right behind me i have a box of agatized coral but all of the coral pieces in here are pretty small
so we're going to cut them on my 10 inch lapidary saw to see is it worth cutting these little pieces
open are they duds or are they beautiful on the inside we're going to cut a lot today
so we cut through all these pieces to start with and it didn't take too long but
some of them kind of fractured shown some really nice signs you can see some beautiful banding
going on inside this agatized coral same with this one here and it's very fragile and i was
giving it a lot of finesse because i know how delicate these pieces could be and i was able
to get through this one here which i think is really unique with no fracturing or anything
i haven't looked at this this is the first time seeing this that is so cool oh you can
see the bands right in there oh that is going to look great under uv light and if you don't know
agatized coral reacts to uv light showing a lot more hidden detail so we'll be taking a peek at
all these under uv light when we're all said and done but let's take a peek at a few more of these
oh that's funny very very interesting love the blacks and the blues in these
oh that's awesome beautiful white blacks blues
and this last one here interesting i don't know i haven't had too many with that kind of coloring
in there very very interesting and i'm going to take my old shaker box here and throw all
of our agatized coral pieces in there so we can hose it off when we're all said and done
there are so many pieces in here so i would say so far it's totally worth cutting they
are fragile though when they're this small look at the details on this that is so cool
i don't know if i'm gonna cut that that one's actually pretty sweet
i'll leave that one aside but we'll start cutting and showing you as we go here
whoa all right i just stopped to show you this because inside this is a crystal pocket it's a
negative coral geode and majority of these are because they have open cavities inside but this
one has crystals on the inside and i i got excited because i was like oh my gosh black crystals but
the internals the coloring is black so it's causing these clear crystals because obviously
right there it's white these clear crystals look like black crystals and i think that is amazing
it looks so so cool that is that's an awesome piece this is one of my favorite ones so far
and we've had a lot of good ones but i'm gonna start going to town on a
ton of these and i will show you how they all turn out good and bad when we're done
so we cut through a lot of these and this is where we started we cut all the way through
and ended on these and i gotta say the last one was hands down my favorite it's got this
weird orange stuff inside once we clean that up that should come off it'll be blues whites
super super cool it was probably more bad in this one a lot of
ones that were just kind of gunky some that broke up a lot not a lot going on literally
just looks like clay you know like powder packed together a couple really nice ones but
this one is pretty cool i'd say out of let's see one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 11
12. i'd say five and a half we're good ones so a little less than 50 50. definitely excited to get
all these hosed off at the end especially this one too this one i think i think this will look
pretty sweet so one of the things that i learned from cutting all this agatized coral today is that
when you have pieces that are very light they end up being what we would call more duds and all of
these right here are heavy they're a lot heavier than the rest of them so i'm hoping that all these
are the higher quality pieces and this is the last bunch that we're going to cut before we clean the
rest off and look at them under uv light but the last piece that we're going to cut is this super
long coral finger and i'm gonna see if i can cut it in one straight line without any fracturing or
anything break off so that's the last thing we're gonna cut and uh yeah we'll see we'll see
i am going to move on to this last cut this super long piece it's straight enough to get a solid cut
but i think right in through here could fracture and then down in here could especially right there
it's gonna be it's gonna be interesting i'm gonna say i can't do it but we'll try
oh dang it that would have been sweet so close not really he got a little uh pushed on me there
got caught right in that thin part like i said but this piece is full it just looks kind of
funny that coloring in there that is really really beautiful i should show you that coloring up here
is a really really beautiful well kind of kind of got it but not really let's go hose these off
i know from the past that a lot of these are going to show up some really beautiful
details when we hit it with uv light this is one of the last ones we cut
it's like pure black i think this one is going to be magnificent under uv light this one i'm
going to set right here i bet that's a complete loss i bet there's nothing going on with that
but oh these are so fun to cut open so i'm going to leave all these right here and we're going
to wait for the sun to go down and then we'll come out with a uv light and we'll hit them and
we'll show off even more beautiful details for me it's going to be a few hours for you be a second
got my uv light here just going to see if it's working in my yard
yep so it is night out and we have our agatized coral being hit with one uv light up here on my
left and then in my right hand i have my big convoy c8 uv light right here some of these
are really really popping and i'm going to show you them like this guy right here
really really cool agate bands showing up
on the outside right here that is super cool this guy right here which is one of my favorites
really really cool details showing up right over here a lot of these a lot of these are uh this
this guy right here this is that one that had that pure black face
look at that isn't that just unbelievable this is completely black
with that little pocket right there and then the other side of it is
right here oh i do not get tired of looking at that that is so neat let's see if i can find some
more here that are really cool really majority of these are really really beautiful got those hidden
agate bands going on the inside and that one that i said i bet nothing's going on i was right
nothing's going on that's this piece right here this one this is really really beautiful
up in here so cool look at how detailed that those agate bands are
fantastic we'll show one more here this one this one's pretty special
so cool crazy those were not there before those beautiful agate band details
right along here so neat so i'm back inside and i gotta say
i do think those little agatized coral pieces are worth cutting open there is just more of a
chance of getting a few duds in there but when you put them under uv light a majority of them
are still amazing and i always have so much fun exposing all those hidden details inside that
agatized coral and i had a ton of fun putting this whole video together i hope you enjoyed it
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