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Check back here soon as we announce our goals for 2008 and help us ring in the new year!

I received my commerical tumbler a few weeks back and decided to finish up some of the barrels I had running on the old Chicago Electric tumblers that were moving at a snails pace. I broke down and bought a commerical tumbler because it was not worth all the time and agrevation of replacing the belts constantly on the Chicago Electric tumblers. Not to mention, the parts that actually turn the rods in the tumbler keep breaking to the point I needed to buy a new tumbler. So I purchased this commerical tumbler and I was impressed. I combined a bunch of stones that needed the final polish as my Cape May Diamonds came out with a frosty coating on them and were not clear. It was only a weeks time and the stones came out shiner than I expected. There are stones that I have never seen take a polish that have shined up and are absolutely stunning. I combined some bigger rocks and there was some damage to a bunch of rocks, but all in all the batch has to be one of the nicest that I have done. The rocks that are damaged will just go back into the tumbler and go the full cycle with the other rocks. I think the reason for the damage is that I combined 3 of the Chicago Electric barrels into this one gallon barrel and these rocks never were tumbled together before.

In this batch I have a handful of gorgeous Cape May Diamonds that will be made into pendants in the weeks to come…hoping in time for Christmas!