Are these ugly agates beautiful inside?!
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- Are these ugly rocks beautiful inside?! Join along as I cut a bunch of agate nodules from Malawi open!
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How beautiful were those ugly nodules?!
Very beautiful agates
They are all so GORgeous!!😊 Thank you for sharing your beautiful rock's and your joyful laughter 😊
Gorgina!!❤
The second one looked like a coyote! I know where I'm going now! ETSY!
So beautiful ❤️
Every time I watch one of your videos, my face gets close to the screen to see the gems up close. So many could be turned into amazing pieces of jewelry. 🥰
I prefer the mystery box style of opening these with you and hearing your excitement
My 8 year old son and I watch your shows all the time. He calls your agate geodes, Ageodes. 😅 We love your show. It's very informative. We are from California and love looking for treasure rocks. Thank you! My son wants me to give you a bunch of hearts ❤❤❤❤❤
I'm sorry, THAT IS SO CUTTEEEE, u sound like a good parent AWWWW
Thank you for sharing with us. So many beauties ❤️
I love your videos so much. What an extraordinary way to live life, to find the hidden artwork of nature. So many surprises. Today I ordered an agate, I fell in love when I saw multiple colors. I will treasure it. It makes me feel like a tiny mouse in a grand universe. ❤❤
This was a beautiful collection. My favorite 3 have to be the ones you showed last, before you polished them, but they are all lovely. Thanks Agate Dad! ☺️
Wow, these are all so beautiful! Nature rocks! Thanks so much for sharing, Taylor!
Glad you like them!
That blue quartz is gorgeous
I absolutely love the whites and browns/oranges. Absolutely beautiful
So beautiful. Thanks for including us on the adventure.
Every cut is beautiful to me ❤
WOW! I Love those! SO lucky! Especially love the ones that look like their own living landscapes!
WOW! The first one! These are going to rock!
So so pretty! Alright you talked me into it I’ll buy more Malawi agates 😍
😂
the first one was a beautiful surprise!!!
Can't wait anymore
The very last one was my favorite. Looks like flowers in the middle.
Love just watching! 😍
The hoard is increasing! Some definite keepers 🤩
It definitely makes me happy
Those are beautiful! What a surprise! Remember I love the reveal.❤
I get more pleasure and satisfaction from watching your reactions to the newly cut stones than the videos themselves. I really LOVE to watch them esp on days when I’m feeling a bit down as it’s like watching an excited child opening their Xmas presents (no disrespect intended). Thank you so much for sharing this little bit of joy with the rest of the world…. It has a much bigger impact than you realise as your thrill, delight and passion with these agates is so infectious (and so is your laugh btw), and I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels this way! 🤗
I love watching you cut open the agates. I watch 4 or 5 of your videos every day. It just is a joyful experience to see all the beautiful treasures that are revealed.❤😊❤
Cut, cut, cut! Great cuts with only a couple of missed. Super polish on all of them. Thanks for sharing.
Nice to see new videos...I watch you so much I keep running out of new videos to watch of yours....thanks for your refreshing videos...God Bless You and yours....
What fun! Thanks for sharing with all of us!
Yep I’d keep the last also. YEA I’D SCREAM FOR AGOTS TOO…well you might as well know I drooled on my iPad!!
😮 Fantastic cutting session!❤ Malawi agates do not disappoint!😊🥰 Thanks for sharing and thanks for all your hard work, even though it looks like tons of fun!😁
Wow.. some of those are amazing , love when you cut and show polished thank you ❤
Yes that was an excellent batch! I love the bands! And the crystal, and the courts, and the husks, well I just love it all!
My face when I see you uploaded another video 🤗 My face while you are hatching agates 😮 My face when the video ends and you say bye 😢 Looking forward to the next batch of gorgeous rocks! 😅
The rainbow heart one !!!!! 😍😍😍
Amazingly lovely batch you got this time; it's hard to pick out a favorite. The first long one, and the smaller orange one polished up beautifully. The pale one with the orange dot in the middle was unusual. The smaller, defined orange dot surrounded by quartz looks like a tiny flower. Do you ever decided you just missed a pocket, then go back to cut a little more until the pocket is exposed?
This is so amazing I’m obsessed
Excellent work as always.
6:13 a slice of that one would make a GORGEOUS pendant for a necklace
9:52 😮that’s GORGEOUS!!
I'm holding my breath for the last one
Such beauties! Thanks for sharing 😊
Loved that real bad "Gangsters icecreme agates"Joke 😂❤
Do all rocks that you find have to have a window to possibly show what may be inside?
Not all of them
Some have, some not. But a window is just a hint. It may promise high qualitly, good banding, color and just be a dud. Or trick you saying there is nothing inside and you will get a perfect specimen. Or it fools you saying i will be green, white and blue but gets transparent brown.
Wow, thank you guys so much. I am so new.. Ive found sharks teeth and fossils, but I’ve always just tossed all the rocks aside and I’m so mad that I’ve been in Montana quite a few times and always just look for heart shaped rocks 🤎🫣 not knowing anything about the real beauty that can be inside a rock now I’m want to find out. Being from Southwest Florida I don’t have the absolutely gorgeous river rock but we do have fossilized coral so I’m gonna start looking for that. Thanks again for answering me back. I appreciate it.
