Some of the fractured ones are so pretty that they are still desirable. Perhaps they could be offered in small batches of 'unpolished, wonky & broken ones' at a bargain price, maybe with some materials for hand polishing them, to bring out the best in them?
I ran across your channel a few days ago and I have been binge watching. Never in my 73 years did I ever think I would be interested in someone cutting apart rocks. I never expected the beauty that hides inside rocks. Thank you for showing me just how beautiful mother nature can be. The very best part of your video's is the joy that come from you when you open a rock and the inside is just beyond beautiful. Thank you again for making these video's. Don't stop. You are showing people like me how wonderful Mother Nature can be.
As a colorblind person I love when you talk about the colors that are inside. It helps me better understand what I’m seeing. No pressure to include this in your videos but I’m just pointing out the fact that I enjoyed it.
Cold wet miserable day today in the UK so I've been binge watching your vids. I love the way you always say "we" as in "we found or we cut " . Makes us feel realy included . Love the channel it gets better and better so keep going 😊
I’m 78! One of those people that is always picking up rocks!!! Have a lot of Christal’s also!! Love your show!! Passed it on to my neighbors grand son that has a love for rocks also!! He is 6…
I am 76 and have always picked up rocks wherever I went. They always look pretty when wet. There should be a place where we can bring then and have them cut. Now that would be fun. I also have crystals and gems. Love them all.
The thing I love about your channel is the level of genuine excitement when you find something cool. And that you don’t lie about what you find. I cannot believe that those fake channels who find gold and precious “glass”.
You have to be kinda careful with that, sometimes the composition can be toxic with water! But you can test that so maybe! Or non toxic branish with it
No part of a crystal is junk, I would prefer the word add smooth Stones are preferred for aquarium tanks not sharp jagged bits that could hurt either the fish could have the fish foraging for food or the person who is going to clean out the tank eventually. Just saying.
Those are some beautiful pieces. Some of those slabs would make beautiful jewelry. I’m 75, but would love to be able to do that. My grandson has been interested in this stuff since he was 5. He’s 18 now, how I would love doing this with him. He will be starting college this fall. He’s mom makes jewelry and I can see how adventurous this would be for both of them. However, life !
It's so interesting to me that there were so many that show orange and yellow as the main colors. I think about Australia and its enormous desert, and what is the palette? Just like those agates! You have a bit of Uluru right there in your hands. How amazing is that? Man, I'd love to do what you are doing! 😉😄
Great video ... I especially love the different colors from around the world ....I am so used to, basically, the colors of the Lake Superior agates that I forget there are agates from all around the world that are unique to their localities. Thanks for sharing these lovely stones ... Happy hunting !
My grandson ani I love your show! Today we placed our first order from your shop and KJ said to get him a gift from your shop for each birthday, he is only 8 now, haha. We have buckets of rocks from our travels…no idea what they are, just liked the color/shape.
You look kinda tired but still pull us into your love and excitement in those beautiful agates! Thank you sharing your time and effort with us! Your videos make me smile every single time!
22:57 Hard to pick my favourite from this set, but I think I love this one & the next one with the corner of water level banding in the Agate & the landscape one as well. I’d have so much fun making jewellery from your agates. So glad my country provided you with some really beautiful pieces & challenges… with no deadly critters tucked away for a surprise 😁 🐍🕷️ Now I’ll have to seek out where I can actually go rock hunting for my own 😊
Those are some amazing agates. I absolutely love the ocean scene with the clouds and the black and red never seen an agate like it nor the comet ones. That hot orange that you also kept was absolutely stunning. And the one where you could see all the way inside through the quartz so awesome.
Wow, these are great reveals. I would love to have some slicces of those that fractured and incirporate them into some resin to preserve the beauty, since there isnt a way to save them from falling apart. Thank you so much for inviting us into your workshop.💐
I'm a jewelry designer and while they're beautiful as collectibles for display, I can't help but think about how they would look as pieces of jewelry. I look and designs just run through my mind's eye. Those are wonderful stones.
Love the agates, beautiful. I have a moss agate my parents picked up in Montana many years ago. It's one of my favorite positions. The way the dark moss areas are shaped and the soft white cloud like area that covers half the surface, combined gives the impression of African planes at twilight.
I love quartz. All kinds of variations. I live in Australia and there's this place in Qld, up Mt Tambourine, where you can go fossicking for Thunderbird eggs.
