hey what's up everybody today's the day we're finally going to be chiseling up this big host
rock that has this really beautiful geode agate inside it we're also going to be cutting it up
because i've decided to turn this into a really beautiful display piece we got to head on to the
garage to work on it though but before we do let me show you what we have planned for this so here
she is the beautiful lake superior agate geode in this 106 pound host rock that i hauled home
we're going to be chiseling it down and hopefully we can turn it into
a display piece i'm hoping for something about this big with a flat back or a flat bottom
and keeping this natural the reason why i'm going to keep this agate in the host rock because one
of you commented on the video where i found this saying if you cut it out chisel it out it's just
gonna be another agate and i got a lot of those but if you leave it in the hose rock for a nice
display piece it has a good story so that's what we're gonna do and i figured if i ever
want to i can chisel it out someday but we're gonna be making that beautiful display piece so
again hopefully about this big let's head out in the garage start working on this thing
yeah it's a little cold out here it was about 10 degrees Fahrenheit when we came out but
the heaters got it up to about 25 i'll let it run while i'm chiseling here we got the hammer and the
chisel hopefully both of these can withstand what we're gonna do to this thing let's get started
so good news is this is really coming apart bad news is is i just
knelt on this i looked down and this little bit of agate geode with looks like amethyst was uh right
under my kneecap i peeked over looked at the geode here and i thought i was i know it's a lot of
you know compression going on in this thing but i leaned over and i looked right here
that's loose this whole piece is loose right here the whole thing is just coming apart
i don't know if we're going to be able to save this bottom piece right here we might lose that
and i'm a little nervous i don't want to lose the geode or the display piece
but i mean look at that there's just fractures all over this thing
yeah that was gonna come out anyway you can see a fracture running right here oh sad
that's amethyst ah that was my fear what do you do with the 106 pound host rock with a
geode in it agate in there you know you can see the fractures running right here
all the way up and probably all the way through through these sides right here
oh well let me think about this for a minute and then i'll decide what to do
well folks after a very long time trying to figure out what to do with this
we got three options i can leave it as is not very nice display piece that i don't like at all
that is really awkward and still too big to really put anywhere option two we can cut this piece
because my saw should be able to cut that and i have again a very awkward display piece that
this doesn't sit like that facing out so you can see it because my saw won't be able to cut
that piece that's too big an option three is to move forward and try to follow
fracture lines kind of back here there's some underneath here a couple here there's one right
here try to get some of this back piece off and if we can we can go back to option two which is
more saw work turning it into the display that i envisioned in my head but the huge issue
is right here where my thumb is that's a fracture that runs up into the geode
it looks loose on this side but it goes right up into it you can see it right in between the bands
and into the amethyst right there so my fear is uh more chiseling
jostles this and this whole piece because there's a fracture that runs up here as well
it's gonna crack this whole piece off and we'll have two halves my fear i do not know
what to do i'm kind of leaning towards just going
for it i mean we've already come this far we've already broke a piece off
it's i mean right now i'm not able to turn into a display piece that i'm happy with so
i might as well go for it right chances are not in our favor we're probably going to ruin this
and uh yeah that's where i'm at so let's keep chiseling
so
oh you guys so
as i was banging away there i was hearing kind of a more
muffled you know clack clack and i looked and i could see
more crystals falling out and i looked and right in here right along my finger right there and
right there all the way down is a big fracture running right through the middle of the geode
i don't think there is any more hope that this whole thing is coming out together
so
i'm a little bummed out right now not gonna lie um
but as i went to turn my heater off i had an idea if we can get this piece off
like that and this piece off and somehow cut it we can see what's going in inside and we can make two
display pieces that can sit next to each other and kind of through this fracturing connect and see
what's going on inside we can try to save it you can still try to save it as a display piece but
yeah this fracture right here is just crazy so uh i'm oh yeah we'll just keep going here
i'm probably going to separate this intentionally from the back
ah
well for as crummy as a situation as uh that was this broke off
very well and these are the first time this is the first time these
