How to Polish Rocks with a Rotary Tumbler and Plastic Media

In this in-depth tutorial, I'll teach you to use a rotary tumbler with plastic media to polish rocks. I'm tumbling carnelians in this batch.

This is my third favorite method of tumbling. My favorite and second favorite methods are shown in these videos. I almost always start my rocks in a rotary tumbler and finish them up in a Lot-O vibratory tumbler.
Rotary tumbler followed by vibratory tumbler:    • Tumbling Crazy Lace Agate - A Tutorial  
Rotary with ceramics:    • Rock Tumbling Tutorial for Rotary Tum...  

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0:00 Coarse Stage
18:41 220 stage
21:48 500 Stage
27:00 Polish Stage
30:23 Finished Rocks
37:10 Slideshow of Polished Rocks

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