As you can imagine, tumbling stones while RVing can be challenging at best. While camped here in the beautiful Sonoran Desert, I’ve been working on a batch of rounded stones and tumbled cabochons. The cabochons are stones that I’ve precut into shapes with my saw and then run through my QT12 tumbler. With care, they turn out nicely with a natural flair. Then, I attach a bail using lapidary epoxy and they go into my box of “Cheapo Pendants” (as many of you know I affectionately call them). My assortment was getting low and in need of some color.
Yesterday, I finished a batch that I’ve been running for the past two months.
Half were rounded stones that I’ve picked up on my travels, gifts from friends, or purchased.
The other half consisted of tumble cabs to become future pendants for my “Cheapo Pendant” box.
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| Australian Rhodonite |
Here are some pictures of tumbled stone vignettes… please enjoy.
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| Sedimentary Rock from White Sulfur Springs, MT |
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| Mookaite from Australia |
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| Unknown Jasper |
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| A colorful Flint |
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| Serape Crazy Lace from Mexico |
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| Chrysoprase |
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| Unknown |
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| Unknown Jasper |
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| Burro Creek (left) and a beautiful Unknown Agate |
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| Brown and Blue Tiger Eye |
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| Unknown Jasper |
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| Unknown Jasper |
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| Jasper/Agate |
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| Porcelain Jasper from Utah |
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| Beautiful Unknown |
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| Brown and white Agate with Druzy Pocket |
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| Fancy Bloodstone |
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| Colorful Quartz and Hematite |
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| Mozarkite from Missouri |
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| Zebra Crazy Lace from Mexico |
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| Brenda AZ Jasper |
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| Golden Jasper/Agate |
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| Unknown Jasper/Agate |
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| Red Jasper |
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| Burro Creek Agate from Wickenburg, AZ |
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| Australian Rhodonite |
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| Picture Jasper |
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| Various tumble cabochons |
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| Rare Blue Montana Agate |
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| Orbicular Jasper |
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| Jasper |
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| A beautiful Botswana Agate |
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| A beautiful Jasper/Agate showing good fortification |
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| Green Jasper |
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| The orbs in this stone are actually Chrinoid Fossils |
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| An incredibly beautiful Crazy Lace |