@@haz0816 Step one: you must add grit for clarity, Rocks'll tumble much better than the shells you see, bear with me, take as many as you can find put them in a pile and tumble around them until they're shinier than a diamond.
Even with rocks you're supposed to tumble only rocks of similar hardness together so the harder rocks don't damage softer ones. So I have no idea what logic this is, putting much heavier and harder rocks in to damage the shells and then tumbling for 1,5 weeks straight...
I grew up at the beach and I loved finding shells that had holes in them! They made great necklace pendants. Now it makes sense that as they tumble around the ocean, that’s how those perfect holes are made!
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Dude why did you put rocks WITH the shells? Also a whole week definitely feels like too long. Although I guess my complaints make me feel slightly more motivated to pull out my rock tumbler I have but never managed to use.
Let me know if you have any success. My suspicion is you'll not see much improvement since if anything interesting happened to shells being tumbled we'd already have the shell equivalent of sea glass. But id be excited to be proved wrong.
You should have put the seashells in by themselves because putting the rocks in added something else for them to bounce off of and break more more of them probably would have turned out as actual something if you didn't throw those in there
It will work! You need the thick fragments you find at the shoreline; they often polish with crazy patterns. Do only half of step 2 and full weeks on 3&4. Make sure it’s fragments and not the entire shell
I actually saw the start of this one and was like oh those are going to end up with holes in them like my shells (I went to the beach for the first time last year and all the big shells had holes worn in them from the sand and water) and I see I was right
if you just did some shells and some ceramic tumbling tubies with the fine grit or the polish, and tumbled less than a week, more of the shells might live.
Did any of you people not take any science classes in school?? Hello, seashells tumbled become _sand_ . How do you think all that pretty white sand is formed on the Florida beaches? And the sand everywhere else?? The ocean is the world's greatest tumbler. It tumbles rocks and shells and coral, etc, all the time, which creates the sand! If you've ever been on a beach, there aren't just nice beautiful lovely shells all over, the majority are in a state of disintegration from the tumbling ocean currents, and being swept against the other shell pieces and rocks in the incoming or outgoing tide. It's how the ocean breaks down the detritus of leftovers.
I've actually learned something really important recently: hermit crabs have started using trash as shells, because everyone keeps taking the shells from the beaches. Especially in Japan. I don't think it's this style of shell they're missing, though. So, if you see a shell enclosed like this 🐚, leave it there for the hermit crabs. I wish I could remember the RU-vidr who posted that video. It's a sad sight to see. And they help remove the trash from the crabs and give them new shells.
