ASMR Tumbled Stones (soft spoken, stone sounds, sorting)
ASMR Tumbled Stones (soft speaking, stone sounds, sorting)
Way back in the day, in my early teens, I had a "rock tumbler" (the "Tumble Stones" tumbler by Tapco). It was an entry-level tumbler, with a cheap motor and a loud plastic barrel. I had to run it in a back room near the garage to get the noise level low enough for people to sleep at night.
In the 1970's, craft hobbies were all the rage. Rock tumblers were often marketed as a way to make your own jewelry, and indeed, the refill kit I show in this video came with little metal parts to turn small polished stones into rings, necklaces and tie clips. But I never cared about that aspect of it. I fancied myself a geologist in training, and just liked rocks, plain and simple.
I only tumbled a couple of batches of stones, sadly. The process was not only a great exercise in patience (a month from start to finish), but also a great exercise in discovery. Smoothing and polishing a stone allowed me to "see" into it, as the new glassy surface revealed many vibrant and dynamic secrets, clues that spoke to how that stone came to be.
All these years later, I still have that yellow plastic barrel, filled with polished stones. Some of these are ones that I tumbled as a kid, while others have been collected by my kids on some of our family trips together. And all these years later, a polished stone still stops me in my tracks. I guess my inner child still can resist the urge to look through that polished window, to see what there is to see.
A few videos ago, we talked about the luxury of slowing down and allowing our tired brains to focus on one simple task for a little while. Trying to better follow my own advice, I spend a little time sorting these stones by color, and looking at them closely. I hope this has the same on you as it does on me.
If you're a fan of polished stones, I'd love it if you could comment below on any stones that you can identify. If you provide time stamps, then maybe I can eventually add an index for identifying all the stones in this video!
Thanks to Beth Darlington for this first cut at a stone list! If you have any refinements to make, let me know in the comments, and I'll add your inputs here:
15:24 Agate
16:36 Agate
17:09 Sodalite
17:25 Tigers eye
20:20 could be amethyst but looks more man-made to me (beth)
20:20 could be a lab created chariote (teajoygreye)
20:20 purple goldstone (jackthebeenstock)
20:52 dyed crackle quartz
21:35 Amethyst
22:22 not sure, maybe agate or quartz
22:41 Agate
25:48 Rhodochrosite
27:21 Carnelian
27:52 orange calcite maybe?
28:56 Rose quartz
30:05 Carnelian
30:51 Haematite or Pyrite (fool's gold)
31:29 Snowflake obsidian
31:54 Agate
32:33 maybe Blood Jasper
32:56 Smoky quartz
33:30 Quartz
34:44 the next few are agate
38:49 could be agate or rhodonite
40:25 Citrine
41:39 Agate
42:22 Tigers eye
43:26 Blood Jasper and quartz
43:49 maybe moonstone or rutilated quartz
44:11 Flower Jasper (lunaflower1978)
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