Polishing Gemstones with Thumler's 15 Pound Tumbler 

In the 70's, brother got a Tumbler Kit for Christmas and came with rocks. We did it and he still has some of them still at 60 yrs old. Oh the memories.

this is so cute! It reminds me of my 9th grade english teacher. she was gifted a tumbler, and on the last day of school she gifted us all little stones she tumbled herself. I still have mine ❤️

Best wife and husband passion for life. Tnx for sharing

It's wonderful to have a partner who's as passionate about your hobby as you are. I love your video it was so informative and pleasant to watch. 😊

"I need to get some more water", "There's some on the floor". That's when the fight started. lol

I never thought I'd sit through a 20 minute video on rock tumbling but I was literally excited for each reveal. Thank you for sharing this and thank you for the advice on the ivory soap. I was thinking of getting a tumbler "some day"... After this video, I am getting one today!

What a sweet couple just enjoying life! This was so nice to watch!

If y'all wondering, the iridescent rainbow ones are called Labradorite.

I love watching people do what they have a passion for.

It's not recommended to tumble different types of stones together due to the vastly different levels of mohs hardness. For example if you tumble corundum like those rubies you tossed in they will abrade the softer stones badly while the rubies will take a lower level of polish. By the final polish the harder stones will continue scratching the softer stones and the polish won't be consistent. Great video quality otherwise and happy rockhounding.

Your housing block will be sooo happy to hear this tumbling 24/7 !

The blue and purple stones are so damn pretty

Roses are red, Violets are blue, This was on my recommended, Was it on yours too?

Poor girl shes trying so hard not to break those nails, i feel your pain debbie

My 3 and 5 yo absolutely loved watching this. thank you

I like how apparent it is that these two love each other and love having little adventures. You can hear it in their voices how much they still love one another.

the enthusiasm you have for this is contagious. great job man!

Whew! The way Mark was talkin to Debbie, when she was loading the tumbler, I thought this was gonna be a 4 week video! I love that Mark closed up the tumbler and when it leaked, it became "we didn't close it correctly".

Now this is what I would consider fun. I need a Gem of a man to spend the rest of my years doing things like this. Hugzz, Peace and Love. Thanks for sharing you two are such Lovelies. 🤗

This is something I will have to do soon. A friend of mine gave me 8 five gallon buckets full of raw gems , stones , and petrified wood from Washington state and then brought all the the way to the other side of the country before giving it to me.

No clue why this was recommended to me, but glad it was.. U guys are great! Keep living your best lives! So happy for u guys that u seem so happy and in love.. This video made my night!

As a Jewellery designer, just passing on some info, you really shouldn't tumble different stones... by doing it that way you will reduce some of the softer stones to beads as they are slammed into the denser stones.

Stone Soup was one of my favorite books as a kid :3 So happy my grandfather had this hobby!

Thank you for showing me how to fall in love with a hobby again. You two would be great friends to have. May you live your best lives!

Love the Amethyst and the Turqoise. Very lovely.

“This is just ivory soap that Debbie took to the blender.” “Food Processor.” 🤣 You guys are too cute.

I must say I What I love the most of thos video is the way you treat each other, what a joy to whatch this . God bless you

Back in the 1970's when I was in middle school, I got a small rock tumbler for Christmas. It ran continuously day and night for weeks in my bedroom. I changed the grinding medium and water every week or so. It was a long process but it worked. I only used it the one time period. The rocks came with the grinder and I never tried it again after that. I guess at the time it was too expensive to keep doing it, or maybe too drawn-out of a process, or whatever. And I never knew what to do with the rocks afterwards, other than look at them. There were little mounts included for jewelry, but I didn't care about any of that. But, it was pretty cool at the same time.

I'm getting me a rock tumbler. I love doing stuff like this. I like it! 👍

This is what makes RU-vid so great. I didn't know shit from shinola about rock tumbling but by God I just learned something new I didn't know earlier today. Keep up the great work, you two are doing it right! ;)

Glad I’m not the only one who gets excited by rocks

This is like everyone's first tumble. We mix all of them together and think the whole process is going to take a month. Then we start tumbling and we realize it's going to take months to have perfectly polished rocks. I gave up rock tumbling after it took 8 months to polish my first batch. Not to mention the amount of rocks that totally disappear.

First you tell her load them in there and the tell her hot to break them, then you pour them into the strainer several times and tumble them for over a month. Dude you are all over the charts. Let her do her thing, she wants to have fun to. The rocks turned out awesome!!

