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Cool side by side of the same bottle. One has been tumbled inside and out to a polish. The second has only been tumbled with 1200 grit on inside to get rid of mineral buildup. Pretty cool how they differ! Theo H Greb Galveston Texas.
 

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Another cool one from Galveston. A beautiful color on this one. CF Marschner
 

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It'll work for the insides of bottles. If you find a big enough printer, you could use a length of PVC/ABS (capped) and do inside and outside (same time).

Printers are easy to come by and often cheap or free! It's pretty easy to make one too.
 

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An interesting follow up to my previous Theo H Greb post. I went ahead and put the polish on the bottle on the right. Pretty cool how tumbling with polish takes it to that next level of shine.
 

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A WOG hutch from Galveston. Tumbled for someone as part of a trade.
 

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Before and after of a Galveston Mignon hutch
 

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Ok, I’m in the right place. I need advice and possibly a shopping list. This keeps happening, where I tumble bottles for like 3 days with half the volume in copper, 1-2 tbs brown fused oxide (1200)- either from what I ordered and had on hand or the more white stuff listed as brown fused oxide 1200. Then I end up with a frosty mess like these. What do I do next?
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Here's my opinion & what I have figured out. I know others opinions will vary. The 1200 you use is a course Cutter, after using the Course Cutter you then have to switch to a fine Polish, like aluminum Oxide 1800 grit or finer. Use this for 3 or 4 days & your Bottles should lose the foggy/frosty beach glass look & shine up. BUT, I've been told by many different People many Years ago & even in here recently that you can just keep going with the 1200 or 1500 grit course cutter for another 3 days & this will eventually over time break down into a finer mixture more like a finer polish. I tried this once & it did not work for me, I pretty much ended up with a embossed Bottle turned into a ruined Slick. Luckily it was just a common cheap Bottle used as a experiment. The experiment failed in my opinion. BUT, others have said they have had great success with going 6 days with courser cutter but if you do that starting off with 1500 would probably be better then 1200. Just my opinion. LEON.
 
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Here's my opinion & what I have figured out. I know others opinions will vary. The 1200 you use is a course Cutter, after using the Course Cutter you then have to switch to a fine Polish, like aluminum Oxide 1800 grit or finer. Use this for 3 or 4 days & your Bottles should lose the foggy/frosty beach glass look & shine up. BUT, I've been told by many different People many Years ago & even in here recently that you can just keep going with the 1200 or 1500 grit course cutter for another 3 days & this will eventually over time break down into a finer mixture more like a finer polish. I tried this once & it did not work for me, I pretty much ended up with a embossed Bottle turned into a ruined Slick. Luckily it was just a common cheap Bottle used as a experiment. The experiment failed in my opinion. BUT, others have said they have had great success with going 6 days with courser cutter but if you do that starting off with 1500 would probably be better then 1200. Just my opinion. LEON.
Just asking, it seems like tumbling bottles is time consuming and somewhat expensive. In general, is tumbling done up the value? Patena usually ups the value,
 

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Just asking, it seems like tumbling bottles is time consuming and somewhat expensive. In general, is tumbling done up the value? Patena usually ups the value,
Depends, Some like Patina some don't, some like them tumbled clean & some don't. All I know is this, if I got a Rare Bottle but it has sick glass, stained crusty dirty & looks ugly (some would call this Patina) & I got the exact same bottle Tumbled but looking mint & like knew I'd get $30 for the sick ugly stained dirty Bottle & $300 for the clean Mint looking Bottle. Just a example, others opinions may vary, I mean definately will vary. LEON.
 

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