it's been a lazy wednesday it's felt like a sunday and um i'm not sure why i think it's because i was so productive yesterday that my body decided to not be productive today um but yeah that's also my fault so today's video we are going to talk about rock tumbling so this is my rock tumbler it's dirty because i'm currently using it i'm actually currently i'm actually currently fixing it um this part right here there's a little uh thick piece of rubber that actually is supposed to adhere to this and it has come off and it's causing my tum it comes off and so it won't tumble um this which is also dirty like i said because it's being used this is um the barrel that you use and i have my rocks in there i have a lot of rocks in there so this is going to take forever and eternity but that's the rocks look like in the middle of their tumbling i'm going to show you the different stages of them being tumbled and if you're going to do rock tumbling it's not a very expensive investment type of hobby makeup can get into priciness models model airplanes model cars model train sets those things become pricey things like that those are pricey habits but rock tumbling is not a very pricey thing if you want to get into it um i don't know how much my rock tumbler cost i got it as a christmas present a couple years ago but on amazon they have them for about thirty dollars um new or used they both all the listings are about thirty dollars so that's not terribly expensive um and it comes with your rock tumbling unit um the barrel and it also comes with um some rocks to tumble and the grit and some jewelry making pieces the refill kit that i got which which i did get off of amazon was only 9.30 and all it comes with is a bag this big full of rocks and i have some rocks in here that i didn't tumble it comes with the materials you need to tumble with it comes with some glue and it also comes with some jewelry making pieces so what you do is you start off with a rock that is called a rough rock so i will show you what a rough rock looks like this is what the rocks look like rough just very unexciting this is what the inside looks like um i broke mine so that i could see the colors because when you break open the rocks you can kind of guess what the colors will end up looking like so if you can i don't know how well you can see but that's kind of has a green and black tint to it so rocks that end up like that um usually end up looking like this after they're polished all the green comes out you can see all the little white rivets i don't know how well you can see the white rivets and some of the brown slits get speckled in there this is a quartz pink and calcite and white quartz and those tend to end up looking somewhat like this this one had just a little bit of pink um this is another you can probably see the green better in this one i hope maybe this one you can definitely see the green in this one so those ones all end up looking really really pretty not well biologically pretty this is what a white rock starts out looking like and they usually come out like this now personally i mean i think this looks pretty but i personally like the white rocks just as they are in real life i'm they're very very pretty looking i prefer that or i prefer naturally smoothed you know not polished by a tumbler kit but this does look nice and that's what the inside of one looks like i was curious now they so they start out really rough looking like i showed you and this is how they come out now to get to this point like where you can get it places they are very it takes a long time it's not you have to have patience for a rock tumbler it doesn't take a lot of effort and it doesn't take a lot of your time personally it takes a lot of waiting time um but in a way that's kind of good because you it's a hobby that you don't have to you don't have to invest a lot of money and you don't have to invest a lot of your personal time into you can you know how much you put into it is you know totally your thing but what you do to start out is you take your rough rocks and you put them into the barrel and then you have to add grit to it so i will show you the grits you have rough grit which is what this looks like it almost looks like pencil shavings this one and this is step one and it you can see there coarse grit so you pour that into there you mix a little water in it and then you just let it tumble and you let it tumble and the longer you let it tumble the longer the rocks will scrape against each other scrape against the grit and it will smooth it out so after a short while of tumbling this is a partially tumbled rock so that's what it looks like i cleaned this one off to show you guys so as you can see it's not as rough um looking as much much smoother the edges are not sharp this one has sharp edges and this one does not it still has that edge look but it's much smoother and you can see more of that shiny pretty underneath and there's some grit stuck in that little travis there i think that's cute not cute but amusing um and then after a while you know depending on how long you let that go because what it does is it speeds up the weathering process by a lot and it brings out this smooth color then what you do is you rinse them off a little bit not a whole lot but you rip them off a little bit to get that grit the coarse grit off of them and then you go into the medium grit which really finishes off the smoothing process it does any final bits to it this looks like shimmery gray eyeshadow that's what it looks and feels like it looks like if you tacked off a brush of makeup and it has that um crumble or maybe a gray pigment kind of look and feel to it don't recommend putting this on your eyes though that's dangerous don't do that and then after you do that your rocks will start to look like this this is a more tumbled rock i'm not going to finish tumbling this one because i thought that this looked really cool just like this and to finish off and you know you have to do this for a long time a couple months um just let them tumble and tumble and tumble and tumble and tumble and tumble tumble and then you change it out let it tumble some more and then you take this this last step this is just a fine it looks like powdered sugar and it is a white powder and it is the third step with it which is polish so you polish with this and this just does exactly what it says it polishes it gives you that final smooth shiny look kind of like when you buff your nails that's kind of what it is for people who are makeup people it's like buffing your nails with one of those um four-sided buffers to get that shiny shimmeriness that's the process that's going on with the rocks and it takes a while like i said it takes a bit of time on your part now if your tumbler stops turning um something you want to check for is this little rubber piece may have come off you may need to re-adhere that another thing to kind of be aware of is when you're tumbling say something my trains of thoughts just collided hold on when they're tumbling it it's not super loud but it's disturbing enough that you might want to turn it off during the day which means you'll have to extend your time of tumbling if it doesn't bother you or you live somewhere where there's not a lot of neighbors you have to worry about apartment buildings may have a harder time pulling the tumbler off you'll have to put some foam or something around it to kind of lessen the rumble sound but it's not super loud um but it's just noticeable as you get closer to it so um yes so that's what i had to tell you and i hope you all enjoyed tell me your hobbies because i i think we should share we're friends we're youtube friends