Tumbling Lake Superior Rocks from Last Summer
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- čas přidán 16. 04. 2020
- Last summer, I went to Lake Superior and found a few rocks. In this video, I tumble those rocks.
Here's the recipe I used to tumble these. It's the same one I use for just about everything.
Rotary tumble using coarse grit, such as 46/70 silicon carbide. Check rocks weekly and set aside any that are acceptable. There is no set time for this. Each rock runs as long as necessary.
Lot-O Tumbler:
2 days with 2 Tablespoons 220 or 120/200 silicon carbide grit
3 days with 1/2 teaspoon 500 aluminum oxide grit and 1 tablespoon borax
2 days with 1/2 teaspoon aluminum oxide polish and 1 tablespoon borax
Optional: burnish for 2 hours or more in 2 tablespoons of borax
Videos showing where I picked these rocks up:
Grand Marais: • Rock Hunting in Grand ...
Perry's Landing and Two Hearted River: • Perry's Landing and Tw...
Vermillion Point: • Rock Hunting Vermilion...
How to Make Stone Crosses: • How to Make Stone Crosses
Making Petoskey Stone Turtles: • Petoskey Stone Turtles
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Me: _"Ugh I should really go to bed..."_
CZcams: "Want to see a man grow a beard while rocks get shiny?!"
Me: _"DO I!?"_
Of course you do. Check around to see if you can find any paint to observe while it dries while you're at it.
I need ear muffs, its snowey & cold out lol.
The evolution of the rock and the beard at the same time😁♥️
That wasn't an accident. There are better videos featuring the beard on the way.
Michigan Rocks the daily growth time lapse of beard growth the the last epic shot clean shaven for summer😅
Lol was thinking same 😁
Michigan Rocks do you have instagram account or facebook
Some of those scraps would make great jewelry. Someday I will own a tumbler and do this. You have firmed my resolve to do this. Thanks!
You're welcome. Or possibly, I'm sorry.
Michigan Rocks yes, both!
He should give/sell you his small scraps for jewelry. Not sure what his plan is for all his small ones. But seems like a great way to put use to his scraps and allow you to make your jewelry. No need for you to go through the huge process of tumbling and investing in all the supplies. Reduce, reuse, recycle/upcycle! We are in this together and let’s work together!
Lindsey O I appreciate the support. But honestly I do not want him to give me stuff. He has a great collection and I admire it. It does fire my imagination. But I am capable of finding stones to make jewelry with on my own. Thanks for the vote of confidence though!
@@lindseyo8739 I did send a box of scraps to someone who makes jewelry once. Lately, I've been making little animations with them. There have been a couple of my animations in a couple videos, but I can't remember which ones right now.
It always amazes me how beautiful the natural world is. These rocks are so full of colors. Gorgeous! Thanks for sharing.
God does good work, doesn't he? Thanks for watching.
You are so good at judging when they will be done. Patience’s is a good thing.
The judging isn't difficult. It's not saying, "ah, that's good enough" that's tough.
Great looking batch.
Thank you.
Fascinating really all your stones turned up lovely amazing. Thanks for showing your lovely video.
You're welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
They’re all gorgeous ! ❤️ them . Thank you so much for showing us these treasures 😊
You're welcome!
Great video with some beautiful rocks. Never tire of seeing them. Thanks for sharing. Davin
Absolutely great rocks... cant even choose a favorite. When i think i have, boom i love that one also...
No need to pick a favorite, you're allowed to like a bunch of them.
That flat green one is beautiful ❤️
Nice to see your process for tumbling. I'm still wrapping my mind around it. Cheers Man!
Have you watched my long video about tumbling Mexican crazy lace agate? That video shows my process in much more detail.
To me, they are all absolutely beautiful! Thank you so much for showing us! Hope you are happy, well and safe! Hugs to you and yours from Windsor, Ontario.
We are doing well here. I’m glad you enjoyed the rocks.
My friend here is a real rock hound. These are some of his favorite minerals.
Wish you didn't have to move away buddy.
I'm sorry you and your friend are going to be separated.
That mottled purple and red is gorgeous! So many unique stones!
It's so much fun picking your own rocks to tumble. Sometimes a rock or two doesn't shine up, but most do. It's fun to see how they change.
amazing results with the polishing. Rocks look great.
