First Two Tumbling Results

[Hogtown Hunter]

I started with this Pat. D Coke I found in a creek. Lots of scratches and small pits all over it. 3 days in 1200 grit and 2 days in polish. It looks good but didn't quite get all the pitting in glass. Guess I should have ran two more days in the 1200? The Jacksonville soda bottle looks awesome. It was mostly just cloudy so spent 3 days in polish. I tried cleaning this one by hand and it did nothing to clear it up. It still has some scratches but i was more interested to see how tumbling would get the cloudiness out of bottle. Looks great to me.

 

[UnderMiner]

Good looking results!

 

[Sonofabottleman]

Very nice results!!!

 

[UncleBruce]

Pitting is going to be difficult to remove with a tumbler as the surface of the glass is removed. If you remove enough glass to remove the pitting, you are also going to remove embossing. You have to reach a happy medium so as not to overdo it and ruin the embossing.

 

[slickfinish]

If your tumbler is revolving at 60 rpm all you ever need to do is 1200 for 5 days turning the tube every day.I NEVER open it period. Trust me it works.

 

[Hogtown Hunter]

This post is actually from May. I've done several bottles since then. If they are cloudy/sick or have small scratches the tumbler works great. But I've had a couple that it just didn't smooth out the deeper scratches or pitting. I tumbled one for 12 days in 1200 grit and it barely did anything. The embossing was fine. It's like a need a rougher grit? If there is too much water can it effect the abrasiveness? I followed the Jar Doctor directions. When tube is turned horizontally the water should be 1/2" above the copper medium?

 

[hemihampton]

12 Days with 1200 would turn a bottle into a slick in my tumbler?

 

[Hogtown Hunter]

Something definitely isn't right then. I'm using #16 copper and 1200 grit running at 60 rpm

 

[UncleBruce]

That's a 16 pounds bottle of short cut chopped copper. Not #16 gauge. He still uses these juice type bottles. I've got a couple over 30!

 

[hemihampton]

I seem to get different results then most others & seem to use different techiniques, I've tried others advise like slickfinish's above & that just don't work for me. not sure why? Jar Doctors advise didn't work for me either? LEON.