I used rock tumblers to make sea glass. Tumbling glass in a rock tumbler allows you to make your own sea glass in just 3-5 days.
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Шикарный метод, только бочка маленькая.
I'm collecting sea glasses from several years now, and one day I hope I'll be able to create something inspired to Tiffany technique. Super-curious to see what you will build with your pieces 🙂
love the wind farm idea, otherwise it just looks like a lot of energy and waste material to me
This calls for a huge homemade tumbler project 😀
I love the windmill rock tumbler idea. I think you need to go big with it, though, and get a water pump windmill for the extra torque.
Wonder if using a cement mixer could help scale up your process.
Careful with glass powder when unloading the tumbler. That stuff can ruin your lungs fast if it's fine enough to inhale.
a sea glass chandelier and "beaded" curtains 😃
Love the environmentally conscious approach; glass found on property, grit found on property, move from grid to off-grid energy.
I am so glad you are making sea glass at a large scale.
I am from Mendocino County, CA, where we have a rocky beach near the town Fort Bragg called Glass Beach. It is famous for its sea glass, all over the beach. Really beautiful. But years of collectors, especially recently people gathering for crafting, have reduced the amount of glass there by a huge amount. It’s really sad. When previously most everyone could visit and not feel bad leaving with a small pocket of sea glass (maybe 10 pieces), even though it’s against the rules of taking stuff from parks, now the people repeatedly visiting to gather it, or leaving with buckets, are destroying the beautiful experience for everyone.
It’s even less understandable to me than gathering shells, because sea glass can easily be manufactured at home by crafters, and it looks as authentic (or even better, if you have access to more colors) as sea glass made by the ocean.
I wonder if there’s something affordable and harmless you could add to the water to keep it from turning into sludge. Is it evaporating? Maybe a wetting agent or an oil? Then you could get the speed from using water but not the dry sludge problem?
Лучше кину в море, у нас в Украине сейчас война и в море купаться все равно нельзя, все заминировано, как раз за пару лет все сделает природа)
Слава Украине!
Героям Слава!
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I always thought using a cement mixer would work for larger batch. Never tried though.
I'm curious to know what effect sea glass has on ambient heat from heat reflection and the potential for causing wildfires when used as a landscaping material. I have no idea if it would be any different from stone.
I tumble glass a lot and it comes out beautiful! I let people know it's tumbled glass and not sea glass, they still buy it…
Wind tumbler!?!!🤯. Awesome! 🧡👊🏻🇨🇦
Sea glass looks nice. You Could ise it arond plants in large potts, you can make wall/mosaic art with it.
🇳🇴 If you use å sement mixer, you can tumble a whellbarrow in one batch…..
Can these be used for stained glass applications.
Use as an epoxy pour filler. Nice diffusion.
I saw a guy on youtube one time take a large tire, and put the media and material in the bottom of the tire and used that as a big tumbler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf8S30EOZfw Other than that you could always get a lowes plastic cement mixer. Might even consider hooking it up to a solar panel/inverter setup.