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2013-07-13, 2:53pm
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Sea Glass look in tumbler
What grit would I use to get broken glass - beer, wine bottles to get the look of sea glass? How long would I need to tumble?
I just got my tumbler and 1000 grit works great on my beads in a few hours.
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2013-07-13, 3:47pm
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I just use sand and tumble constantly for a few days. I didn't have any special tumbling media and didn't want to buy any so I grabbed some sand out of the kids sandbox! Works great!
I'd say use what you have and just check it every couple hours until you get the look you want.
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2013-07-13, 5:36pm
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Using a vibrator tumbler with SC 500 and it takes 2 hours or less for boro beads to achieve a faux sea glass look.
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2013-07-13, 6:05pm
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I'm with Kristin and use playground sand. I do a lot of sandblasting so when my media starts getting old I throw some in the mix. I find if you want to speed things up in a tumbler you need to add sacrificial pieces, by this I mean bigger pieces that will agitate the mixture quicker. For the bigger pieces I use broken glass bottles and rocks, It does sped things up a lot.
Bob
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2013-07-13, 6:41pm
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1000 grit silicon carbide and a few hours in the tumbler.
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2013-07-14, 3:57am
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Thanks guys! I'm excited to experiment with all the info!
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