💎 Rock Tumbling PETRIFIED WOOD 💎 From Start to Finish! | Rotary Rock Tumbling Tips & Techniques

[@ReikiGemWellness]

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

[@Azazelcobb]

Nice job👍😎 I recently found some petrified wood that was in some sort of very old cobblestone structure. There is some type of mortar or something similar, surrounding some of the pieces, but along with the petrified wood there are crystals growing out of the same matrix! So would you try to shape the mortar matrix and keep them together or attempt to separate the wood and the crystals from the matrix? Nice job on the tumbling and the video 👍😎 I subbed ✨

[@ROCKINWHEELERS]

We just came across your video, a Blast From The Past. So we Subscribed to your KZbin channel. We’re Disabled Seniors and OUR 47yr Old Son became recent Rockhounds and Lapidary. We just RockHound around our neighborhood with our electric wheelchairs and where able to trek. Just to get ready is an adventure in itself-hehehe. Rosie My BLESSED WIFE OF 49yrs wanted to Tumble Rocks. And so we’re doing it and on our first Rock Tumbling Adventure and on the 2nd stage. MANY BLESSINGS UPON YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!!!

[@dana161616161616]

Shannon, I very much appreciate your videos and all the work you've put into learning how to tumble rocks. I have only been tumbling rocks for about 3 months now, but I have seven 3 lb barrels running. I consult your videos regularly and I really appreciate the service you are doing for rock tumbling newbies out here like myself. Because of you my results have been outstanding. I have been following your advice to a tee. Thanks, Dana Harris

[@ReikiGemWellness]

You are so welcome! I am so, so glad that you find these useful! 💖👍👍

[@Bigfoot903Outdoors]

You are such a beautiful lady 💕 and I can almost feel the positivity flowing through your videos.

[@loueckert4970]

Wow that turned out really great. Amazing.

[@buckbaccus1095]

Shannon I so enjoy the tumbling videos . You will continue wont you? Your love of tumbling is contagious. I just started tumbling and joined your class. Please continue. It helped me through covid and still relaxes me now. Linda

[@ReikiGemWellness]

I will get back to it for sure - it's my favorite hobby! Unfortunately, time is in short supply these days ☹ Thank you for your supportive words!

[@stephaniedavis9404]

Did the rocks absorb the water?

[@ROCKINWHEELERS]

An outstanding Tutorial.

[@LTGuitar51]

Excellent!! Valuable information

[@timcarver5492]

Hi Shannon, great job on the tumble. I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to dig about 20 pounds of Rainbow petrified wood in Holbrook Az. I just finished 9 weeks of tumbling and it turned out amazing. I followed a schedule very similar to yours.

[@ReikiGemWellness]

Wow! That's a really great find - and tumbling stones you collected yourself is extra satisfying! 👍👍

[@paulcarder8032]

Love your Petrified Wood. It's one of my favorites too. The colorful Arizona variety. Have you ever worked any Yellowstone River Petrified Wood? It's one of the most "wood" looking, just like driftwood.

[@ReikiGemWellness]

Not yet, but now that I know how lovely petrified wood is I am going to look for different varieties. I'll add Yellowstone River to my list 💖😃

[@justind9019]

The patience you must have to wait that long for the finished product! I’m about to invest in my first tumbler. Any recommendations? I have 6 five gallon buckets full of P wood waiting on me, not including roughly 500 lbs of larger logs that are currently decorating my mothers back patio! I want to get lapidary equipment and start cutting and polishing :) I enjoyed watching the pieces transform through the stages and seeing the different grains and colors come out 👍

[@ronniea.4830]

Thank you for this tutorial, I have some petrified wood at home but all different sizes, do you recommend splitting the really large ones. Also do you use tumbling media on all stages of tumbling?

[@martinosborn3171]

Invest in an industrial vibratory tumbler and tumble in a fraction of the time. I would recommend the Thumler’s UV-18 industrial version (bowl has blue stripe)

[@romanfedrich6967]

Shannon, is Australian coarse grit the same as your course grit?

[@redhotyummybrownie2]

My dad gave me a huge piece of petrified wood and was thinking of making it into a necklace but i want the center stone to be heart shaped, do i have to get a diamond blade for that?

[@jackstanford7635]

You might stop the drying out by pre soaking the petrified wood. It will soak up a lot sometimes.

[@stuartjenkins4380]

Wow, it turned out beautiful! So, I've only been tumbling for a few months (only completed 2 batches) and I had the missing water thing happen to me. I'd remembered you mentioning on a video not to long ago. After thinking long and hard about it the only real answer is...we forgot to add water. There's just no way that the water evaporated without a trace...there would be some sort of evidence of it. Keep up the good work!

[@ReikiGemWellness]

I agree, it really has to be the reason. I can't think of any other. Oops! 😆😆

[@sportsfan3168]

Hey Shannon I’m curious to know have you ever seen blue petrified wood it’s not very dark in color it is almost like a whitish blue if that makes sense apparently it’s not that common in the United States I’d like to get your knowledge on this if possible

[@ReikiGemWellness]

I have not personally seen blue, but the colors come from the minerals in the Earth that it absorbs. Mostly here in the US I see red, orange, brown and grey 👍

[@The_Lonely_Texas_Pagan]

A little trivia back at you, Texas state stone is petrified palm wood.

[@ReikiGemWellness]

Yes, it is! 🙌😀🙌 My State Stone!

[@letsgogurudev]

I have big pieces of rough petrified wood, I wanted it to tumble. Can you say it in kg terms the recipe.

[@monicawarden3581]

Are the little white rocks used as filler? What are those?

[@ReikiGemWellness]

Yes, the ceramic media are used as a cushion and filler as the main stones get smaller and smaller during the tumbling process. 👍

[@kittyterula]

So it seems like the biggest issue I can address myself having is not leaving my stones in coarse grit long enough... I guess I'm just too in love with the weirder shapes. But I realise now that I keep leaving them too rough before I put them in medium I guess. I'm always worried about losing too much mass, I'm a newbie haha

[@steveupton7996]

I've had a piece of petrified wood as big as my fist for 35 years . I've always been under the influence it was a negative thing . What are the positives or negatives of possessing this ?

[@ReikiGemWellness]

I have a very on that very topic here 👉 kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4uncmNubM-WnMk 🙏🙏

[@divermike8943]

I'm intrigued by the "evaporated water" problem. I have three guesses. 1) You have some kind of chemical reaction happening that is generating heat and the water is evaporating from that. But that would involve at least a leak of water vapor. 2) You actually do have a very slow leak that is hard to detect as the leaked water evaporates quickly and leaves no puddle. 3)Water is being absorbed by something. Highly unlikely I think.

[@chadwest4933]

why use ceramic media on stage i?

[@ReikiGemWellness]

This is an older video so I can't quite recall, but one reason is if you don't have enough rough to fill the barrel you fill up that extra space with ceramic media.

[@alczek]

You mentioned dry polishing, what is that? Look forward to seeing your other videos, we just joined.

[@xaviertheory]

Can I use fresh wood pieces?

[@EssentialSoap]

I hope this is a (how too) not a (show off) video. I would like to learn

[@ReikiGemWellness]

These videos are designed for those who know the basics of rock tumbling and want tips on tumbling specific stones. For an in-depth rock tumbling tutorial, please see the following online course: crystal-wisdom.com/courses/rock-tumbling-101/

[@douglassuppes5394]

Petrified wood is a semi precious gem. Mineral replacing the organic material over 10'sk yrs. It's not actually wood anymore

[@sarajohnson6855]

Pretty rocks go click click