TUMBLING TIGER'S EYE – From Start to Finish! | Rotary Rock Tumbling Process & Techniques

By admin | January 19, 2022 |

TUMBLING TIGER'S EYE – From Start to Finish! | Rotary Rock Tumbling Process & Techniques

Welcome! In this video I show you how to tumble and polish Tiger’s Eye – From Start to Finish! Interesting in working with Tiger’s Eye? I’ll show you how I did it, provide my complete timeline / recipe, and show you the end result.

Tiger’s Eye: Tumbling Experience Level = Beginner

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12 Comments

  1. Gary Letcher on January 19, 2022 at 10:57 am

    Oops, I just read more in your description…Got it. Again, Thank You.



  2. Alpha SL on January 19, 2022 at 10:58 am

    What’s this COURSE??? What do you actually do to get the shine???? Please let your viewers know about that as well.. Thanks



  3. Algert on January 19, 2022 at 11:04 am

    I like so much this stone



  4. Gary Letcher on January 19, 2022 at 11:15 am

    I’m new to rock tumbling, just on my 2nd batch. I’m curious of what kind of tumbler, and what size of barrel you are using? Your stones look rather large, and I Love it. Sweet videos too, Thank You.



  5. Crystal Wisdom with Shannon Marie on January 19, 2022 at 11:17 am

    Thank you for watching! If you have any questions, about tumbling, gemstones, or about anything in the video – please ask below, I will answer!



  6. Philip Zdz on January 19, 2022 at 11:22 am

    I was wondering when you did 3 weeks of course grit, did you put in a new batch of grit for each 1 week interval? or were you running the same initial batch of grit for the whole 3 weeks



  7. Aaron Baker on January 19, 2022 at 11:35 am

    Tigers eye is awesome but when I roughed it for one week a lot of it still came out with cracks and crevices with the grit stuck in there. I had to stick those back in for another week. I think from now on I will be less impatient on the roughing step. Tigers eye seems to be prone to cracks and crevices and the grit will stick in there and make it look dull and white. I really, really appreciate your burnishing advice. I sprayed off about 11 pounds of various agates, tigers eye and similar hardness stones and then I used dish soap and granulated sugar after just the first step of roughing for one week and I left them in there and went and did DoorDash for a day and came back and was tired so I fell asleep and when I woke up I took them out and sprayed them off and they looked like they skipped the next 2 steps and were almost at full polish. That really confused me. But yeah, there was a thin layer of fine grit that was stuck in all the micro crevices on the bottom of the barrel and I guess with the sugar it acted like a polish grit for a day. It was like 65% there for the shine factor. I’m a newbie on this so take what I say with a grain of sugar.



  8. havin fun with skunk on January 19, 2022 at 11:35 am

    Why the 5 instead of the normal 4 stages?



  9. Marlon B. on January 19, 2022 at 11:40 am

    Hi, I’m having trouble polishing blue tiger eye. It’s not polishing very well.



  10. Zairhen Binanatali on January 19, 2022 at 11:43 am

    Where I buy like this mm



  11. Joann Brown on January 19, 2022 at 11:44 am

    Hi, are those ceramic pellets , what do they do and are they reusable . Thanks



  12. John Kantar on January 19, 2022 at 11:44 am

    ive been trying to find a large polished gold tiger eye for my desk with no luck ,it seems no one wants to do this . any advice appreciated, size I would like 200 to 300mm