You should make like a river themed epoxy table or some type of epoxy art with your gem stones

THANK YOU BOTH FOR SHARING THIS EXCELLENT VIDEO~ I FOUND IT QUITE INTERESTING AND I REALLY ENJOYED WATCHING IT! I've wanted a Tumbler for the Longest Time, but I had No Idea how much time was involved~ but it looks like it's Worth It! There's AN AMAZON SELLER WHO'S GOT 1 LB OF ROUGH FLOURITE PIECES FOR $14.99, And I thought it would be SO COOL TO TUMBLE THEM... I LOVE FLOURITE! I can see a number of the stones You've Kreated being wire~wrapped and used as Pendants for some Gorgeous Necklaces... smaller ones for Bracelets AND ANKLETS! OMG, CAN I COME OVER AND MAKE JEWELRY WITH YOU?!😆 Well, y'all got Me hooked on your channel, SO KEEP HAVING FUN~ I'M SO JEALOUS OF YOU GUYS & I 💞YOUR PUPPERS~ I'll Be Back Soon!

His wife is just wonderful - so enthusiastic - she's fun. and he's so into the whole thing. they're great together. and beautiful rocks! thanks :)

I have the same tumbler. It's also great for making sea glass.

I love watching for them they are so cute together❤️❤️

Such a great video. Thank u for showing step by step. The couple banter was the cherry on top 💜

Really enjoyed your review of the equipment, the commentary about where you found the stones, but I really enjoyed the kind way you two spoke to each other. It was a joy to hear you each share tidbits, and make sure to point out oddities to each other.

Thank you for the best 22:21 minutes of my life. I enjoyed this video very very much.

You two are absolutely adorable together!! And obviously love going out and having adventures, and then coming home and playing with with treasures you find. I'd love to have such a fun partnership. *Goals!!*

I was mesmerized! The rocks turned out beautiful! Good work! Thank you for sharing.

You two seem very pleasant. It was a pleasure sharing in your hobby.

I have loved rocks since I was a child. (Now pushing 50 with a very short stick!) I have collected so many rocks in my lifetime, and would love to have a tumbler like that. Your rocks turned out beautifully! I have young nephews who share my interest in rocks, so I may FINALLY buy a tumbler 😍 Thanks for sharing the vid, I subscribed.

you can always save your slurry... keep the grits separate ... store them an reuse them.. even tho they loose some of their cutting ability they still work wonderfully and saves a lot of money in the end .. use them till they loose its ability to cut and smooth the stones... FYI....

"Load them in there Debbie. This isn't rock show and tell". I loved this video, such friendly guys. I felt like I was right there with them.

Oh my goodness, this video took me back to around 1965 and visiting my aunt and uncle in Winona, Minnesota. We would go every year for our family reunion and fill up this park with relatives, food, horseshoes, and fun. When our car pulled in my parents would unpack all the food and I ran down to the old shed, which looked like it could fall over any minute, where I would find my uncle Cecil inspecting all the stones he had tumbling in a tire for weeks. The Mississippi river ran alongside their property so there was an endless supply of gems to tumble and my Uncle would always let me pick out 4 or 5 beauties for my collection; good times, yea.

I love the energy this video radiates, it makes me so happy :')

You two sound like me and my hubby doing a project together! Fun times!! I had a smaller tumbler when I was a teen and if you need to you can rinse the coarse step and put it back with some fresh and let it go longer to make the stones rounder if you like!

I truly appreciated this video. I am blessed that my entire family loves to rockhound. We just brought up a rock tumber we have had for years and are actually doing this. I have always just kept raw stones. I am tumbling emerald, jasper, quartz, and amethyst for the first time. We were worried about the moh's scale but yours turned out fabulous. This is just a hobby for us, so I am very excited to see our stones after week 1. THANK YOU for sharing!!!!

My mom had a little tumbler years ago. We did some small rocks that turned out beautiful. Its so much fun tumbling. Thanks for sharing.

In case none of you remember: Don't wash the grounded up material down your drain!

You should make an ASMR video with these gemstones. The sound is soothing.

This reminds me of the tumbler my mom bought me when we were kids. Lots of fun.

You absolutely rocked it

Y'all are adorable. ROCK ON!!!