Thanks!
These are gorgeous!!!
Thanks , rocks r beautiful.
These are beautiful!
So many ideas go through my head with a small drill hole and some beading wire for those beautiful little scrap stones. Earrings, necklaces etc... Thanks for sharing♥️
If only those thoughts went through my head, huh? I really don't have huge urges to make jewelry.
I love your show man. Just so very tasteful, you know? Taste is everything. If you've been taught to taste you are special, and so is your teacher. If only more of the wise would get involved. Save Our Children! Please!
Those cans out amazing. The variety, color, and patterns were really cool. Was fun to watch. Great video
Very informative, and I really like the stills at the end of the video. Beautiful work.
Thank you very much!
The Epidote is now tied with Malachite as my favorite stones. Great pieces!
If you have any malachite, I'll trade epidote for it anytime. I like epidote a lot, but malachite is incredible.
Excellent!!!...the unakite and Jasper are phenomenal!!..I must get one of those lottos!..well done boss!
The Lot-O is a great machine.
Amazing collection,looks very shiny,well done!!! Always thank you for shearing...
Glad you liked them, Lina.
Love the variety of rocks and sizes so B~E~A~U~T~I~F~U~L. Thank you....Enjoyed .
Thanks for watching!
Wow!!! Lots of those are truly stunning and unusual to look at!! The color combinations and patterns are wonderful and unique!! (And I learned a few things!!!). Thanks for sharing!!
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
Love the ryoloite!!!!! I am so envious you know what the rocks are!!! I just think..look.. that's pretty!! Lol!! Stay healthy & stay safe!!
That was a really nice one, wasn't it?
Soooo beautiful
thank you so much for taking the time and sharing, enjoyed the video very much 👍👍
You’re welcome!
Love, love, LOVE the jaspers!
Shiny, aren't they?
These are stunning!!
That's what keeps me going to Lake Superior to look for more.
Fantastic results!
Thanks!
Those are lovely. What interesting and beautiful rocks you have up there on the Canadian shield!
We do have some amazing rocks up here. I’m not sure that the area I found these in is considered to be part of the Canadian Shield though. These were mostly found in the eastern U.P. According to the map I just looked at, the Canadian Shield starts on the other side of the lake. I could be totally wrong though. Some of the rocks, on the other hand, would have definitely come from the Canadian Shield, so you still make an excellent point.
Perfect stones my dear....
Thanks!
Love the show and tells.......I'm always up for lookin at cool rocks!!!! I have to say some of my favorites in your collections are the Epidotes.....just that shade of green is gorgeous!!!!
That's funny that those are your favorites. I've tumbled so much epidote that I guess I take it for granted. It is pretty though.
You can take all the time you want..... thoroughly enjoyable videos!
Thanks, I'm glad I didn't bore you.
Very nice.
They came out beautiful Rob, great job
Thanks!
The cross scraps would look great in an aquarium! Very nice! Thank you 😊
I don't have an aquarium, but I did give some to someone who does crafts once. She was very happy to receive them. I have also made a few little animations in some of my videos using them.
I love those BIFs. Good to see you. You and yours stay safe and havagudun.
Yeah, the BIFs are pretty cool. Plus, you get fun, red slurry in the tumbler.
Great job. Cannot wait for the snow to melt. Need to get my rock fix. Getting board watching Tumblr go round and round and round.
I know how you feel. The end is near.
Beautiful stones. Good luck.
Thanks!
There all so pretty ..
The green ones with other colors are my favorite..
You make me want to go look for rocks but i dont have a tumbler to polish so that stops ..
Thank y and u for sharing ..stay healthy ...🥰
If you start collecting rocks now, you'll have a good supply by the time you get a tumbler. Or you could just enjoy them natural. Getting out looking for rocks is fun even if you don't bring any home or polish them.
Every one of those scraps are nice beautiful, i wish someday got one or more scraps like that.,. Thanks for youre amizing video.
Lake Superior has some really pretty rocks.
I also started working in this way, but in central Poland it is hard to find nice stones. I have mostly unakite, flint, quartz, sometimes nice colored granite. I've learned a lot from your videos.
