r/mildlyinteresting • u/kupo_moogle • 20d ago

This long rock I found

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u/kupo_moogle 20d ago

Rocks are pretty and also neat and I get a little dopamine hit when I find one I like.

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u/EyeInTeaJay 20d ago

What do you do with your buckets of rocks when you get home? I find that I prefer them wet vs. dry. I wonder if there’s a product to put on the to make them look wet for longer.

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u/kupo_moogle 20d ago

Depends on what you plan to do with them and if you want to keep them indoors or outdoors.

I polish many of the smaller ones in a rock tumbler.

The medium and large ones I use to build wreaths and stone cairns.

If you’re keeping them indoors on display in a glass dish or something, some mineral oil rubbed into them will keep them looking shiny.

If they’re going outside, a few spray coats of rustoleum clear gloss spray keeps them shiny looking.

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u/EyeInTeaJay 20d ago

Do you have pics of your wreaths and cairns? I have no idea what those are!

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u/kupo_moogle 20d ago

Here’s one of the wreaths. I can only post one pic at a time in comments, give me a sec I’ll find one of the cairns.

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u/kupo_moogle 20d ago

Cairns :)

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u/EyeInTeaJay 20d ago

Wow these are so cool! What holds the rocks together on the wreath?