I live in Australia too. Back in 1978 my family travelled up through Queensland and stopped at the thunder egg place. I’ve still got three thunder eggs that I tucked away and haven’t had cut yet. These videos are inspiring me to find someone who can cut them open. Fingers crossed they are lovely inside 🤞
BEAUTIFUL, ALL OF THEM!!! ~thank you for sharing~ please dont stop doing this ~ I love watching you cut open all your rocks~ i never knew this existed and im blown away with all their beauty~ just WOW!!!
I love the opening of the agates, and none are a disappointment to me. I see through the eyes of a jewelry artist. I know the disappointing cuts look like failures to you: I see beautiful beads and cabochons made from the broken fractured pieces, the quartz filled centers, the cuts that only have the odd quartz spots in them. Your show is calming to me, your laugh is no problem because i do it too. Keep cutting!
That first cut was absolutely my favorite, by far. The "comet" cut is my 2nd favorite and the one with water-level bands inside the quartz comes in 3rd. All are beautiful, though. Thanks for sharing!
You can use superglue (CA glue) and accelerator to put the broken ones back together. If you keep them tight when it hardens there will be minimal bubbles which can hide the cracks fairly well. You can even polish it. 👍🏻
Your channel has captured my attention for sure. My father was teaching me lapidary when we lived in Japan in the early 1960s. I really liked doing it. My favorite of these stones is the one you call the ghost. Such pretty color.
Love this, my danish grand dad vas a jeweler, and love to use agat in his work. I Have foure 18k goldring with agat inley...love it... greetings from Norway
I love the ones even with fractures. I don't consider them imperfect but just part of the natural beauty of the rock. I'm not an expert, but I enjoy them for what they are. It's nature's art, and that's its beauty. The reveal is always my favorite part. We don't have the equipment to cut open rocks, but we use a tumbler.
I love rocks. We are always hiking along the river and I’m always collecting .. I was telling my husband he needs to get a table saw so he can cut the rocks I find lol
I went out to the shore of LS three times this week. Only small pebbles were visible but I practiced identifying them. I found a very pretty LS Agate that I found a few years ago. The bands only became visible once I tumbled it.
I loved that you exposed the lil nodule that you missed in the cutting process my curiosity was saying what's in there thanks for satisfying my curiosity as always agate dad 23:37
The white skinned Agate Creek ones are my favourites. The pink and white colours in them are always glorious. Your stones are perfect examples of the range of Agate Creek agates.
No se si me entiendan pero veo muy pocos like para nuestro friend, COMEEEEEE ON, GIVE HER LIKE GOD BLESS YOU AMÉRICA, saludos desde Cuba la Isla cárcel
When I cut open a keepable Agate, for wire wrapping and it has a small crack, I fill the crack with Suger Glue, grind it off smooth, and the Super Glue will take a polish and walla, a good specimen to wire wrap.
I am an absolute newbie, a seasoned mineral specimen dealer and quartz hunter. I am in the process of restoring a small slab saw and can learn a lot from you.
The one that you are keeping with the water levels underneath the quartz reminds me of the ceramic chicken pots for keeping eggs.😊Thanks for all the hardwork Taylor.
Oh my goodness. So beautiful. Personally my favorites are the last one cut open and the one you said wasn't worth polishing. I just love the rich dark purple-blues and deep rose colors. Amazing.
Wonderful! Being honest, I stopped watching polishing cause I enjoy the suspense and awe of the cut/reveal.😊 These are all just lovely. Keep up the great work. Have a blessed day.
Thanks for watching, you rock! 🪨
You Rock!!! We Love your videos!
It's a gneiss day, don't take it for granite!
Well I rock because Agate the moves 😎
Such beautiful colours particularly this batch.
Some of the fractured ones are so pretty that they are still desirable. Perhaps they could be offered in small batches of 'unpolished, wonky & broken ones' at a bargain price, maybe with some materials for hand polishing them, to bring out the best in them?
I ran across your channel a few days ago and I have been binge watching. Never in my 73 years did I ever think I would be interested in someone cutting apart rocks. I never expected the beauty that hides inside rocks. Thank you for showing me just how beautiful mother nature can be. The very best part of your video's is the joy that come from you when you open a rock and the inside is just beyond beautiful. Thank you again for making these video's. Don't stop. You are showing people like me how wonderful Mother Nature can be.
You’re so kind, I’m so glad our paths crossed and you get to see this passion :) it’s so wonderful!
I can't stop binge watching it's awesome😊
He is fun to watch, isn't he?
Love all Tello me if is posible to get some of your leftobers?
