Tumbling

Tumbling

Rock Tumbling is accelerating by mechanical means the process normally done by nature of founding and smoothing the stones as they are tumbled down river stream beds.

Rough Tumbling Rock

Tumbling requires the use of a tumbling machine and sometimes up to 6 weeks of processing the stones in the tumbler barrel.

Four Barrel Homemade Rock Tumbler

Tumbling can produce some fantastic looking stones.

Tumbled Agates

For more information on rock tumbling please contact the Gold Coast Lapidary Club.