We polished landscape rocks and the results were surprising!

This was our first attempt at polishing rocks. We didn't really know what we were doing so we got our test rocks from parking lot landscapes and were pretty surprised by the results.

The first "roughing" stage was done in a harbor freight rotary tumbler for about two weeks using some National Geographic grit purchased on Amazon.

Step two we moved the rocks over to the Lot-O vibratory tumbler using 220 silicon carbide grit for about another week.

Step 3 was in the Lot-O using 500 grit aluminum oxide grit for another week or so and we probably could have just stopped there because the polish stage really doesn't look like it did much.

Polish stage was in the Lot-O with 8000 grit aluminum oxide polish for about 3 days.

We did a burnishing between stage 3 and the polish stage, and did another one after the polish.

The end results were interesting and gave us some ideas for what to try in our next attempts.

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