If so, Tell me how
As a colorblind person I love when you talk about the colors that are inside. It helps me better understand what I’m seeing. No pressure to include this in your videos but I’m just pointing out the fact that I enjoyed it.
Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: Those are stupendous agates! How did you procure them? Inquiring minds want to know!
Cold wet miserable day today in the UK so I've been binge watching your vids. I love the way you always say "we" as in "we found or we cut " . Makes us feel realy included . Love the channel it gets better and better so keep going 😊
I’m 78! One of those people that is always picking up rocks!!! Have a lot of Christal’s also!! Love your show!! Passed it on to my neighbors grand son that has a love for rocks also!! He is 6…
I am 76 and have always picked up rocks wherever I went. They always look pretty when wet. There should be a place where we can bring then and have them cut. Now that would be fun. I also have crystals and gems. Love them all.
Your videos have inspired my soon to be 8yr old niece to be a rock hound!! Looking to get her first tumbler!! These rocks are beautiful.
That is awesome!!! Tell her to keep looking down!
The thing I love about your channel is the level of genuine excitement when you find something cool. And that you don’t lie about what you find. I cannot believe that those fake channels who find gold and precious “glass”.
A simple suggestion: sell the fractured ones, and the Junk ones as decoration for fish tanks
I’d definitely put them in my fish tank!!
You have to be kinda careful with that, sometimes the composition can be toxic with water! But you can test that so maybe! Or non toxic branish with it
No part of a crystal is junk, I would prefer the word add smooth Stones are preferred for aquarium tanks not sharp jagged bits that could hurt either the fish could have the fish foraging for food or the person who is going to clean out the tank eventually. Just saying.
That's a great idea!!!
totally agree why didn't I think of that. If they are as you say junk they will be beautiful in fish tanks.
Beautiful agates.
Yes they are!
Those are some beautiful pieces. Some of those slabs would make beautiful jewelry. I’m 75, but would love to be able to do that. My grandson has been interested in this stuff since he was 5. He’s 18 now, how I would love doing this with him. He will be starting college this fall. He’s mom makes jewelry and I can see how adventurous this would be for both of them. However, life !
I love the reveal laugh when opening the real stunners. Like pure joy!
And I always smile with him. Gosh they are all so beautiful
It's so interesting to me that there were so many that show orange and yellow as the main colors. I think about Australia and its enormous desert, and what is the palette? Just like those agates! You have a bit of Uluru right there in your hands. How amazing is that? Man, I'd love to do what you are doing! 😉😄
Great video ... I especially love the different colors from around the world ....I am so used to, basically, the colors of the Lake Superior agates that I forget there are agates from all around the world that are unique to their localities. Thanks for sharing these lovely stones ... Happy hunting !
I never met a rock I didn't like; most of them, I absolutely love!
Thank you for sharing these amazing Agates!
My grandson ani I love your show! Today we placed our first order from your shop and KJ said to get him a gift from your shop for each birthday, he is only 8 now, haha. We have buckets of rocks from our travels…no idea what they are, just liked the color/shape.
You look kinda tired but still pull us into your love and excitement in those beautiful agates! Thank you sharing your time and effort with us! Your videos make me smile every single time!
22:57 Hard to pick my favourite from this set, but I think I love this one & the next one with the corner of water level banding in the Agate & the landscape one as well. I’d have so much fun making jewellery from your agates. So glad my country provided you with some really beautiful pieces & challenges… with no deadly critters tucked away for a surprise 😁 🐍🕷️ Now I’ll have to seek out where I can actually go rock hunting for my own 😊
What a beautiful batch of agates! Most of them are super studs! So AWESOME! Gorgeous job polishing them....as always! 😊
What a beautiful set of agates ❤. I just can't pick one as my favorite. That feathered agate reminds me of flames; so unique. Great job ☺️
Yes, a lot of beauties.
Those are some amazing agates. I absolutely love the ocean scene with the clouds and the black and red never seen an agate like it nor the comet ones. That hot orange that you also kept was absolutely stunning. And the one where you could see all the way inside through the quartz so awesome.
Those are some OLD agates if from Australia! I hope I get to see these before they get posted on Etsy! Im gonna miss the 9am live😬
They’re on Etsy lol
Oh I better go see!! Thank you!
@@AgateDad I got some REALLY SWEEEEEET agates on your Etsy! (it pays to stay awake 24hrs sometimes😂) Thank you!🙌🥰
@@JulesUS8386thank you soooo much!! You’re going to love them!
