here in this tub we have a bunch of lightning stones and we're going to cut them open
the lightning stone is actually just a nickname for septarian these are from Michigan and
they were sent to us by Dutch so we could cut them open and find even more beautiful
details inside I'm really excited to see what's going on so let's head out fire up our 10
inch Lapidary saw and get to cutting
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[Music] Cuts I haven't looked at any of them and these are some of our smaller pieces some
of the not so fancy pieces like stuff like this and just so you guys know we are going
to be cutting this in this video we're going to be cutting it last and we're going to be
cutting it right down the middle right there and let's check this one out though oh we
caught a little bit of that and some of these ones they were kind of like I'm not even sure
exactly where to cut that we're learning I've never cut this stuff before ever well that
is that is so pretty look at that change in color
so beautiful
oh these were the ones that I picked first because they're like in my opinion weren't
the some of the best pieces so I'm super excited with how they turned out let's grab a couple
of the nicer medium sized pieces and cut those [Music]
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I did sneak a little peek at this one and I think you're gonna like it [Laughter] how
crazy is that that is so beautiful and I think I forgot to mention this white stuff inside
here that's calcite this is what I'm talking about look at how beautiful that is that beautiful
calcite shooting through the Matrix like lightning this is super cool I I think I'm going to
polish this one for sure so I am over the moon with that last cut so I want to grab
a couple of the other big ones and cut those ones now let's do this one and this one [Music]
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turned out oh that's so beautiful so sweet I kind of can sneak a peek on this one here
kinda kinda looks like maybe a bit of a dud oh no it's not it's got some stuff in there
it's just right there where it was peeking out let me rinse this off real quick gosh
you see where it gets the nickname lightning Stone from
so sweet man and these are very soft you know it's like Matrix host Rock it just cuts through
it so quick so like these ones took about a minute to cut through so up next on The
Chopping Block we're gonna cut these last three small ones then we're gonna get into
three medium to large ish ones and then last I got this really awkward piece here and uh
we got Big Poppy right here really excited about this one
let's get these little guys first though
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let me rinse these off quick all right I did not sneak any Peaks on any of these I guess
I just saw that right there wow nothing going on with that see what this guy with that unconventional
cut looks like yeah not as cool not as cool I think as the others but it's still uh still
pretty all right this one I'm really excited about I hope it's good
really that's insane nothing I didn't expect that at all well that makes me really nervous
actually for this guy that there's nothing going on in the inside and then we're gonna
have to make other cuts hey we'll see huh alrighty well I'm gonna make a couple more
cuts on that just to see if it gets closer if it makes a difference but also cut uh these
ones too
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I'd say to shut my heater off I want to rinse this off and take a closer look that's awesome
glad we got another good one God I love the coloring in in there even this brown is so
beautiful how it gets dark and it's lighter that is so sweet I I don't know what to think
about this one it's got these little lightning strikes kind of going in every direction I
want to go surface area so I'll probably go right through there we'll do this funky one
first though [Music]
thank you [Music] oh [Music] all right oh yes that is a good one
it's a little wood kick that's so funny this guy right here there's so much going on [Music]
let me rinse that oh pretty all these every single one of them everyone you're ever gonna
find ever they're all gonna be individually unique you're never gonna get too the same
so I get so excited because they're just all so different also unique let's cut this uh
this awkward one right here I'm gonna call it as a super stud I bet it's gonna be crazy
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this is a dud inside cut it perfect cut it perfectly check this out yeah all right moment
of truth yes it's awesome so cool let me just give this a little rinse so pretty look at
that
cool cool cool let's get that big guy going ah I'm so torn on What's it gonna be inside
is it gonna be muddy with nothing going on or is it gonna be insane you can see that
these they're going towards each other oh
it's the right height we'll do it
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oh our final cut hopefully and I say hopefully because I hope we don't have to cut more layers
off the sides I'm worried that it's gonna be nothing going on on the inside but let's
see
I was right ah we gotta cut it again which is okay we'll cut through some of this mud
here and uh we'll get closer to the lightning we can do it we can do it
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I got through the cut but looks like we had some blowing out right here on the end it's
so hard because it's about as tall as the blades so we lost some pieces here which is
kind of a bummer but slab right here that I made that's intact so if it's good
ah it's not gonna lie is what it is right I wish it was more through it's still really
beautiful you know I could take a cut of this and make something from it but I just
I worry that if we do that again with this side that We're not gonna hit it like I'd
like to and if I get too thin it's gonna blow out and fracture and I don't want to ruin
because I feel like I kind of ruined this right here it is what it is but I don't want
to ruin this I think that's beautiful and I can now that it's kind of flat I can sit
it on a display put it like that so I think I'm just going to leave this one for now maybe
I'll mess with that at a later date but I'm going to leave it right now let me get all
this cleaned up I'm freezing cold right here so I'm gonna head inside one of my favorite
sayings is hindsight is 20 20 and a fool is blind now if I would have known that the last
one that we cut had absolutely nothing going on on the inside after its first cut I would
have left it alone because out of all those beautiful septarian nodules that Dutch sent
me that one was my absolute favorite and if you've watched some of our other cutting videos
you know sometimes it doesn't go like we would hope and another one of my sayings that I
like to say is that's the cost of exploration it just is what it is and we can salvage a
display piece out of this so at least there's that but I do feel really bad that this piece
right here got broken up I am sad about that but you got to take risks and I don't like
playing it safe it's fun to cut stuff even though uh it doesn't work out the way we like
it sometimes yeah we had a lot of really beautiful Cuts though with all of these sweet lightning
stones and my favorite one is this guy right here I think that is spectacular I'm so happy
with that and if this was the only good one we got I would have been happy still so awesome
so I want to say a huge thank you to Dutch for sending all those beautiful lightning
Stones over to me so I could cut them and share it all with all of you I hope you all
enjoyed it thank you so much for watching if you enjoyed it leave a thumbs up leave
a comment let me know what you thought and we'll see you next time bye [Music] foreign
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