we're cutting lake superior agates today with my lapidary saw and this is how we started
what an absolute beauty of a lake superior agate nodule awesome so we have a huge batch of lake
superior agates we're gonna be cutting today i'm very excited to show you all the beautiful
bands that are gonna be exposed i am cutting these for a buddy his name's daniel wants to
see what's going on the inside and he doesn't have a saw so turn this back on get to cutting
so
alrighty so we are about a third of the way through these cuts we have over 30
lake superior agates to cut in this batch of daniel's agates and not gonna lie these are
some really beautiful agates and so far there hasn't been one of them that is not oh my heater
hold on sorry about that i got a new heater let me show you ah yes this thing's pretty fancy
keeps the shop out here in the garage nice and toasty as it's getting colder up here
in the north lands of minnesota so yeah it is uh tonight this temperature outside pretty cold so i
went about a heater for the garage so we could keep cutting all winter long i was also going
to say too if you guys are new to this channel hit that subscribe button so you can stay tuned
for future cutting videos we're going to be able to do it all winter long but check this one out
look at those bands oh my goodness was not expecting that i honestly thought this was
going to be the first dud it is not here's another one really cool ready for this one
look at that absolutely beautiful quartz in there there's bands all the way around so pretty
how amazing are those bands so cool
oh my gosh that's insane
hey we're gonna cut one that i'm a little nervous to cut this guy right here
i'll show you how it looks in just a second
let's check this thing out ah really hoping this one plays out
oh my gosh it's so beautiful
the flow channel so cool so beautiful looks like a heart oh my gosh it's a heart
well this is how many we've cut so far and this is how many we have left
so we are getting down to the wire we got about five
lake superior agate left and they are the five biggest i forgot that these little
guys were hiding kind of around the edge of my little bucket there check this out
isn't that cool i love how the bands go around the outside little pocket on the inside and some water
level banding on the bottom ah interesting reminds me of a brazilian agate that i have
this guy right here absolutely amazing now i got to say of all these agate it's not a single one
of them have yet to be a dud in my opinion they are all beautiful in their own right
so let's keep that trend going with these last five that we have i gotta say
they are some mighty mighty lake superior agates they are gonna take a bit longer to cut
because of their size i'm excited to see what's going on internally
and i'm pretty nervous to cut this big guy lima knight carnelian husk hidden bands throughout
it's gonna be fun so let's start peeling that band-aid folks
i'm out here with my smoking hot wife with the reveal oh my goodness that's tubie
totally tubular tubular goodness that's pretty cool that's awesome see how the limonite
stains the exterior and it runs deep so maybe it's not staining super cool just me again my wife
abandoned me just kidding it's cold out here this is the next one on the chopping box let's do it
let's do it this way see the bands right there
oh looks like it lost a piece oh get out of here
look at that quartz coming through there oh my goodness that is crazy
i can't believe that that fractured i mean you can see those fractures
running through but jeez louise i mean what do you do you can't do anything look at that
wow awesome next one this guy right here it is beautiful
uh fantastic peeler i don't know what to expect from this it's got bands geez
a mosquito just flew by crazy it's like 40 degrees in this garage all right let's cut it
the bigger they get the longer it takes oh i caught a peek i caught a peek there's some
bands you ready let's do it oh my gosh get out of here that is like purple right there
that's absolutely purple not amethyst just purple that's crazy oh my gosh
oh wow second to last one
this guy right here carnelian limonite gonna cut it the long way for surface area
oh wow
that is very interesting look at the limonite inside that wow that is really cool
that is fantastic we are on the last lake superior agate to cut
well this is good i'm gonna turn the heater back on
i don't know if you can see my breath there it is mighty cold in here
so i have not looked so i cut this one exactly where i wanted it
on both ends pretty happy with that take a peek oh my gosh it's a geode agate
with a cow it's got calcite is that oh my gosh that looks like calcite in the middle
and that is we'll have to get it dried off to look at that but
that looks like calcite and that looks like smoky quartz possible amethyst oh my gosh what a way to
end it with a first on the channel first for me first for all of you who have been watching a
geode agate that is insane i'm gonna get these cleaned off this is awesome this is so cool
oh my gosh
well we got him in and i gotta say every single one of these that we cut was
amazing and i wanted to pick my favorite to show you guys but there
there's too many so i'm gonna do my top three top three favorites real quick
this guy absolutely beautiful it is that's wild that is just too cool i love this one
love this one a lot i'm calling this one the heart i think it looks just like a heart
an actual heart not like an emoji heart
that is too cool and then this guy right here this is the very first one we cut
and uh yeah
how cool is that my wife said it looked like a snail was when she was out there to
check in on me how cool is that that's beautiful so yeah those three are my favorite
and one last time we'll just show you the last one one more time two beautiful the geode agate
happened before if you guys know much about geodes let me know what you think is that calcite or is
that quartz but this is definitely black that's smoky quartz it's not purple that is pretty cool
well thank you all so much for watching i had an absolute blast cutting all those like superior
agates if you guys liked the video leave a thumbs up and we'll see you on the next adventure bye
bye