@@AgateDad I bet I do love these agates! They’re beautiful online! When I get the agates delivered, they are always much prettier in person♥️
Your excitement is really sweet to hear!! I'm smiling and giggling right along with you!! ❤
Gosh the "ghost looking one" at 22:54 tickles my goth-girl heart. I love the white-red with dark shadows. A nice vampire esthetic ♡
The third one you cut, you used the perfect word to describe it. "Premium"! That one alone, made this video for me. Nice one matey. 😎😁
Wow, these are great reveals. I would love to have some slicces of those that fractured and incirporate them into some resin to preserve the beauty, since there isnt a way to save them from falling apart. Thank you so much for inviting us into your workshop.💐
I can't even pick a favorite! They are all gorgeous! Enjoy! 😊
Every agate different and better than the other. The best is the reveal!! It is like a treasure!! I enjoy it!!!
Honestly I think the fractured one at 7:12 is gorgeous, the sort of circular way it fractured around the orange centre makes it look like a flower 😃
I'm a jewelry designer and while they're beautiful as collectibles for display, I can't help but think about how they would look as pieces of jewelry. I look and designs just run through my mind's eye. Those are wonderful stones.
Love the agates, beautiful. I have a moss agate my parents picked up in Montana many years ago. It's one of my favorite positions. The way the dark moss areas are shaped and the soft white cloud like area that covers half the surface, combined gives the impression of African planes at twilight.
The Gobbstopper comment was everything!!! Lol Beautiful rocks.
They are all so beautiful I'm amazed to see a simple rock, can look so incredibly beautiful
I love quartz. All kinds of variations. I live in Australia and there's this place in Qld, up Mt Tambourine, where you can go fossicking for Thunderbird eggs.
I live in Australia too. Back in 1978 my family travelled up through Queensland and stopped at the thunder egg place. I’ve still got three thunder eggs that I tucked away and haven’t had cut yet. These videos are inspiring me to find someone who can cut them open. Fingers crossed they are lovely inside 🤞
I think every single one is beautiful! The one you find boring, I just want to paint on. Gorgeous jewels!
I see faces and scapes in everything. So amazing. I missed my calling! Truly captivating! I subscribed for the first and last time. 🥰❤️❤️🫶🏻
BEAUTIFUL, ALL OF THEM!!! ~thank you for sharing~ please dont stop doing this ~ I love watching you cut open all your rocks~ i never knew this existed and im blown away with all their beauty~ just WOW!!!
Gotta love the branding....reminds me of the beautiful Tree Band looking agates i used to find at lake Superior/ Duluth area.
I love the opening of the agates, and none are a disappointment to me. I see through the eyes of a jewelry artist. I know the disappointing cuts look like failures to you: I see beautiful beads and cabochons made from the broken fractured pieces, the quartz filled centers, the cuts that only have the odd quartz spots in them. Your show is calming to me, your laugh is no problem because i do it too. Keep cutting!
That first cut was absolutely my favorite, by far. The "comet" cut is my 2nd favorite and the one with water-level bands inside the quartz comes in 3rd. All are beautiful, though. Thanks for sharing!
That thin one had some really unusual coloring!🤩
Those are some very beautiful rocks😊👍💕
They are!
This material is stellar. I have several pieces of different pastel colors which also set them apart from the Kentucky agates :)
You can use superglue (CA glue) and accelerator to put the broken ones back together. If you keep them tight when it hardens there will be minimal bubbles which can hide the cracks fairly well. You can even polish it. 👍🏻
Your channel has captured my attention for sure. My father was teaching me lapidary when we lived in Japan in the early 1960s. I really liked doing it. My favorite of these stones is the one you call the ghost. Such pretty color.
One man's "junk" is another woman's treasure. I would buy the fractured red one for my amateur rock collection.
I love the jelly bean as well. Can I ask you where do you get your rocks and how do you know they are going to be an agate?
I nicknamed the water scene yellow rock “ the Bob Ross” agate ! I love your reactions Taylor !! You’re passionate about your trade and it shows
DANG GORGEOUS
Thank you for your passion!
Love this, my danish grand dad vas a jeweler, and love to use agat in his work. I Have foure 18k goldring with agat inley...love it... greetings from Norway
They take your breath away!
I wire wrap various stones and shells. Love the 1st red, and blue/red gobstopper. That final 1 is pretty.
I love the ones even with fractures. I don't consider them imperfect but just part of the natural beauty of the rock. I'm not an expert, but I enjoy them for what they are. It's nature's art, and that's its beauty. The reveal is always my favorite part. We don't have the equipment to cut open rocks, but we use a tumbler.
