Lortone Abrasive Tumbling Kit

I'm a beginner who has just completed the first step of the 4-5 step process. Great products, everything working fine. I have a tip for rinsing the rocks outside over a bucket. Assemble a jelly bag that is used in home canning. Mark the bag FOR ROCKS ONLY. Keep it with your rock tumbling materials and never use it for anything else! You can place the legs of the jelly bag stand directly on the rim of the bucket. It is VERY stable. Pour the rocks from the tumbler container directly into the jelly bag. Use an outdoor hose to rinse the rocks. All the grit passes through the bag and is caught in the bucket. The rocks are clean and can be moved to a towel to examine and get ready for the next step. Carefully pour off as much excess water as you dare. Leave the bucket in the sun to allow the rest of the water to evaporate. You may be able to salvage almost all of the dried grit to use again.

A must have and perfect sized product for this or any brand tumbler. The decreasing coarseness of grits makes this almost fool proof to professionally polish gem stones. The price is very reasonable for the quantity and quality of the product. The manufacturer's packaging was great but unfortunately Amazon did not adequately repackage this as the product was excessively tossed within the shipping box. Fortunately no damage occurred to the product but the manufactured wrapping was torn.

Works well but too costly

I picked up tumbling rocks from my mom, although now I mostly tumble the Lake glass that my family and I hunt for obsessively from Lake Michigan. I love how shiny it makes the glass for use in all kinds of projects ❤️❤️. This kits is the one my mom and I began with and have stuck with for the most part. It works great, although I’m not sure how much variety there is in a product with only one ingredient, other than price! As far as price, it does seem comparable to others I have found. I only gave 4 stars simply because the amounts that come in the set should be roughly the same, but since they use weight to measure it you will always run out of Step 1 and Step 2 long before the others. These two steps have larger ingredients and fill up a Tablespoon much quicker than the others. I have been unsuccessful in finding these sold individually, although I may do some more research off Amazon. I will update this review with any findings. I did recently (this week) begin using a new product for steps 1 and 2, simply because they were sold individually in a larger amount. Unless I find a better deal to continue buying separately, I will continue to buy the set as needed and supplement the first two steps with this other brand. As far as quality it seems to be the same as this one as far as I can tell. But, then again, as I mentioned there is only one ingredient so I’m thinking the quality is probably decent across the board. For more info on sea glass and tumbling, please email me [email protected] or find me on Facebook: Terra Ternet. I’m happy to send some information free of charge! I will have my blog and a Pinterest page up and running soon and will update this review at that time. Until then, reach out if you’d like and happy tumbling!!

Nice size containers with easy to use instructions for use in tumblers.

My husband got me a rock tumbler and the Lortone Abrasive Tumbling Kit and a two pound bag of rocks for Valentines Day this year (yes, I know, true love, but that's what I said I wanted) and have just today completed my second batch of polished rocks and couldn't be happier. I've also ordered another Lortone Abrasive Tumbling Kit because I had to repeat a few steps due to operator error and I don't want to run out of any of it. I'm also still pretty dependent upon the book that came with my tumbler for the proper steps, quantities and weights per batch, and this Lortone Kit matches exactly with all of the steps outlined for my tumbler.

If I am going to spend this money, I want the best one made with a company who will stand behind their product.

I have never done any rock tumbling Before so I have never had to use grip before. This product exceeded my expectations, because I did not have any expectations. Thus far it works beautifully and i will be looking online to purchase it a little cheaper