hey what's up everybody welcome back for another video today i'm going to be cutting mary ellen
jasper for tim he sent it over to us so we could cut it in half for him and see what's going on
inside this is a beautiful stone you have got to check this out so here is the stone mary ellen
jasper it's a stromatolite it's an ancient fossil it's estimated to be around 1.9 to 2.1 billion
years old and tim wants us to cut it for him right down this line right here i added a few extras
we're going to cut it right in half if you've ever seen the inside of mary ellen jasper
it can be absolutely breathtaking so let's head out fire up the saw cut this thing in half
alrighty we got the saw filled up with water we got our stone
and we got our line if we can find it again there it is i'll probably cut it this way
straight through i can kind of see this side a little bit better because of the angle
so we'll just cut it right along this line see what's going on inside it's fired up
well we did it that took probably a good 10 minutes but
it's uh i don't know if you can see my breath there it's a little cold in here let me turn the
heater on for a few minutes and then we'll look inside this i haven't looked at it yet we're gonna
look at it together for the first time one sec we got our heated back up in here a little bit
so here it is i am really happy with the cut we hit right on his marks start and finish
really happy with this so let's take a peek at it together
oh my gosh
oh i didn't expect it to be that good get out of here
look at that detail oh my gosh there's like blues in there wow you can see me in the reflection
get out of here this is insane
and this is one of the first pieces of mary ellen jasper i have ever cut and i have a bunch
of this stuff if you guys want to see me cut up a bunch of my own mary ellen jasper let me know
i have a bunch and it's going to be pretty hard not to so if you guys want to see it really soon
let me know i can try to get on that but you know what let's get in some better light let's
get warmed up and i'm going to take some macro video of this because this is just so beautiful
all right we'll see in a sec so we've made it back inside and we are warming up one chip at a time
i cannot get enough of these i'm addicted i'm addicted
almost as hot as this rock look at this
get out of town oh my goodness gracious this is so beautiful if you guys can do me a favor thank
tim for sending this over to us so we could cut it feels like an absolute blessing to
be able to see this and share with all of you this is awesome it's so beautiful the colors
it's so good so i'm gonna get my macro lens put on
and we'll take a closer look at this it's so beautiful
well i gotta say this mary ellen jasper is
absolutely breathtaking i hope you enjoyed the video if you did leave a thumbs up and do me a
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