Stunning agates! 😊
Fantastic! The agates are so beautiful, and I learn so much watching your videos.
I love rocks. We are always hiking along the river and I’m always collecting .. I was telling my husband he needs to get a table saw so he can cut the rocks I find lol
I went out to the shore of LS three times this week. Only small pebbles were visible but I practiced identifying them. I found a very pretty LS Agate that I found a few years ago. The bands only became visible once I tumbled it.
I loved that you exposed the lil nodule that you missed in the cutting process my curiosity was saying what's in there thanks for satisfying my curiosity as always agate dad 23:37
10:03 I immediately thought meteor when I saw this one. So cool
We love your videos. Greetings from Spain.
Oh wow the one with the red and gray white banding at 22:30 looks similar to tear drops WOW
First one a beauty. Surprise! I had a big smile when I saw that too. lol
Love the orange in that second one!🧡
Very beautiful all of them
The white skinned Agate Creek ones are my favourites. The pink and white colours in them are always glorious. Your stones are perfect examples of the range of Agate Creek agates.
Absolutely beautiful agates.. amazing what is on the inside. Thanks for sharing your rocks 🪨 with us all ❤️
I really like watching your channel. Who would have thought all those weird looking rocks are so beautiful inside. Nature is amazing ❤
10:19….. how perfect to see that today…. Looks like a colorful jellybean ❤
I think it looks like a shooting star its so nice
No se si me entiendan pero veo muy pocos like para nuestro friend, COMEEEEEE ON, GIVE HER LIKE GOD BLESS YOU AMÉRICA, saludos desde Cuba la Isla cárcel
It’s a great hobby or business you have there. Always something beautiful to expose. 🤩
When I cut open a keepable Agate, for wire wrapping and it has a small crack, I fill the crack with Suger Glue, grind it off smooth, and the Super Glue will take a polish and walla, a good specimen to wire wrap.
I think this is the most wholesome channel on RUclips.
You’re too kind :)
You are a talented gems cutter, yet a nice and humble great person!
My favorite is the water scene with the clouds! Absolutely beautiful rocks. Thanks for sharing.
The cutting is my favorite part!!!
Oh so beautiful! The orange & green are so pretty. ❤
I really liked the one that was red and fractured. I think it's beautiful.
I am an absolute newbie, a seasoned mineral specimen dealer and quartz hunter. I am in the process of restoring a small slab saw and can learn a lot from you.
Thanks!
Thanks so much!!
Thank you for sharing an amazing video see you next time.✌️☺️
Theses look very similar to agates from Botswana and Mozambique still absolutely stunning and beautiful
When you opened the 3rd one i actually swore and number 5 was beautiful
At 8:05 that would make a gorgeous pair of drop earrings, my favorite stone si far
The one that you are keeping with the water levels underneath the quartz reminds me of the ceramic chicken pots for keeping eggs.😊Thanks for all the hardwork Taylor.
I would love to buy fracture ones! I like that nature decided to do and few pieces are so pretty, just to display them as decoration is cool
Amazing SCORE!! Congratulations. Those are all so cool!!
The 3rd one...sooo sweet. I am a rockhound from MN as well. I love watching your videos.
Cut, cut, cut! I liked them all what great colors you exposed. You put a really good polish on them all. See y'a next time.😊
IN person suggested that the fractured rock could be sold to decorate the fish tanks. I totally agree. Try it. I bet they will sell like hot cakes.
The color contrast in that 3rd one!😍
What a bunch of beautiful stones! That first one was fantastic! Love the reveal!
Oh my goodness. So beautiful. Personally my favorites are the last one cut open and the one you said wasn't worth polishing. I just love the rich dark purple-blues and deep rose colors. Amazing.
The first five are outstanding, amazing colors, patterns.
The first two was my favorite. Love watching. Relaxing. Great job 👏
10:40 i gasped at this rock. Like how can that be so beautiful? It’s really what’s on the inside huh. 😂
Wonderful! Being honest, I stopped watching polishing cause I enjoy the suspense and awe of the cut/reveal.😊
These are all just lovely. Keep up the great work.
Have a blessed day.
Oh my goodness that one that had quarts water level banding and wow the depth in that just amazing
No, YOU rock!
Thanks for these videos. They help lower my blood pressure.
I have been watching you for awhile now and I love watching your reaction to to some of your cuts! I'm a real fan of yours!!!
That beautiful teardrop agate!!!