Soaking a few

[CreekSide]

I mostly creek hunt and a lot of my finds are so stained people think they are rocks in the pictures. They are usually pretty ugly when they dry out and turn solid black. I got something called Cleaning Vinegar and I’m soaking some that were so stained I hadn’t even put them in frames. Now they aren’t done yet and I will repost them when competed. All were a solid black just yesterday. Check out the colors coming fourth.

 

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[antmike915]

Interesting, looking forward to how they turn out. I have never tried any vinegar (I only have a few I've found in creeks; most are too sandy my way). I have soaked some of my Florida finds in mineral oil and they turned out very colorful and some translucent. Alot of my S. GA finds turn caramel color and translucent. I know mineral oil would absolutely do nothing for anything creek stained.

 

[CreekSide]

Interesting, looking forward to how they turn out. I have never tried any vinegar (I only have a few I've found in creeks; most are too sandy my way). I have soaked some of my Florida finds in mineral oil and they turned out very colorful and some translucent. Alot of my S. GA finds turn caramel color and translucent. I know mineral oil would absolutely do nothing for anything creek stained.

I dropped a few broken ones in last night I wouldn’t recommend it for any grainy material like Rhyolite just chert and quartz. Heading to work in a bit, thanks for the interest

 

[CreekSide]

I dropped a few broken ones in last night I wouldn’t recommend it for any grainy material like Rhyolite just chert and quartz. Heading to work in a bit, thanks for the interest

Well I’ve soaked a few the best one was the first picture I posted. Still have to get some more pictures letting them dry out first. I do find black chert so some I thought might be a different color underneath we’re just black. But the tan and grey ones came out pretty good

 

[CreekSide]

Interesting, looking forward to how they turn out. I have never tried any vinegar (I only have a few I've found in creeks; most are too sandy my way). I have soaked some of my Florida finds in mineral oil and they turned out very colorful and some translucent. Alot of my S. GA finds turn caramel color and translucent. I know mineral oil would absolutely do nothing for anything creek stained.

Came out okay

 

[Tdog]

I'd be happy with that!

 

[antmike915]

I wouldn't have left them behind either 👍

 

[CreekSide]

I'd be happy with that!

I’m tempted to soak another that was a beautiful green and tan when I found it but dried black and tan but I don’t know if it would go back to the green. Sure don’t want to ruin the color

 

[CreekSide]

Well I just had to soak a few more 😃
Now just think all of these were solid black. What a surprise to see a quartz and some quartzite and then the 2 tone in hand. But then again some were actually black.

 

[CaptEsteban]

Vinegar is an acid, so be careful. You can dilute it, too.

 

[CreekSide]

Vinegar is an acid, so be careful. You can dilute it, too.

Yea I’m not putting my best in it mostly broken ones and definitely not grainy types like Rhyolite. It’s just interesting to see the materials. All of these I thought were black chert due to the stain

 

[CreekSide]

Vinegar is an acid, so be careful. You can dilute it, too.

There is one unifaced knife in that group. Most of these weren’t in frames so I’m cleaning them to make them more frame worthy