Скачать или смотреть I sanded this rock by hand for 30 days (Before vs After)

WARNING: DO NOT DO THIS WITHOUT A FUNCTIONAL RESPIRATOR
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This is the very first rock I began working on. In February 2023, I heard rumors of polishing rocks with sandpaper, which caused me to consider how polished gems and stones were made prior to electricity. "If they could do it back before electricity, surely I can do it, too," I thought. So I stocked up on sandpaper and a RESPIRATOR and got to work.

Where was the footage of it?? Thanks for asking! I recorded this whole journey and intended to upload it to YouTube months ago. Unfortunately, life and storage issues got in my way. I would like to upload at least some of that footage in the future.

This rock is a quartz conglomerate, which is a sedimentary rock. It consists of quartz pebbles cemented together by clay and sand. Conglomerates were my most hated rock as a kid. I thought they were lame because they didn't have their own identity and rather, assumed the identity of their constituents. As an adult, I see things completely differently. This rock is not only visually stunning, but it represents a melting pot of sediments, where particles of all different shapes, sizes, colors, and histories are brought together in one place in time. Imagine if one quartz pebble dates back to the Jurassic Period, while others come from an older time, and others a younger. That's millions of years of history scattered about the face of the Earth, collected in one place, and frozen in time. That's beautiful to me.

Thanks to human intervention and technology, I had the wonderful opportunity to create a twist in this rock's life history. Using sandpaper, I induced relatively insane amounts of erosion on the surface of this rock. With power tools, I could've done this WAY faster. But at the time, I didn't have the Dremel 8250 that I have now.

This was a fun project and a serious workout for my forearms and grip strength. For my rock climber friends out that, I recommend sanding rocks in your free time. Thanks for the support y'all. Peace be unto you friends!

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