hey what's up everybody today we're going to be cutting some porphyry on my lapidary
saw and not only are we going to be cutting it but i'm also going to be sharing with you
a brand new discovery to me maybe to a lot of you and it's not even in some books so let me show
you what i'm talking about all right so here is my bucket of porphyry i'm going to try to get as much
of this stuff cut before the sun goes down got my ppe couple of minnesota lake superior rock books
and one cut piece of porphyry i'm really excited about this so the discovery so excited so porphyry
which says in these books is a volcanic rock with crystal inclusions inside them you can
see in a lot of this stuff it has crystals in it and for fun the other day i cut one of them open
this one right here and i actually shared that on my instagram account
cutting it open but i didn't show in close detail what was found on the inside of this
now the discovery that i found that i think is really cool in this book and i have both of these
books up on my amazon storefront they are great great books here and here talks about porphyry
volcanic rock crystal inclusions it says porphyry is commonly mistaken for amygdaloidal basalt
or amygdaloidal rhyolite they're not the same thing two different things but let me show you
something and this is the discovery here's the porphyry that i cut one of my favorite pieces
now you're probably wondering what is it
right there that is agate banding in porphyry agate banding in basalt is amygdaloidal basalt
it says that they're not the same thing but here we have porphyry
these feldspar crystals and agate banding in the same i can't tell you how excited i
was when i found that so that's one of the things that i'm hoping when we cut some of
these other pieces of porphyry maybe some others have a good banding inside it i highly doubt it
because not a lot of the host rock that i have looks similar to this but we'll see i
got this thing filled up already i'll get it started and we'll start cutting some porphyry
all righty i'm gonna cut some of the smaller ones first we're just gonna cut them right in half
so
oh that's real quick real quick all right let me get those hosed off and i'll show you all
right so that first one that we cut i don't know why it was so hard i just put a new blade on so
you know maybe decide to work some of the kinks out
but mind the saw marks i think it's my fault i kind of pushed a little hard there
that is pretty stuff i don't see any bands in there that's okay i have a feeling it's
going to be very hard to find that again hopefully we can uh see lightning strike twice
that is so pretty those crystals in there
awesome i like this one this one went so quick just sped right through the cut
look at those beautiful crystals in there gosh that is so cool
that is awesome so i'm going to move on to a bigger one this guy right here this is white so
what i want to do is just kind of cut some faces off it and see if we can just turn
it into a nice little desk piece but isn't that pretty really unique for free love that
do
all right i changed my mind with what i wanted to do with that one
i just like the way that this natural state looks right here the way it kind of wraps around
but check that out that is just dense it's so dense so we'll polish these two faces
and then it can be a desk piece however i want it to kind of sit but that is pretty
oh i like that a lot all right up next for the chopping block this guy
it's got some really weird crystal inclusions going on in there it feels really soft like
it does not feel like it is basalt it just i feel like this is going to cut up very very fast um so
i'll probably take a face off there face off there and then we'll see how it looks at that point
so
got it
alrighty that did cut super quick kind of surprised by the insides very very
dense crystals not as pretty as the other stuff
it's kind of cool though almost looks like a piece of meat like a roast
hey that's cool
i like the other ones better but yeah you know what's weird too is like you can see
it's dry there it is very intact feeling just feels whole feels solid but right here it feels
like if i just smashed it it'd just break it's so weird it's just so weathered on the outside
interesting let's see what's up next got this one it's kind of thin i think we'll be able to
sneak it through but right here
that pocket right there seems like something that was found on the other one that had agate
in there right there as well so uh let's cut this one open and we'll see what's going on in there
it's all a heavy here i just realized in my last video
where i talked about blade safety i didn't even show you how safe these blades are
look it i'm touching it it's wet my fingers are fine touching the top
the fingers fine okay it grinds away at the stone it doesn't cut it grinds watch
it grinds okay it's safe
it's all good you guys it's all good now we gotta find that let's get it
alrighty let's check it out that went like butter
i don't see any but it's beautiful very very pretty it's a little light with those
sprays those crystals i was hoping there'd be something because of that but i don't see any
that's all right really pretty all right so we're going to cut this one
and uh not exactly sure what we're going to do yeah maybe we'll just cut this one
on half since we got a couple others i want to cut before the sun goes down
just play it safe with that and see what's going on inside if there's a lot maybe if
there's some agatebands going on in there we'll make some other slabs out of it not a bad idea
now oh yeah that is pretty that's so pretty
lots of really good crystals
awesome all right we're going to cut this port potato
it's a really pretty piece lots of crystals what should we do with it
should we slab this one since it's got so many i'll just make a couple slabs out of it
those turned out awesome
look at how beautiful that is
that's the little end piece so i figured i would uh just do a couple slabs of it and uh we can make
some stuff out of this keep this piece for maybe if i want to do anything else with it a little bit
left over but i want to at least take a chunk out of this and see what's going on in there uh maybe
we can get one more chance of finding some egg and pour free i think we got lucky with that one
which is totally crazy and the sun's about to set so what i'm gonna do is uh i'm going
to cut the bottom here and then we're going to cut it in half and maybe i can use it's like a
couple display pieces so let's do that before the sun goes down
ah dang i forgot about this one i'm going to do this one too i'll do both those here
this one's cool because it's red it's got like a very red post rock in it
i'm gonna do the same with both these i'm gonna cut the bottom cut it in half yeah
so
did it did it had to rotate it there that was that was big
let's get this stuff cleaned up i'll show you this and this red one inside
all right so i got all that pour fruit cleaned up i'm really excited to show you the last few
pieces that we cut and a lot of the other really nice ones in better lighting i know the sun was
setting out there so it's kind of hard to see but if you could do me a huge favor before i show you
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but let's take a look at this stuff it's so awesome here we have that red and white one
here's the bottom
i'm actually surprised at the inside with this one i thought there would be more white
crystal impressions not disappointed just surprised obviously this side looks the same
not the most glamorous display piece in my opinion
look better on the outside but hey as i always say that's the cost of exploration
and then this big piece this is the i don't know you call it the bottom the butt
this is so beautiful i'm gonna have to take a closer look at some of these little pockets see
if we can find some mega bands there because i thought when i was outside that i saw some
but let me show you these two halves here
this one by far
was my favorite cut of all of these it turned out so amazing it's like i said
cut the bottom have it as a display piece probably like this
stuck together
how beautiful is that so amazing
crystals this pocket right here
and this whole thing is smooth i don't feel any kind of pockets or pitting or anything
really cool let me take a close look to see if i can find any agate bands so i took a
good long look at all this porphyry that we cut today and i didn't find any more pockets of egg
not disappointed it just goes to show you how rare that piece is let's take a closer look at it
all right so the piece right there i'll put an arrow pointing at it
that's skip an atom agate there's another pocket right there
then you can see the bands right there
this isn't even the best one see the couple pockets right there
that right there and then this is the one that got me all excited
seeing that in the periphery when i cut it
that is so cool
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