bands have ever been seen by anyone ever they've been inside host rock forever
so that is that that's that side that's how deep it runs i was hoping
it could come back further but that's that and then uh
there's uh this piece right here obviously the same
so i don't see any loose fractures around this so
somehow i gotta work this stone down so that these two
can sit next to each other like so without breaking this one out all right so what i gotta do
is take this much of this bottom off and i don't feel comfortable doing it with the chisel because
it could fracture up and leave this piece completely useless so what i'm gonna try to do
is and i'll uh use scoopy here is a bit of a guiding stick
try to basically cut that down right there and then we'll make the bottoms as flat as we
possibly can so that those two display pieces can sit next to each other or be separated to see the
inside and uh yeah that's where we're at right now so let me get my sauce set up and get to cutting
well i've thrown up a few times and as i keep grabbing this more pieces keep falling off
so i'm not nervous at all but you can see the lines here we're going to basically cut it and
we're going to have to rotate it it's too big so it's going to be kind of a tricky cut on our
saw we're going to get very wet because i'm going to have to take the splash guard all the way off
at least worst case scenario we have one nice display piece okay
silver linings folks one nice display piece so we'll uh turn this on
see how it goes
oh my gosh oh so i have cut so many so many agates and rocks on this amazing saw but i
gotta say this is one of the most difficult cuts and hands down the most stressful cuts
got a really clean cut with turning it on there just a little bit of a weird overlap there but
let's see uh where it's sitting as far as display display pieces and how they may sit together
and how much more we need to come down so we still got a little ways to come down but at
least i have a better idea of where to go and uh it'll be a lot easier to cut through that one so
we'll do some more lines with a sharpie and uh hopefully be the last piece we cut
no
no no this is not what i wanted to happen
it was so close to connecting the two cup marks
and then i just feel this piece come loose in my hand oh my gosh
oh this is not what i wanted to happen
what a bummer
dang it
fractures everywhere inside this oh my goodness gracious
sh wheel i'm gonna finish cutting what i started
let's see how it all fit how it all fits together oh man this
is nuts this is not how i expected this whole thing to play out there
and that goes there three pieces that's what we're left with but all the bottoms are pretty
flat so i'm pretty happy with that that worked out i i'm gonna get all this cleaned up and
we're gonna head inside and i'll tell you what i think about all this we are back inside and it's
actually been a couple days i had to clear my head after that absolute train wreck but it's so funny
the comedic timing with the the the dump truck how'd your chiseling video go cue the dump truck
i think i finally figured out how to display this piece in a way that we can save it and i think
it looks pretty cool let me show you what i got planned so here are all the pieces and i got some
different footies to put on the bottom and i got a pretty good idea what i'm gonna do with it to make
it look nice but before we do that let me show you these crystals and the bands a little closer up
so one of the first pads i'm going to put on is this guy right here i'm just going to put
a single clear one on the bottom of this and uh these are pretty easy they're just
you know pull off and stick and this is like a non-slip kind of pad for this one it's going to
do the same thing these clear ones i'm just going to put them in a few random spots it's all flat so
should set very well
in theory so this bigger one's a little more awkward it's got this kind of natural
state on the bottom and then it jots down here which is why we have these
bigger pads so i'm going to put a couple of the clear ones on here
and a few the thicker ones just to make it sit even that matches those
so that is our geodetic display piece i know it's not exactly how i envisioned it and probably not
how a lot of you had hoped it would have went but it is what it is uh it's funny how like every step
of the way there's just catastrophic fractures and just it's a absolute train wreck but it is what
it is and like i've always said it's the cost of exploration you win some you lose some and it it's
kind of like a little bit of a loss but we kind of turned it around and i like the way that it looks
right now on the display so i'm happy with that and i know i no longer have my 106 pound host rock
with the geode agate in it but i still have my 122 pounds stomatolite so i'm happy with that if
i could go back and do anything differently with this whole project i would do everything the exact
same because i learned a good lesson sometimes it's okay to just leave things and even though
i enjoy taking a risk now and then it definitely did not go the way that i had planned but again is
what it is and i had a lot of fun and i hope you guys enjoyed it thank you so much for watching bye