At first I thought the ones like at 12:10 were favosites that had metamorphosed into quartz but when you take a close look at the individual cells they are actually square shaped instead of hexagonal. I think banded chert is one of the most overlooked stones by newcomers. When you see them on the beach they sure don’t look like much but oh what a transformation when they come out of the tumbler !!!
I was thinking they looked sort of like favosites too, but not quite. I hadn't looked close enough to realize that the cells were missing a couple of sides. Good catch.
I agree completely about banded chert.
I think the black in the second photo is tourmaline. Sweet rock!
Other people have said the same thing.
Glad to hear I’m not the only one who doesn’t like cutting or tumbling the agates I find. I really appreciate their natural beauty and find it hard to do any work on them. I don’t really have the same sentiment towards agates I buy though, only the ones I find. Great video, a few of the “magates” you tumbled seem to be agate or Atleast chalcedony to me.
Sounds like we agree completely on what to do with our own agates.
4:26 One of my favorites. Usually found at Vermillion.
I think you used the wrong number. 15:30 is the very end of the video.
@@MichiganRocks fixed it. I’m a goof.
@@jermrocks007 I have done the exact same thing.
Your videos are such a joy to watch. I love all the green rocks also I think that long piece of colorful glass would make a pretty necklace.
I don't know what it is about green rocks that draw me to them. but I have noticed that I pick up a lot of them.
@@MichiganRocks that darker green on near the beginning of the video is absolutely stunning. As far as I know there may not be that many green rocks where I am?
@@hallowsgremlin8971 Green is fairly common here. Lots of epidote.
Nice rocks Rob...that swimmer's itch looked brutal.
That was awful.
Great video! You really have the before and after dialed in. I am collecting a bunch of banded Chert for my next visit to Alpena. Hint, hint... ;)
Those before and after pictures take forever. I am happy with how they turn out though.
Another great video! We depleted a bit of your stock at Olivet's! Bummed we didn't get to connect this trip...will maybe try again next year, or if we get lucky and find a teardrop camper...then we'll be heading back up to the up! Btw... no joy in petoskey today...there were literally thousands of dead fish along the shore ...worst in petosky, but down through charlevoix, and even acme...tons of algae as well. Did find a few baby petoskey in charlevoix, and we finally got to see the mushroom houses, and walk up sleeping bear dunes. Hope you had luck in Harrisville...we stopped there on Sunday en route to Alpena.
Harrisville wasn't very good. My neighbor Sam was with me and we found a bunch of tiny puddingstones to add to his tiny puddingstone collection, but not much else. I found one puddingstone that was big enough to tumble, but gave it to someone on the beach who hadn't found much.
I wonder why there are so many dead fish in Lake Michigan. That's kind of disturbing. I have never seen that. Fish flys (May flies) can stink like dead fish after they all die, but I haven't seen lots of fish washed up like that before. I'm sorry you had such bad luck.
The mushroom houses are awesome!
Sorry about the hunt. Turns out the dead fish are Ale wives and it happens like this every 10 years, lucky us!
Stay well
@@ebsinger3250 I guess I have heard of that, now that you mention it. I haven't experienced it though.
Another great job, and I like the way you change up your format!
I put some extra time into this one. They won't all be like this, unfortunately.
Changing it up...is good. You will probably come up with a new twist!
Beautiful box set Rob . But I have to say that I'm partial to the Beautiful glass you tumbled . Can't wait to see the next batch . Cheers my friend
I really liked the slag too.
@@MichiganRocks you have a great point about that . It is rather pretty to look at . Thanks for taking the time to reply.
There are some very pretty rocks. I cannot decide which would be a favourite 😕
The piece of glass that looks like a surfboard, reminds me of the murano fish that were popular here in the 1970s ( I have 10 of these around the house )
I just looked up "Murano fish" and I agree that the glass is similar. I wonder where my piece of glass came from. It seems to be from a much larger piece of glass.
@@MichiganRocks I didn't know if you did have the fish over there! I think they were fairground prizes.
It's not something like a stained glass window, so no, not sure
You have everyone looking for rocks.
My favorite one was the eye looking one that Nancy found. Guess you could say she has a good eye. Silly. : )
She does have a good eye, but I actually found that one. She found another eye rock that I confused it with.
@@MichiganRocks Not sure how you remember all the specific rocks, guess videos helps. You are definately a good lapidarist. Thank you!
Regarding water piks and ultrasonic cleaners... I have used both, and both do a great job of cleaning. However, the water pik likes to splash water literally everywhere, and the ultrasonic does indeed have a tendency to crack your rocks.
My friend Jonathan bought me a knock off Water Pik and it works great. I use it all the time. It does spray back a lot though. Better than cracking rocks.
@@MichiganRocks I agree-much better than cracking rocks!
Beautiful stones.
Really neat video too.
