hey what's up everybody welcome back for another lapidary video in this one we're going to be doing
something really fun we're going to be grinding away the husk on an agate not just any agate a
pink lake superior agate nodule this thing is awesome so here it is the pink nodule the green
stuff on the face that we're gonna be polishing that's dopping wax i uh dropped it in some wax
after i dopped it I dropped it like its hot what we're gonna be doing to this is grinding
down this husk right here and hopefully we're going to expose some internal agatey goodness
there are no visible bands or any sort of details on this other than the fact that it's
just an agate and nodule so everything about this is a mystery and it's all hiding within
and we're gonna expose it together so let me turn on my calving machine and we'll get to grinding
first few little swipes and right here we have some bands that are already showing up
and i've just been starting to slowly go around you can see some of those flat spots in there
bands right there so we're going to keep bringing it down get this husk
out of there and let's see what else we got hiding in there
alrighty so we worked that pretty good with the 80 grit wheel and some great details are starting
to come out looks like this is possible water level banding on the side right here and the pink
is kind of going away and it's turning into this under orange and i was thinking there
was a possible eye i'll have to do some more polishing on it and i'm going to be a little
light in this area because i don't want that to go away but it might be an eye it might be
a tube we'll see if it's a perfect circle as we get a little further down so like i said
i'm going to be very careful in this area not to go down any further with polishing and i'll
be a little more heavy on polishing up here as you can see we're doing a rounded polish and
i definitely want to go down further here to see what's what else is hiding i want more
bands or more eyes that'd be great too so i'm going to move on i'm going to skip the 220 grit
wheel and move on to the soft back right here i'm going to move on to softback 280 grit wheels so
let's get some water going with that we'll turn it on and we'll start smoothing it out
and getting rid of these flat spots and keep working this down right here
so good news bad news good news is there's some really beautiful bands right here a little
hidden window of water level banding some nice bands coming in right here
as well you can almost see the layering and then this looks more like a tube over an eye
and right here underneath the husk in the nodule is a lot of quartz
and i like how it looks with some of the husk hiding on top of it so we'll see if we can keep
it if not we're just going to polish it but it looks like it's primarily as far as percentage of
the nodule primarily quartz on the inside so if as we polish through the next stages and come through
and we lose this it's still going to look really beautiful it's going to be quartz surrounded by
old remnants of what the nodule was as well as these bands these will stay there because these
are likely going in you can kind of see right here it's a little darker in there it's like the bands
are running in that way so those will stay there we'll try to keep this tube down here because that
looks pretty cool and then hopefully these bands right here stay as well but i was hoping that
there'd be some pretty spectacular bands going on in there a lot of quartz of course is still really
beautiful and i've never polished a nodule like this so i'm really excited to see how it plays out
so i'm going to hop on the softback 600 nova wheel and we'll just we'll run through the stages here
so we have gone through all the stages except the last one which is the cerium oxide
disc right here at the end of the calving machine and i'm really excited with how this is turning
out it's not quite what i expected to be honest i thought there might be more but i do love that the
quartz is peeking through the old husk so that's really unique so let's finish it up and then we'll
show you all the amazing details there is quite a bit of really cool stuff going on in this nodule
so we got our pink agate nodule through the final stage and look at the light play on that
that is amazing
we kept the tube we didn't lose that kept the bands
we didn't lose that it's got some really cool details down in here let's take a closer look
so there we have that beautiful water level banding that was the first to expose itself
on this nodule really really love that love me some good water level banding i also love the
quartz i know it kind of dominates the majority of this nodule but it turned out really pretty and i
think it looks like ice the old husk that's barely hanging on or on the outside here is really pretty
and if you look really close it has some really great details in there we were able to save this
tube here at the end i don't believe it's an eye i don't think it's a perfect circle but let
me know what you think maybe it is an eye but the details around it here is really really beautiful
and i think this end is probably the prettiest end of the whole nodule i really love how the
bands and all the details kind of layer upwards towards that tube it's almost like stepping up
towards it it's really really beautiful so yeah this is what's left of our pink agate nodule
so i had a lot of fun working the stone and seeing what was hiding just beneath the husk
and as you saw when we take a closer look there's so many amazing details in there so no way am i
disappointed with how this turned out it's really really interesting a lot of really cool details
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