Homemade Large Rock Tumbler

This rock tumbler features a barrel with a stainless steel cover and 1 lb.

Homemade large rock tumbler.

Popular tumblers have a barrel loaded with abrasive grit water and rocks. It turns out manufacturing these colors in a rock tumbler is difficult as well. A homemade rock tumbler is also a creative way of making polished rocks and stones for adornments. Making your own homemade rock tumbler lets you turn seemingly ordinary stones you pick up at the beach or along a hiking trail into beautiful works of art.

Read on to know how to build one at home. You may find that the stones you pick up outside look a lot. Some tips on sourcing. All commercially available rock tumblers were just glorified toys.

Too small hard to clean far too expensive or some combination of the above. Here is a super quick project i whipped up just to see how well it would work. However the homemade tumbler does not use motors but incorporate a technology that naturally smoothens the rocks. With our handy dandy formula we can plug in some numbers and find out.

The barrel of this rock tumbler has a 1 lb. Red purple orange and aqua sea glass are all very rare to find on beaches as real sea glass. You make a 6 tumbler drum out of a empty plastic jar. For a look at the best rock tumblers that are high quality and reasonably priced read my review on these rock tumblers.

Homemade sea glass made from glass sourced from recycling bins and a rock tumbler tumbling colored glass. The cap on the barrel is made of stainless steel which significantly reduces noise and makes it incredibly durable. The tumbled stones can be displayed given as gifts etched with messages or used as craft supplies. Commercial rock tumblers have a motor that helps to rotate the tumbler.

In addition you also need to buy rock tumbling grit to get to the nice polished look you want. How quick will your tumbler drum be turning at. Building rock tumblers is a project that can help children understand the geological process of the tumbling and smoothing of rocks in water bodies. I wanted a tumbler that would take a 20 pound or so load but i did not want to pay 500 and up for something commercially made.

This rock tumbler measures 10 8 x 8 9 5 inches and weighs a total of 4 pounds. I used this for putting a stone wash on my blades after i ve acid etched them. 1725rpm x 2 x shaft 47 9 rpm or about 48 rpm the tumbler drum will be going.