hey everybody welcome back for another video i'm really excited for this one because we're going
to be cutting some lake superior agates with my saw and these agates that i have here they're
not mine i got them from a friend i'm helping them cut them and i'm really excited because i
think they show some really good potential let me show you here's the batch he put a bunch of lines
with pencil on these to show me where he wants some of them cut right down the middle there
down the middle there yeah all these got little lines on them i think they show some really good
potential i'm really excited to see inside a lot of these and there are a couple that he wasn't too
sure if they are agates i believe it was this one and this one i'm not too sure given the texture of
this one i don't think it is an eager but we're gonna cut it a long way expose the most surface
area really with both these see what's going on inside those but yeah really excited to see inside
this all right so i got my ppe we got all the ingots got this uh it's filled up it's ready to go
all right the first one is going to be this
guy right here we're going to cut it right down where he wanted it
it's going to be an awesome awesome agate let me get it wet here
it's already got beautiful bands you can see that they're running
this way so when we cut it we're gonna expose that
all right that was pretty quick ready oh yeah that is beautiful oh that is sweet
oh he's gonna love that awesome next one we'll do this guy right here
cut it right down there i'm fairly certain this is a nodule but we'll just see let's do it
oh
i don't know if this one is an egg it actually now that we've cut it
it's not exactly sure the mineral but yeah there's a trickster i don't think that's an agate
trickster let's see what else we got got this nice nodule right here
got a nice little pocket right there all right let's cut that
yes oh that is spectacular oh that is really really cool
oh yes all right oh that makes me so happy that he's getting already a couple really beautiful
cuts out of these oh that's awesome
all right we'll do a bigger one here it's got this nice nodule limonite
oh i'm excited let's see how it goes
oh my oh my gosh get out of here get out of here oh my gosh oh yes
oh that is fun
oh my goodness look it okay just let me point something out to you here where we chose to
cut it i cut it exactly where he drew the line he just drew it by chance there's no
visible bands to tell you oh this is a good spot you know so i just followed where he cut
or where he put the line we cut this side of the orange and this side is not
what are the chances of that oh that is really cool i can see i got a little
bit right here i gotta clean up i'll do that here in a second but oh wow
man i can't stop looking at it wow okay cool we'll do a couple other ones here we got this guy
got a line on it and uh this one doesn't have a line so we'll do one as per where he wants
it and then i'm going to cut this one this way because that'll expose the most surface area
alrighty i haven't looked at either but i gotta say when i was cutting this
i'm pretty sure oh i thought that was an eye but you can see there's there's bands right there
yeah i'm excited for that one i'm gonna adjust the camera here so we can get a better light
all right i'll grab these haven't looked at them looking at them with you
get out of here oh my god i gotta clean that one up too but look at that
quartz water level banding every one of these is an absolute banger oh my gosh
oh that makes me so happy again no visible bands this is why i love nodules agates nodules
you don't know what's inside them you cut them they're absolutely surprising
oh my gosh this is
here's this one
straight oh actually do you see that right there
right in here there's bands coming across
yeah you can see it right here oh i bet if you polish that you can see right here too
some coming down in there we just caught a bad pocket but you can see them
oh look at that glow you can see them right there there i'll zoom in on it oh that is cool
unique that is unique i'm a big fan of unique awesome alrighty so i'm gonna cut these
maybes see how those turn out and uh then we'll move on to some of the we got four more decent
sized ones and then we got this big whopper i'm excited about that so yeah let's cut these guys
i'm gonna cut this one probably right here all the way around try to expose the most surface area
this guy same thing right along that spine
that's pretty unique definitely not a naked though i don't even know what that would be
my first gut instinct says chert some yellow chert but on the inside it's kind of
meh it's still cool kind of looks like a bird head or something yeah let's cut this guy
yeah i'm gonna go ahead and say no on the egg up front probably
probably jasper maybe shirt i don't know i'd probably lean more towards jasper with this one
yeah i could tell right away when these pieces start flailing off like that it's just yeah
i don't notice stuff like that too often with a good so yeah but let's go to let's see