I'm not sure where in Poland Polish flint comes from, but it's really nice. I find some chert around here that looks just like it, but it's a very rare find.
Nice!!!! So pretty!
Thanks!
Very nice
I like watching your beard grow through these videos! Really cool rocks, thanks for showing how you tumble and process!
This video was super interesting. Thanks.
Cool, I'm glad you liked it!
Beautiful!
Thanks.
Thank you so much for this info, I am a newbie at this tumbling thing and your video is extremely helpluf!
I have a bunch of videos on how to tumble that might be even more helpful.
I will watch the video well.
Have a nice day .. ^^ ~
Tbh I love that you don't know what some of them are, I'll start rock tumbling myself and have no idea what I'll be doing so... This doesn't make me feel like an idiot
I sure don't feel like an idiot. It's really hard to identify all rocks. I have plenty I could still learn, but I have to start somewhere. Identification isn't my main priority. My goal is to be able to shine them up, no matter what they're called.
They are all so beautiful. I wish the tumbler I had did that kind of work.
It probably does. What tumbler do you have? The directions usually don't recommend nearly enough time for each stage, especially the first stage. Did you notice that a lot of time had passed from when I started the video to when it ended? Go watch my video on tumbling crazy lace agate. You can see exactly what I do to get them shiny. If you only have a rotary tumbler (like most people), the same results are possible, it just takes a little longer. I have two videos on rotary tumbling in the works. They should be posted in a month or maybe a little longer.,
Hi 👋 love your content thank you !
I could have soooomuch fun with those endslabs!
Fantastic results, really gorgeous Jasper and other types of rocks....lovely!!! Thanks for sharing! (&interesting beard timeline :)
I like mixed batches. The variety makes them more interesting.
@@MichiganRocks I agree, but your "uniform" box collections are also gorgeous.
@@Smallathe I do like to keep things organized by rock type when I can. These are organized by geographical area where they were found. I have both homogenous and heterogenous boxes, so we'll get to see both.
Wonderful video. I really enjoy watching these. Somewhere around 1843 you have a brown rock and don't know what to call. Neither do I, but it did remind me of melted chocolate, so of course now I'm watching your videos and snacking.
I'm glad you found some chocolate to get you through.
That Jasper is beautiful
this was awesome!
I’m glad you liked it!
I love the banded iron with metallic stripes!
I do too.
The little pieces would make a cool mosaic!!!
I suppose they could. I don't think I have mosaic skills in me though.
So pretty! I have to admit, when you went from clean-shaven to bearded wild man, I laughed. Thanks for the video, Rob. :)
There are even better beard videos in the works. Stay tuned.
@@MichiganRocks :) You know I will. Stay safe!
Great video. So many of the rocks reminded me of food. Blue cheese, chocolate and a mix If ketchup and mustard. I wasn’t even hungry when I watched it. Go figure!😆
I"m not hungry after reading your recipe.
Hematite is nice and the jaspers. Love the end cuts. I need to get some epoxy and strong magnets. Project ideas. Hmmm!!!
😍😍😍👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💥very nice! I like the beard too! 👍🏼
Thanks!
Great video buddy! You definitely need a stockpile of extra 😉junk to fill the void!They turned out fantastic!!!
Yeah, I was happy with them. Thanks for watching.
This makes me want to use my little rock tumbler again.
You should!
Thanks for the recipe! I haven’t got the final “shine” on my rocks, I’m going to try the borax in the burnishing stage.
If they're not shiny after the polish stage, don't expect burnishing to get them shiny. Think of "burnishing" as "cleaning".
me encantan las piedras,estoy facinada con sus videos
Me alegra que te gusten.
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Haha blotchy rock, that's how id rocks too. Always a treat to peruse a batch of rocks.
I would like to make drawer pulls with some of those
I did that once. My niece who grew up in the U.P. was moving into a new home in North Carolina. She decorated a bathroom in a U.P. theme, and I made some drawer pulls for her. I thought they turned out pretty nice.
@@MichiganRocks
Oh that's the best. You can make towel or clothes hangers too. My next trip up to the mitten i will collect some beach or river rocks.
Beautiful work buddy! Love the Michigan stones, especially the lake rock! Wish I lived closer to get me some of those lake shore rocks. Hopefully I can find someone selling rough stones online. Someday I'll travel across the States to go home to Michigan and pick some up. Love the channel!