The first lot of beach stones are so like what I find here in NZ.
I have one similar to the very first Jasper, mine has a few fractures too.
That slag glass, I would call the Stat wars stone 😂
Really loved the other peice of glass.
Star Wars stone, I like that!
@@MichiganRocks yeh it's a cool name for it.
We cut a rock awhile back, it looked like the Joker from Batman.
Or so I was told 😂😂
I made a short video of it to show you.
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Sim eu quero. Agradeço a Deus todos os dias por onde moro.
3:24 I think that would be basalt with a quart vein. If it is that’s a nice shine on the basalt!
That's a good guess, I think.
0:57 I wonder if that is Quartz with little flakes of tourmaline in it (same with the one at 1:49 ).
Several people have suggested that. I don't really know how to identify tourmaline for sure, but it sounds like that's something I'll have to read up on.
The tiny one that was second to last with the little window looking area looks like a Cold Water Agate. I have a few like that. Some have more bands to them and some don't.
Like all the variety you tumbled.
I'm never quite sure of myself when identifying cold water agates. I suspected that one might have been one though. Thanks for the help.
I was just at Vermillion and Whitefish Point on Sunday looking for agates. It was cold and windy and I didn’t find any agates. The slag turned out really nice. I’ll have to try some.
I can't wait to get back up there. Cold and windy is better than hot with stable flies.
@@MichiganRocks That is so true! We also went to Munising and Marquette. There’s black slag on the beach at Bay Furnace near Christmas. Have you been there?
@@joyceknitsandsews Yes, I brought some slag home once and then returned it a few years later. It just sort of looked like black obsidian and I'd rather just tumble obsidian.
I wonder if that isn’t tourmaline in the quartz on that 2nd one? Those glass pieces from Marquette are wicked!
Could be tourmaline, I'm not sure.
Looks like tourmaline inclusions to me. Quartz with tourmaline is pretty commonly seen on eBay and Ali Express, not expensive, and I have picked up some examples.
@@JohnGotts Thanks, John.
man! I would give my left n....Knee for a chunk of banded chert! I am gonna make it up there this summer! Don't be surprised if you run into me!! lol Great video, thanks for sharing!
You'll have better luck finding some if you have both knees to help you move down the beach. Good luck!
LOL I believe you may be right!!
I would say 95% of the rocks l tumble, l have no idea what they are😆 but they usually come out just as nice as the ones you showed in this video. 😉 . Beautiful batch of rocks you have there.
You don't have to know what they're called to enjoy them or tumble them.
@@MichiganRocks this is very true.
I'd like to say, watching some of your videos has moved me to try tumbling. I did buy a 1lb tumbler (baby step) a while ago just to see if I would like to pursue tumbling any further. Well, today I'm ordering my 3rd 1lb tumbler. So my thinking is for purchasing a $65 tumbler, suits a inexpensive 'way to see' if I'll stick with it. It feels like I will. Keep your video's coming, thank you. Hope to visit the lake region someday.
If you buy any more tumblers, consider a Lortone 33B. It has two three pound barrels and isn't super expensive. Kingsley North and the Rock Shed are two god places to buy one. Links are in the description.
Make a video about tumbling glass
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Those fossils, in order of appearance, are a stromatoporoid, favosites, and two colonial rugose. Not sure about the last one. They look beautiful when they’re made of that chalcedony material! Just like what I find in my area of Lake Michigan
I was wondering if that first one was stromatoporoid. Someone else pointed out that the second one looked like favosites, but that the cells were rectangles rather than hexaogons. I thought that was a good observation.
@@MichiganRocks That is a good observation! I think the favosites vertical cross sections do tend to look like ladders
@@linden4372 I'll have to take a look at some other samples I have.
Some of your tiny rocks would look awesome as wire wrapped charms for bracelets.
I suppose they would.
That glass turned out awesome. Got me thinking, I wonder if iron slag would Polish in a tumbler?
I don't know what you mean. This is iron slag. It polished great.
@@MichiganRocks Ok, didn't realize that was iron slag. The iron slag around my area looks different, it is in a lot of the creeks and rivers where pig iron furnaces used to be.
Could the quartz rock with the black have tourmaline in it? The beach glass is beautiful. This box had some great rocks. Can anyone suggest a book or map where I can find some rocks on the Great Lakes? I'm hoping to come out there next month and do some rock hunting. I plan on camping from my vehicle. Just to save money and enjoy being outdoors. Never been past the Wisconsin border on the west side. Really would like to find a variety of rocks to take home. Especially like banded iron, pudding stone and petoskey. Any rocks from there would be great. Nice side by side comparison Rob!
There's a map at the Michigan Rockhounds site. They're currently working on redoing the map and adding a lot more information to it. www.michiganrockhounds.com/map
Other people suggested tourmaline for that quartz rock. I don't know how to positively identify it.