Thank you the compliment on my bottle. I have decided NOT to tumble this soda, its good enough the way it is.Beautiful bottle! I certainly would not tumble if it were mine. Looks plenty nice as is. Moreover, I'd be concerned that tumbling would remove much of the evidence of it having been attached to an iron pontil when manufactured.
Tumbled a lot of iron pontiled sodas & mineral waters and was able to keep the iron intact on the pontil without harming the bottle. There numerous was of keeping the iron intact when tumbling.
I recently got a response from a fellow member on protecting the iron. It worked really well and I will be using his method from now on most of my iron pontils.
Here is a Farland iron pontiled soda that I dug out of privy awhile ago. It was really in bad shape, but as you can see that all the iron remained intact after it was tumbled heavily.
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Beautiful bottle! I certainly would not tumble if it were mine. Looks plenty nice as is. Moreover, I'd be concerned that tumbling would remove much of the evidence of it having been attached to an iron pontil when manufactured.