Tumbling Before and After photos

[UncleBruce]

Here’s a couple I purchased and cleaned from the St. Louis show

You must have popped them into the cleaner as soon as you got home from St. Louis. Nice job.

 

[webe992]

Wootan Wells Texas

 

[Wildcat wrangler]

THANK YOU!!!! Your the boss, Leon. I’m the hands, feet & bux, k? So let’s fix some stuff…. (

From 3000 miles away.) Here are a few of my victims. Of course, I have beat to hell bottles,Leon! I live with a pack of free-range servals. They love me and my stuff- A LOT. (the nice bottles are behind glass or in boxes) but bottles are getting beat to hell,just trying to learn this! I’ve done unspeakable things to some of these bottles! (Ever tumble a bottle in a peanut butter jar?) Kat >^..^<


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[Wildcat wrangler]

If you polished for 6 days with the Aluminum Oxide you showed in Pic you should be fine. Heres what you do next, Forget the Silicone Carbide. Thats only good for heavy duty cleaning in my opinion & not neccessary on most Bottles, Unless all your Bottles are Extremely sick & Beat to Hell, Then maybe. For your next Bottle that aint to Beat or Rough just tumble for 6 days in Aluminum Oxide only. Then rinse the Black Residue off with Diluted Mauratic Acid. Let me know what happens????????? LEON.

Ok…. I’ve got to be doing something wrong. That’s 1/2 filled both inside and out with copper- basic stuff sent via jar dr- w/2 tbs ( approximately) of jar dr fine AO polish and then h2o up to 1-2” above copper? I have the acid but didn’t soak because most look like no shine beneath the black. The GO Blake’s rye & bour is the only1 shiny nuff to soak and I think it went in about like this? What am I doing wrong?!

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[Merle]

Ok…. I’ve got to be doing something wrong. That’s 1/2 filled both inside and out with copper- basic stuff sent via jar dr- w/2 tbs ( approximately) of jar dr fine AO polish and then h2o up to 1-2” above copper? I have the acid but didn’t soak because most look like no shine beneath the black. The GO Blake’s rye & bour is the only1 shiny nuff to soak and I think it went in about like this? What am I doing wrong?!

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What compound are you using? That’s what my bottles look like after I run the 1200. I’ve been sticking to the 1500 and running for 5 days and everything is coming out fine on my end

 

[hemihampton]

Ok…. I’ve got to be doing something wrong. That’s 1/2 filled both inside and out with copper- basic stuff sent via jar dr- w/2 tbs ( approximately) of jar dr fine AO polish and then h2o up to 1-2” above copper? I have the acid but didn’t soak because most look like no shine beneath the black. The GO Blake’s rye & bour is the only1 shiny nuff to soak and I think it went in about like this? What am I doing wrong?!

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did you try a virgin non tumbled bottle? OK, I'm going to get complicated here. When you use course compounds you gotta or should move to finer in steps. For example I'm going to exaggerate here to get my point across. Lets say you tumble a Bottle in course 600 grit cutter. You then don't jump to 2000 grit fine polish. to much of a jump, gotta go in gradual steps. for example if you start with 1200 grit you should then go to 1500 grit for a few days then go to polish. OR, Like I said before, Just go with fine Polish from the start & forget the course cutter 1200 which will Frost your glass & not needed on mildly beat Bottles, only extremely beat Bottles. Another thing, I'm not sure how other people do it but I fill my Bottles 3/4 full with Copper inside & out & then roughly 2 teaspoons, maybe tablespoons, I just guess with a regular spoon & then fill to top with Water. So 3/4 Copper & 1/4 Water. Just my opinion, I'm sure others will vary. LEON.

 

[hemihampton]

Did you buy a Jar Doctor Tumbler or Professional Tumbler or still using some home made Cave Man Contraption?

 

[Wildcat wrangler]

Did you buy a Jar Doctor Tumbler or Professional Tumbler or still using some home made Cave Man Contraption?

did you try a virgin non tumbled bottle? OK, I'm going to get complicated here. When you use course compounds you gotta or should move to finer in steps. For example I'm going to exaggerate here to get my point across. Lets say you tumble a Bottle in course 600 grit cutter. You then don't jump to 2000 grit fine polish. to much of a jump, gotta go in gradual steps. for example if you start with 1200 grit you should then go to 1500 grit for a few days then go to polish. OR, Like I said before, Just go with fine Polish from the start & forget the course cutter 1200 which will Frost your glass & not needed on mildly beat Bottles, only extremely beat Bottles. Another thing, I'm not sure how other people do it but I fill my Bottles 3/4 full with Copper inside & out & then roughly 2 teaspoons, maybe tablespoons, I just guess with a regular spoon & then fill to top with Water. So 3/4 Copper & 1/4 Water. Just my opinion, I'm sure others will vary. LEON.

Ummmmmm…. Cave woman contraption!

No…. Not really, but it worked better than “the beast”, a once new machine (the biggest jar Dr. Machine he sells). It does NOT look new! And I have not tumbled any that I would call satisfactory. Maybe that tiny Rene’s magic oil one, but that’s only because I’m ok with a little patina on that. I’ve used this to the point of-spills from it many times- did u see how much AO is left in,that 2 lb jar that was full?

All that went into tumbling these beautiful bottles here…. Can u believe it?

Stunning! Ok, then I will start w/a virgin bottle, but these were all virgin bottles before the unspeakable happened to them! And those 2

smallest bottles have cracks in their necks. So between the hairy spotted kids and I, well more bottles have been broken, than ever with anything else. Good thing I have 3 kittens sold! G O Blake’s rye n Bour is pretty clear, so can we finish that , and I have a lot of bottles we could run. But that polishing AO is how I got in this boat. I need to buy some other grits of compound. I’m about ready to ask Dr. Wayne- “I took your advise for tumbling and here we are. What next? And are you going to give me a discount on the replacement motor I just wore out, breaking bottles? Or a parade or a calendar- maybe a refrigerator magnet- because that has to be a record! Wear out a machine to get no bottles cleaned!” Lol! The good thing has been that it’s like going to the gym. That copper is heavy! And when I spill (find something your good at!) it doesn’t stick to the magnet very well, like the steel pins did. That part was nice. THANK YOU!
Kat &gt;^..^&lt;



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[hemihampton]

I have one Question, Lets see a pic of the Tumbler you are using? LEON.

 

[Wildcat wrangler]

I have one Question, Lets see a pic of the Tumbler you are using? LEON.

It doesn’t look like this anymore! I guess I’m lucky to have enough room in THAT garage to fit this but where he stuck me? The darkest nastiest ickiest spot out there with all his crap overhead, ready to just take me out! I’d show you, but he would kill me! Or t

Take my parking space for this. It’s unreal out there!



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Ok…. YOU are in my mess confidence! I would show u any spot in my home, no problem. All these beamers, but do u think I ever parked in the garage? I was lucky to fit my motorcycle in there. But here goes:
Not my mess. Well the tumbler is! After a bunch of spills- I have issues with the 4” cone stoppel leaking.

All this and not a clean bottle!