so up here on my rock display shelf is a piece of cut and polished galaxy stone
the galaxy stone is actually just a nickname for amygdaloidal basalt and in this one it has so
many beautiful pockets with lake superior agates crystal vugs all over in it and this is hands down
one of my favorite pieces that we've cut in the past that leads into what we're doing this video
we're cutting more we have a whole lot of it with a lot of really really great potential
and when i told my wife i was gonna be cutting up a bunch of galaxy stones she said
you gotta wear the onesie oh yeah and the best part about this thing is
it's goes all the way up and i was also going to say that we're going to be putting
all right so i was also going to say that we're going to be putting on a brand new blade to
cut this galaxy stone with so let's go put that on so we got the brand new 10 inch thin center blade
on and this is the old one as you can see we're going to be working off all of this red paint or
whatever it is so you'll be seeing a lot of that in the video we'll just wipe it off it's no big
deal it doesn't hurt the stone so i need to fill this up with some water let me go fill up a bucket
we have a lot to cut and when i came out here i found a few more pieces like this guy right
here we are absolutely going to cut this it has so many agate pockets in there little crystal
pocket oh man let's let's start with this guy right here this has some amethyst in it and uh
we'll cut a couple of these too right away afterwards but we'll cut and show this one first
all right the first cut
oh you can see that amethyst right here it runs deeper from right here oh that is so cool
i'll uh we'll cut it one more time right along here we'll see how
how deep that amethyst runs let's take a peek at that
oh that is really cool pretty cool little amethyst running deep in there that's pretty neat we're
gonna cut these ones up now definitely looks like there's a going on you can see right there
i don't think that's gonna run much deeper but we're gonna cut it right along here
and go from there and then this one will cut it a few times right there
so it looks like we already got a natural sneak peek on this one
nothing nothing going on in there this guy right here little itty bitty agate pocket right here
some more little looks like probably very micro quartz pockets not as interesting
as some of the other ones i've cut we'll get there many many to cut
all right we are on the scoreboard we got a good galaxy stone this one this big guy right here on
the inside these little pockets right here they're actually really really cool really beautiful
so we're keeping that one and then the smaller one that we cut
after that also has 80 qualities going on inside right there very very small
that's kind of running into it little itty bitty pockets so hopefully we get some bigger pockets
and in my bin of galaxy stones i got a bunch of smaller ones and we'll just uh
we'll cut through a whole bunch these here
cut through those pretty quick got some pretty cool stuff going on in here
really beautiful agate characteristics going on in there that's really unique love how it runs
runs around comes in here runs around so cool this one was pretty bland but
these agate pockets they run a little deeper up in so that's kind of neat
it's got some very little very little agate bands going on and i was going to say if we
get any really good stuff i'll put some good pictures up at the end with the macro lens on
so definitely stay tuned for that this guy right here had a really really cool
really cool agate coming out right here and i was hoping it'd run through
and it didn't but i thought this would be a really cool piece to turn into a cabochon so i cut it a
little thin right there so we'll be working that one in the future someone had some mega bands
agatey goodness going on in there
i like that little circle right there that's pretty neat this one's just a mess
i had high hopes for this guy right here a lot of pockets really really beautiful on the inside
i really like that that is some really really interesting bands right here
that's cool i'm gonna move on to another batch we've got some really interesting pieces
this one has a ton of agate bands on the exterior it looks like it's just running all over in it
a couple of very classic looking galaxy stones a lot of pockets and this one has a lot of little
amethyst vugs in it so i'm gonna try i'll probably only be able to get one swipe out of there
because it's kind of broken up here and you can see there's some natural fractures going
on so it may fracture but we're gonna go for the biggest surface area with this cut really excited
well i was right this one did fracture it's a bit of a stinker
these ones cut pretty good this one i don't think had a ton going on looks like there's
some little itty bitty pockets oh there's totally agate bands in these little guys that's cool
that legit looks like a little heart
well that's pretty neat we'll definitely get a macro shot of that little heart i was excited
about this one i haven't looked at it yet at all cut it right between that agatey area
oh dang i was hoping it'd run deeper but that is sweet i love that that is really
really pretty so good it's broken up oh man alive i wish this didn't break that is such
deep purple that's all purple look at all those amethyst pockets that is so cool
i've never ever cut one that has so much amethyst in there
oh wow that's sweet so now we're going to cut open a couple of big boys i'm going to slab this one
into three three to four slabs this one's going to take a while it still has moss in there yeah
i could see this one breaking up a bunch but i'm gonna make probably to get the most out of it and
the easiest way to cut it because of the size i'll cut it this way as many times as i possibly can
so i was pretty excited because we got five pieces out of this stone right here
and look at how many we got out of that you can see by the colors and everything going on
this is special i haven't looked at it in its fullness i got some glimpses
this is insane but this one right here i was happy because there's some little itty bitty
pockets in there there's they're kind of hard to see little little agate pockets though a little
bigger on that side you can see one right there and i like that guy right there that almost looks
purple looks like another amethyst pocket that's pretty sweet but the big guy right here this one
is the king it takes the cake it's got so much going on and because like i said
we're gonna be losing these red bits on this it has this red stuff all over the slabs so
i'm gonna head back in and i'm gonna clean all this up because we have a lot to look at
from just the first glimpses that i've seen like look at that right there look at that
yeah that's gonna be sweet let me get that cleaned up and i'll show you everything i got that big
galaxy stone with all that agatey goodness all cleaned up and i'm so excited to show you and take
a closer look myself but i just want to say if you guys are liking this video do me a huge favor
leave a thumbs up i had a lot of fun cutting all these up and i'm really really pumped that
the last one that we cut had all the good stuff so let's take a look alrighty so here's that big guy
i'd haven't even counted how many slabs we got out of this not including the butts one two three four
five six seven eight slabs eight to look at we'll start at the small end here and even the small end
has some really cool a good characteristics going on inside check that oh those bands
oh yeah
that's so cool
wow
oh that's sweet right there
so orange so so orange
oh check that out part of an eye yes that is sweet oh that is so cool oh an even bigger
an even bigger part of an eye and another one it looks like part of another one oh my goodness
potentially another one look at that that is spectacular oh my gosh i suppose those are eyes
running through from the other one oh that is so neat look at this big pocket that is cool double i
double i oh my gosh i can't believe it i'd say as far as galaxy stones go this one probably
for consistency through the slabs takes the cake as one of the best it's not as packed as that one
i showed at the very beginning of the video but man oh man it's got a lot going on i'm sure you
guys can see why i love galaxy stones so much they're just so fun they're a big gamble i mean
as you saw with all the other cuts it's not always a guarantee but when you get a good one
boy is it fun that's a pretty for this one it's a pretty decent sized eye in this
so even though with the rest of these they weren't as cool as that big one but i mean that amethyst
one was that was pretty sweet and there are a few other ones that were
really really cool but there was a lot of micro beauties in this bunch so i'm
gonna pop my macro lens on like i said take a couple pictures and show you some good stuff
well that about wraps up this video and i had a ton of fun cutting all those pieces up i really
hope you enjoyed it and i want you to know this will not be the last galaxy stone cutting video
that we make i have this really big chunk right here it's full of agate and nodules and
the big old quartz pocket in there high hopes for this piece
thank you guys so much for watching bye and the best part about this thing is
i hope you enjoyed it and i want you to know i