Awesome 👏🏼 Thank you for sharing this. I’m feeling drawn to crystals and gemstones. Spiritually stoned for the win. Namaste Knuckles 🙏🏼☮️

I wanted a small hobby tumbler when I was a kid. I just love polished stones.

I love this. I tumbled stones too. My family laughs at me. But I'm happy with doing it

Ha, he got *_stoned!_* Happy 420!

I love how wholesome this is ❤️

This is literally the cutest thing ive ever seen. I love that they share this hobby together! I want my future husband and I to spend time like this too 🥰

Outstanding. I have four, 3lbs tumblers. I want the 15lbs tumbler cause many say they polish much faster than the smaller tumblers. I start my first batch 6 weeks ago and I’m still on the first stage. Before moving to the 2nd stage iim spending more time on the first stage, cause those with more experience say spend more time on 1st stage and you’ll be much happier with the end results. Clearly yours are amazing. Absolutely beautiful end results.

You started with 10 pounds. Do you know the final weight when you were done?

So this was on my suggestion page. I didn't see the title just the thumbnail. I thought it was a bowl of lucky charms marshmallows. Update. I just finished the video, happy I stuck with it.

You two have the greatest interactions and sound like a helluva lot of fun. Wonderful, two thumbs up. Gorgeous stones too!

This brought back a lot of memories because my father collected stones & went to rock shows all around the Texas panhandle. He even made his own little 'mini' tumbler using a simple motor & baby food jar. Thank you so much for sharing!

This is so wholesome honestly i wanna have this life :,)

This couple reminds me of the swingers from Portlandia

Those rocks are just beautiful. Thank you for the video.

Those aqua/turquoise peace's are STUNNING!!!

This was absolutely awesome to watch and you are both great!!

I'm 20 seconds in, and I have to say. I love your energy dude. Keep up the good work.

There’s another two dimensions of joy waiting when you look through them in light, you will be the first to see what you see AND then look through them with ultra violet light and pow. Great vid, really enjoyed both of your delighted noises. X

Thanks for making this video! I am 56 and when I was 13yrs. old a friend of mine had a Rock Tumbler it was a little one from what I can remember anyway he use to smooth his Rocks using it but I had no idea until now that it took him that long to make them smooth. My friend was 10yrs. old at the time so not all kids have no patience lol.

Your first grind is for shaping. If you want more consistent jewelry grade product before you run first grind you can pre-shape your stones on grinder. Don't get them too hot when grinding.

The takeaway: God help you if you get that stuff down your drain!

i love sea , i have too many hours with stones from sea in my life and never saw them so nice and colorful like this.. wow amazing

These people have a definite "groovy" vibe going on. It's all about the rocks baby. Peace love and gem stones man, keep on truckin'.

Complains of possibly chipping stone from pouring them in, runs hard stones with soft stones in a tumbler anyway. :P

Wow, they look amazing!! My jaw dropped

Beautiful video so peaceful 😊

Man! All sorts of treasures! Love the chevron amethyst and the labradorite

So many mean/rude comments, not sure why, we can't all know everything, choose kindness people. Also if you think him telling her to be carefull is mean you clearely aint married, lol Great video! I love gemstones and rocks and had never seen this process before, i have however carried rocks home with me from everywhere my entire life so i have plenty to tumble! Maybe one day :)

the petrified wood is actually lions main. similar to tigers eyes.

I remember something like this back in the 70s from a guy from England. Great memories.

My mom bought me a rock tumbler when i was young ..i enjoyed it a lot ...rock tumblers have come a long ways from the old model i used

"Oh no, don't dump them into the tumbler, "they're fragile"?? You are TUMBLING them, they aren't that fragile!

Wow, I just started "tumbling", 1st round, yesterday. This has made me really really excited. I can't wait, I can't wait!! ARE WE THERE YET? Wish my 4/5 weeks went as fast as the video did...😖...I am soooo excited. Did I say, I CAN'T WAIT...? But I have to...! New sub here. TFS....I CAN'T WAIT!!!!

Thanks for your video, I love rocks, enjoyed seeing the rocks change after each stage. I also liked the playfulness you both have with each other, and for life. Cheers from Australia

finding new stones is the best park of walking my dog

Stone soup is gonna be very tough and crunch xx

RU-vid be like...."do you like rocks?" kewl, but why is it recommended.

They’re goals

i love how excited he is

"This ain't rock show and tell" 😂

using normal beach sand you can turn also glass shards into round pebbles

*You two are Rockstars*

Wow! I did not expect those small ones to make it through!