found a stone today. should I polish it? PIC!

[DaWhim]

I went to this place for picnic today. pic

it has a beach with all rocks, I think this cool rock. pic

so should I keep it like this or polish it? I need to know how to polish it too. sandpaper?

 

[Jon855]

Polish it if ur gonna give it to a girl... if not, toss it back and stop stealing rocks from public parks.

 

[sswingle]

Wheres the poll?

 

[Tylanner]

you found a pink diamond?

 

[Zim Hosein]

That's pretty neat DaWhim, how would you polish it?

 

[FoBoT]

any chance you can get a larger picture? thanks

paint it red

or right a song about it

"heart shaped rock" , it'll be a hit

 

[Slacker]

Igneous FTW!

 

[DaWhim]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
any chance you can get a larger picture? thanks

paint it red

or right a song about it

"heart shaped rock" , it'll be a hit

isn't that pic pretty large?

 

[FoBoT]

no, those pics are small

but very nice
my daughter loves rocks, i saved that one for her for a wallpaper
nice sky pic too

 

[aidanjm]

keep it in its natural state

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: aidanjm
keep it in its natural state

agreed

 

[FrontlineWarrior]

you can start by polishing a knob especially with that fruity looking rock

 

[BrokenVisage]

2 no's lol.

 

[tami]

i also voted no.

 

[DaWhim]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
no, those pics are small

but very nice
my daughter loves rocks, i saved that one for her for a wallpaper
nice sky pic too

no. the pic is 2272x1704 and 1.8mb.

sorry that I can't show you the other side of the rock, it has a permanent marker on it. I will probably polish it, or unless I can get the mark off it.
when I picked up the rock, I didn't think it looked like a heart enough, so I asked my friend to draw a heart shape on it. now it looks ugly on the other side. nail polisher didn't work.

 

[imported_Snagle]

We were at a beach
Everybody had matching towels
Somebody went under a dock
And there he saw a rock
Only it wasn't a rock
...

 

[IronWing]

From the picture it looks like either diabase or quartzite (two very different kinds of rock, hard to tell from the pic). If it is diabase it will not polish up as the softer minerals will wear down more than the harder minerals so that the rock will remain pitted no matter how much it is polished. If it is quartzite then it might be possible to polish it a bit, depending on how well recrystalized the grain boundaries are. To tell the difference, use a magnifying glass to look at the rock up close. If there are black or dark mineral flecks between the grains then you probably have diabase. The overall grain texture looks more like quartzite to me but my wife leans toward diabase (yes, we're both geologists).

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Snagle
We were at a beach
Everybody had matching towels
Somebody went under a dock
And there he saw a rock
Only it wasn't a rock
...

It was a rock lobster!

Motion in the ocean
His air hose broke
Lots of trouble
Lots of bubble
He was in a jam
S'in a giant clam

Down, down

Underneath the waves
Mermaids wavin'
Wavin' to mermen
Wavin' sea fans
Sea horses sailin'
Dolphins wailin'

Red snappers snappin'
Clam shells clappin'
Muscles flexin'
Flippers flippin'

Down, down

Let's rock!

Boy's in bikinis
Girls in surfboards
Everybody's rockin'
Everybody's fruggin'

Twistin' 'round the fire
Havin' fun
Bakin' potatoes
Bakin' in the sun

Put on your noseguard
Put on the lifeguard
Pass the tanning butter

Here comes a stingray
There goes a manta-ray
In walked a jelly fish
There goes a dogfish
Chased by a catfish
In flew a sea robin
Watch out for that piranha
There goes a narwhale
HERE COMES A BIKINI WHALE!

 

[Rubycon]

How big is your tumbler?

That rock looks fairly large.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: C6FT7
How big is your tumbler?

That rock looks fairly large.

If he tumbled it, it would lose it's shape.

Keep it natural.

 

[mdchesne]

don't polish it with sandpaper, unless you use the special kind for granite or rocks. but yea, polish that baby to a shine!

 

[Rubycon]

It's quite smooth now so polishing would not deface it.

 

[brxndxn]

Originally posted by: ironwing
From the picture it looks like either diabase or quartzite (two very different kinds of rock, hard to tell from the pic). If it is diabase it will not polish up as the softer minerals will wear down more than the harder minerals so that the rock will remain pitted no matter how much it is polished. If it is quartzite then it might be possible to polish it a bit, depending on how well recrystalized the grain boundaries are. To tell the difference, use a magnifying glass to look at the rock up close. If there are black or dark mineral flecks between the grains then you probably have diabase. The overall grain texture looks more like quartzite to me but my wife leans toward diabase (yes, we're both geologists).

geologists.. hahah.. NERDS!

oh wait.. this is ATOT.. sorry for the compliment

 

[AdamSnow]

I dunno... but that looks a lot like Toronto in the background

Edit : And that's what the weather looked like today as well around here...

 

[RaDragon]

I'm with mdchesne on this one; I don't think that sandpaper will do the trick. Then again, I haven't polished stones before. I've polished some metals and acrylic -- but no stones...

[ e d i t ]

But yah, polish it!