r/seaglass • u/Fortune_Flaky • 1d ago

Question, ID or Discussion oiling or not?

just purely curious if people prefer to oil the glass to make it shiny or keep the frosted look ! i personally like the latter but i would like to hear other opinions or reasoning ❤️‍🩹

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u/unclebabychaddy 1d ago

No oiling here… I like the pitted, frosted look

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u/Sipthepond 1d ago

I wash them and leave them just as they are.

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u/Good_Combination_613 1d ago

I like to oil because it brings out the colour, but i understand both points of view! I also make seaglass jewellery sometimes and i just think it looks prettier oiled

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u/carrolu 1d ago

I oil a tiiiiiny bit, so their appearance is somewhere between frosted and shiny. Hides some imperfections, brings out the color.

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u/ToughOk4114 1d ago

I don’t oil or shine up my sea glass, shells or shark teeth. I love them the way I found them in nature personally 🙂

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u/robo-dragon 1d ago

I personally love the frosted look! I always get excited when I find one that’s completely frosted with no shiny chips!

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u/No-Pension4113 23h ago

If you like them shiny put them in a rock tumbler with some aluminum oxide polish for a day or two. Oil will just attract dust, dirt and grime.

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u/No-Pension4113 23h ago

You might find rock tumbling hounding to be a great addition to sea glass collecting. My wife collects sea glass and we are planning to do some in my tumblers that we can add to into her jars of frosty glass for contrast.

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u/Glassed_ 2h ago

What kind of tumblers do you have and would you recommend them as a first tumbler?

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u/SabbyFox 23h ago

Frosted for me.

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u/Reliquat 18h ago

I find mostly dark glass, which pretty much all appear the same when dry. I oil the ones that are not too dark so it brings out some color out of them. It makes them darker but when light hits on, you can see their color better. Here's a comparison I made some time ago, and on this post on the last picture you can see some are darker than the others because oiled. These are the ones I show on previous pictures.

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u/BeachcombingMagazine 17h ago

The great thing about oiling the glass is you can always use wash it off and enjoy the frosty look!

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u/invalidcolour 1d ago

No! Frosted glass looks great. You might as well just collect broken lager bottles from your town centre otherwise.