I think Michigan would be a good vacation destination. It's a beautiful state, especially the U.P.
When I look at shiny round rocks I always think they’re fake. Even though that’s a dumb thing to think
Not only are they not fake, they’re also not coated with anything. Some people think something shiny has been painted on. I guess some people do that, but I don’t.
I know you don’t, but for whatever reason my brain just tells me it’s fake lol
I used to think the sane thing! In my case , seeing was not believing!
Thank you so much, any recommendations on a starter rock tumbler? Cheers from Appleton, WI.
I'd get a Lortone. My first tumbler was a Lortone 33B. I still have the tumbler, but I'm only using the barrels on my large homemade tumbler now. Lortone is behind on production due to COVID, but I believe they are still making them. Most places are out of stock. The place that usually has the best prices is The Rock Shed. That's where I buy most of my supplies. rockshed.com
Beautiful! How do you get them so shiny and gemmy after tumbling? Mine are always dull and matte when not wet. Please share 🌼
Here’s my complete process: czcams.com/video/ksrmpPZrAuU/video.html
Thank You !!! Always interesting and informative. I had a rock the other day that was similar to the dark part in your camouflage rock, kind of a brownish/purplish color. Try as I might I could only get a very mediocre shine to it, even by using sandpaper. When I looked at it under a magnifying glass the surface had the appearance of an orange peel and I just couldn’t smooth it out !
That's exactly what people call that texture, "orange peel". Some rocks are definitely more difficult to polish than others. I haven't tried anything else with the camouflage rock yet.
Michigan Rocks I even tried diamond paste polish that I used at work to polish tungsten carbide tooling and that didn’t even faze it. We got about 3 inches of snow here in northern Indiana today, Crazy !!!
@@davidhile5363 I was out kayaking today. It was in the mid thirties when I took off and got up to about 45. Earlier this week my sister got about 18 inches at her house in Marquette, MI. Snow is gone here, but there were icicles on any branches close to the water this morning.
Ficaram lindas, como você fez para lapidar assim, queria ter visto esta lapidação
unbelievable!
Never throw those fragments from sawing away! They make great tumbler fill, and sometimes come out really nice.
I never do.
Awesome
Haha! I've only ever seen you with the big beard!
Your 'pink' rock with the little red flecks looks like maybe a garnet sandstone to me.
Great polish on them!
That was only the fourth time I've ever had a beard in my life. The longest I ever had a beard for was about two months. This was four months. It won't be back for a long, long time.
The pink rock you're talking about, is that the one I thought was quartzite? If it was sandstone, I don't think it would polish. It would be too coarse and crumbly. I've never tried to tumble sandstone, but that's what I've always thought. Would there be a test to check to see if that's what it is?
@@MichiganRocks They can be very similar if the sand grains are mostly quartz. You're right that most sandstone won't take a polish, but again, if it's mostly quartz it can. The difference would be that quartzite would be more angular grains of quartz, arranged more or less parallel. Sandstone made mostly of quartz would be well-rounded grains with some sort of cement between them. Usually this would be carbonate, which again would tend to be crumbly, but if the grains are very small, or the cement itself is of a silicious nature, a true sandstone made of quartz grains could polish up like that.
Hahaha, I'll always think "Oh yeah, no beard!" when I watch your videos from now on! Thanks for showing the rocks! I always love seeing what other people get from other parts of Lake Superior!
Hermosas.. 😍
They’ re so beautiful 💖Thanks for sharing!
Michigan sure has some pretty rocks.
Wow another nice selection of rocks. Sure wished you sold them.😁
Sorry about that.
What would would want for those tiny squares? They are cool c:
I just want them to be happy.
Wow! Beautiful rocks. I have just recently started this hobby and have a tumbler on the way and the different grits and polish. I only hope I can achieve half the results you did. I'm curious why you don't tumble the agates? You have some great videos and it is so helpful to a newbie when you identify the rocks. Now I have to watch how you make the stone crosses.
I did tumble some Lake Superior agates that one of my subscribers sent to me. But I have trouble tumbling my own finds. They tend to be pretty small and I don't want them to disappear from over tumbling, which I tend to do. They're so pretty just the way I find them, that I've decided that those are going to remain unpolished.
