Welcome back to the channel friends. So, today's video: we're gonna be cutting some rocks.
I have some rocks here that were mailed to me, very generously, by a viewer a while ago.
And uh well, I think it's time we cut them. So uh, I kind of have an idea what to expect a little bit,
but we will uh, we'll bring you bring in here and we'll look at them and then we're going to go down,
uh, I got the saws set up down in the basement, we'll get to cutting!
So I'm pretty sure that all of these will, well they're all going to cut nicely on the trim saw. They're all pretty small.
So, we have Mexican coconut geode. I have no idea what to expect from this.
I've never seen anything like this but it is quite lightweight.
This is another one that's pretty light.
We got a geode from Fruita, Colorado.
I think this could be pretty good.
And I haven't uh, I haven't done any real research on any of these.
Uh...
I have no idea what they're gonna look like on the inside so we're gonna find out together.
This one says "Geode?".
I don't know. Not from the pacific northwest, that's for sure.
Lastly, something that I've been looking forward to for a while.
Get these out of here.
Okay.
Thundereggs!
And I have no clue what they're gonna look like.
I think uh, I have high hopes. I, I'm certainly partial to a good thunderegg.
So uh with that said we're gonna head on down to the basement and uh let's uh, let's do some cutting.
So, I think to start we're going to be uh going with this one right here that was just "Geode?".
See if it's anything.
I'm going to be running the red thinister...thinister?... blade and uh this will just barely fit.
I might have to do a little bit of a roll but this is a pretty well, lightweight rock. Probably a geode.
Oh, that is pretty awesome!
Look at that!
Well, I have no clue where that's from. But uh well, the first one: pretty good.
Okay, next up: Mexican coconut geode. You can kind of already see that this has
some little white crystall-y pockets, kind of even coming through right there. So I have high hopes for this one.
Let's see, let's uh cut it just like that.
Okay...
Oh wow. It's got like interesting little tubes going on. That is not what I would have expected, at all.
I guess, so what, it was like
that.
And of course uh, we'll be taking this out to the shop and looking at it but that is definitely, uh, on the more delicate side.
Next up: we've got this geode from Colorado.
Another one that I have no idea what we should be expecting here.
Oh wow, that one's got a lot of little quartz crystals in there. I think it's quartz.
I mean, it could definitely just be, uh, calcite.
It's hard to tell right now but we'll definitely be looking out at that out in the shop.
and the red's from the, from the blade.
Next up we got some thundereggs. Five little thundereggs here.
This is gonna definitely take a little bit longer to do the cutting on so I'm not going to show you all of that.
But we'll uh take a look at them when we're all done.
So, it's actually the next day now and uh well, it's the next day for a very good reason, and we'll get to that here shortly.
But first let's start by looking at some of the bad.
One of the thunder eggs well, it didn't make it.
It, uh, had some cracks. But also I mean, in general, there's not a whole lot going on with this one.
You can see:
it's just kind of a plain...kind of plain. That's okay.
Next up we'll look at one of the other thunder eggs.
I'm trying to use as little water as possible.
[laughs] It's, uh 23 degrees out right now.
Not much warmer in here.
Beautiful little thunderegg. Absolutely gorgeous.
Another one here:
the depth on this one is really, really incredible.
And I'm uh, super stoked about these. That's a beautiful thunderegg and it's gonna polish up beautifully.
Okay. On to the geodes. Let's start the geode from Colorado.
Look at that. That is so pretty. I think uh, what we'll do is for this one here
we could put it back there and it'll be like a geode within a geode.
This is the one that was uh, "Geode?".
And uh it's probably one of my favorites out of this. It's uh, it's so cool and you know I like
geodes and thunder eggs because on the outside they're kind of meh, right? Like, it's a boring, little,
usually like, gray, pale, kind of rock and they're just awesome.
Something about, like, the hidden beauty of it which I just find really appealing.
All right. The Mexican coconut geode with all these little tubes in it.
So cool. And you can see right there how thin it is. This is very fragile.
I think too, um, I haven't done this in a while, but at the end of the video there will be a slideshow.
Okay. On to the, the best find. Right, this is a super rare thing.
Uh, so rare that there's very little information about it. Okay, here we go.
Now, when I first cut this I thought it was just black on the inside. Only uh, later did I realize, well hey this isn't drying. Now I know it's kind of hard to see
but what you're looking at is a geode that's filled with crude oil.
I know. It's like an enhydro but with oil. It's absolutely crazy. I've done some research it is a thing that happens, um...
But it's, it's not common to have these. And I mean you can even see
like, it looks like burnt motor oil, used up motor oil, you know, and uh smells like it. and uh...
Wow. It's just it's such a cool find um I've haven't, was not expecting that, whatsoever.
So um. Hey everybody, thank you so much for watching my channel, checking out the the content here,
coming along, doing some cutting, all that good stuff. there's a pile of links down below.
Definitely check out some of that stuff and uh go to the main channel page. I got playlists with
all kinds of great beneficial information and uh yeah. Um, stay and now we'll uh do a slideshow here.
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