oh boy
i just realized this one is an amethyst agate
and he wanted me to cut it like this and it's going to cut right
oh my gosh what do we do you can see the line right there on my finger so if we cut it like that
you can see where my fingers are at the little gap it's going to cut right to the bottom of the
amethyst and i have a hard enough time cutting and dealing with working amethyst because it's already
so beautiful so i hope he's not mad at me i'm going to make a a judgment call i'm going to cut
it along the spine instead and that way you can get two halves of the amethyst and hopefully the
amethyst runs through instead of just catching the bottom and maybe not getting anything
hopefully you can get two amethyst have so we're gonna we're gonna do that let's see how that goes
oh
one of the things i was afraid of is as i came through there
i would blow out some of the amethyst and a little bit got blown out
you can kind of see right there it's not as bad as the others so at least there's that but
i just didn't i wanted to catch that spine and i caught it perfectly
oh i'm actually actually nervous right now so i'm hoping that this has some nice bands
inside and there's nice amethyst going on um let's just uh let's take a peek
okay i don't feel as i don't feel as bad because the amethyst
um it it was so on the surface it was hardly anything so i mean if they ever polish this
and did like a kind of a round polish it would probably take the amethyst out because there's
hardly anything it's so minimal but the bands on this are absolutely amazing
i'm gonna have to talk him into letting me come here hun where he goes
where he finds these get out of here
that's amazing all right let's cut a couple more here
we got this guy i'm super excited about this one it's got the line right there
and then this guy right here so we'll do those two and then we got a couple more
already that went pretty quick let's check these guys out i'm so pumped for this one
i just love the limonite stained agates they hold a special place in my heart ready
i was actually thinking this was gonna be crazy but i gotta say if you polish down
you can see that it's just beneath the surface it's probably a millimeter down
and there's more going on in there you can see that light
thing going on in there there's more going on in there look at that
get that light in there see that there's more going on in there
just polish down to it you can expose more there's a little bit of bands right there
but yeah i'd say same on this side you could probably polish down more something hiding
in there you can polish into it you can have fun with that you need a polisher all right this one
i think this one's going to be awesome oh yes oh the white quartz with the white outline banding
oh that is neat yeah it's kind of that blue a bit of a blue hue to it
this one also back there you can see right there there's a there's more going on on that one too
man it's just like this is almost like water it's like a pool
oh that's neat this one kind of looks like like superior just saying but we got one more
this guy right here pencil mark right here so we'll do it along that kind of cut her in half
see what's going on there i just realized i didn't hit record anyways i haven't looked at it
yeah i mean you can see there's some very light banding going
on right there kind of hard to tell right there and there some up here
eh still nice as we were cutting this one this piece had a fracture i was kind of
worried about that it just blew out you can see bits of it right here that's all right though
all right we got one more this guy again i don't see any pencil marks so i'm going to cut it right
here kind of half it like that we'll just uh we'll cut her open we'll see what it looks like
so
oh it's got moss on it i bet you found that in a river that's just my guess i'm probably wrong
all right you guys let's hope it's a big banded beauty
oh it's an agate for sure it's a moss
seems to be the case with these big boys yeah you can see it right here running down
that's pretty though really it's got some cool stuff going on there
that's pretty neat
but yeah so that was the last one let's take a look at some of the uh what i would call
top shelfers from today's cuts all right this one love that sweet contrast banding absolute beauty
that'd be a fun one to polish really like this one that amethyst on the bottom there great banding
really really cool
love the dark blue with the white quartz oh absolutely beautiful
i'm kind of torn i don't know which one i like more
i love this one because we caught the one side of the red
sony so neat oh just spotted it there's the funnel
a lot of magic happen through that
yeah i think this one's probably my favorite i still gotta clean these up before i send them
back to their owner what i need my clean up is right there water level coming around quartz
absolutely beautiful and that right there that almost looks like a green band that is fantastic
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