Cool !!!
My wife and I have watched many of your videos on rock hounding and tumbling. We went to the UP a couple of years ago and my wife really go into tumbling the rocks we found while there. We are returning in June thru the first couple weeks of July and wanted your recommendations on some of your favorite places on Lake Superior to find good rocks. We didn't even know about Petoskey Stones till we started watching some of your videos. We hope to find some and some pudding stones which we knew nothing about as well. We will be in L'Anse, June 19-25, MCLain State Park, June 25-28, Gwinn, June 28-July 2, Moran, July 2-4, Sault Ste. Marie, July 4-5, Brimley State Park July 5-11. We are willing to drive to find good Michigan rocks. If you happen to be in the area, we'd love to buy you lunch and pick your brain on rocks and would really love to tag along if you are rock hounding in our area to learn more from you. Whatever...thanks for all your videos, they are very helpful.
Hey Kurt, you probably won't find Petoskey Stones or puddingstones in Lake Superior. Could you send me an email so I can give you a list of beaches? It's a little long to put in a CZcams message.
Obrigada pela atenção💝
Those Jaspers shined up a treat. Great work. When I used to tumble, the only rocks that got to a shine were the agates. Do you ever find blue lace agate? TFS 💖🦅🦅
Nope. I don't know where blue lace agate is from, but it's not Michigan.
Blue Lace is found in Namibia, South Africa and small deposit was found in Romania.
@@joepoydack7536 Thanks!
I loved the red/green unakite slabs! Could the first pink one be the feldspar? I love the epidote as well!
You mean the pink striped one that isn't all that pink? No, that's not feldspar. Feldspar is easy to recognize because of the cleavage planes. They really catch the sunlight when you move them back and forth. This rock didn't do that.
The flat pieces of rock would make a beautiful natural backsplash either in the kitchen or in the bathroom. I would love my bathroom covered in it instead of tiles.
I agree, but I'd have to produce a whole lot more of them. I don't think my wife would go for that either. I'm glad she lets me make a mess and a lot of noise in the basement. I don't want to push my luck.
Fantastic. They came out great. Really enjoyed that, thanks again 👍🏼
I sure was happy with the results.
Can you over tumble rocks? And does the ceramic pieces work as medium and fine grit media?
Over tumbling would just result in smaller rocks in most cases. There are some rocks that start to get worse in the finer grits. Puddingstones are a good example. The matrix in puddingstones starts to get little holes and it gets worse in 500 grit and polish. So I don't run those as long in the last two stages. For most rocks, the longer you run them in the last stages, the better. This is especially true with rotary tumblers. You may be able to see better results by running two or even three weeks in polish. At some point though, you'll be wasting time and electricity.
The ceramic media can be moved along with the rocks from stage to stage. I never use it in the coarse stage. You don't need it in the 220 stage, but I use it just because it's easier to have it there so the volume is the same from 220 to polish. With plastic pellets, you need dedicated plastic for each stage because the grit gets embedded in the plastic.
Do you have a store where you sell some stones?! These stones are gorgeous 😍
No, sorry. I don't have time to ship out rocks and make videos. It's one or the other, so I choose to make videos.
Can you pick up that banded iron jasper by dragging a magnet behind you as you scour for rocks?
I’m pretty sure that hematite is not magnetic. Magnetite is slightly magnetic, but not enough to find it by dragging a magnet through the rocks. Sure would be cool if that would work though.
The last picture you show some rocks with some very pretty blue in them. Did you identify what they were? Heather
I"m not sure which rocks you're referring to. I just looked at the group shot at the very end of the video. I see two small, squarish rocks at the top of the picture that I would call green. Those are local green quartz. I've only found two rocks like that, so they're not at all common. There's the edge of a rock just right of center at the very top that looks much more blue. I have no idea which rock that is. I wonder if it just looks blue in the picture. If you're talking about some other rock, let me know where it is in the picture and I'll take another look.
I have a softball sized unakite and no idea what it was called, now I know! Found it near Sleeping Bear Dunes. Have you done a video going thru your tumbler cabinet and setup yet?
Yes, I have two videos about my big tumbler.