Thank you.I had fun.They were all very all of them very interesting and beautiful
They all look amazing
💯 waiting ❤❤❤❤
I want to know that where did you get your rocks?
He bought them online just google them , “Malawi geodes” and the rough rock per pound will show up.
Malawi
How gorgeous! Although I was worried you were just going to zoom through the cutting (understandably, there were a lot), I just love hearing your reactions to the beauty you discover! Your pleased chortling makes my day. Thanks for a great batch! 💖
Old Disabled House Bound Dusty Rusty Rockhound here: Those are a beautiful lot of colorful nuggies! I dig those mirror finishes!
Love gemology! Wowzers, what a haul! STUNNING!❤
One of your best cutting videos! Thanks!
Wow, absolutely beautiful! Love watching these.
Wow!!! So beautiful ❤
Loving the content! They are all so stunning when you get them open, I'm partial to the ones with orange bands. Thanks for sharing your excitement with us! Sending love. ❤
I actually applauded the last one!
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did you see the fox face in the one cut?
Agates - more than just bands! Love them thank you for sharing.
I had to pause at 13:00 and tell you how hard I laughed when you cued the "falling in love" movie romance music for that 2nd to last agate.
they look like they have a flame on the inside. mysterious and beautiful.
That last one was so sweet!
Thank you. Loved all of them. Great results.
Wow! So beautiful! 😊
Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!
Absolute stunners. I'm going to have to get some of those.
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Thank you for putting in the “short site”with a click to this adventure…many times I rely on this….ps. Not one nodule ever ugly!! From a rock licker!!…..
God's creation is so beautiful. Love we you should these beauties.
They are magnificent love your videos
Ви, як завжди знаходите дуже гарні агати. Мені вони подобаються.
Beautiful agates
Pretty Rocks!!! 🥰🥰
They're not ugly once so ever ! Maybe I'm that weirdo rock hound that sees nodules as beautiful inside and out ! Great video taylor
I think I'm going to make a small Christmas and only decorate with agates. Agate Dad you should do this. If you did already I'd love to see pics.😊
The Depth in some of them is astonishing.
All I see are really pretty earrings
The last one looks like ears after cutting!
Gosh I do love Malawi Agates, definitely bought the 5lb bag of Malawi Babies from Gem Shop after I first saw you cut them!
Speaking of Gem Shop - get yourself a pound or two of their Montana Moss B Grades, I have been having a BLAST with them! They’re not the most colorful but gosh, the bands and the moss that creeps into some of them - they’re gorgeous! (I have two YT shorts posted showing them if you’re curious!)
Thanks for the tips!
I LOVE all the ones you put through the first polish batch ❤ ok, and #2 from the 3rd group
Thanks!
Thanks so much!!
One of the best yet, loved catching the premiere 🙌 ❤
So gorgeous
A beautiful batch!
so beautiful the first one wasand the one at 6....and at 8.36 quit nice and the one at 10.20, had been stunning if not two half ones, even the one at 13.45 was mostly with white/greyish colors, the pattern was beautiful, liked it a lot, and the inside with those colors at 15.08, gorgeous. some of the not so fab had some charm. and polished, the was shining like stars.
The one at 9:51 is my favorite so far.
Can you find any nice rocks in Scotland
Lots of agates in Scotland!
Wouldn't know where to look i stay in south west of Scotland BTW love your channel
@@AgateDad I live in South West of Scotland wouldn't know where to look although I have lots of strange stones lol BTW love the program.
Thanks!
WOW, thank you so much!!
I loved it all. Awesome to see.
I take it back, the one 14:12 is my favorite!
Save all the ones that break or look odd or whatever & set them inside big blocks of clear resin as paperweights & bookends.
I couldn't do that. If I had two halves, I'd HAVE to keep them together, even if one were better than the other. It'd be like separating kids 🙂
Love this 😂
15:08 !NICE!!
Definitely a surprise to me thdt these turned out so awesome,!
Aah Malawian but the best are in the Limpopo river allready tumbled in the winter when there is no water there near beit bridge
11:39 my bubbles
Really beautiful
Seeing your bare fingers so close to the saw gave me intense anxiety, but the rocks were beautiful!
They polished out so beautifully is it hard to learn to polish correctly?
I’m not new to rockhounding but I am very new to cutting/polishing, and I wondered why most RUclipsrs almost always cut their small pieces in half rather than try to get 2 or more cuts? I’m did my first few in one cut, mainly because that’s what I’d seen done but also because I was just getting used to my machine (tile saw with thin blade). I now make cuts depending on how I think it’ll be, and often make an off-centre cut then decide how many more to make. Maybe it’s all about what the end product will be. I enjoy your vids and you’re one of my favourite subscriptions. Cheers.
Agates are usually cut in halves in the center, biggest face or to avoid cracks/windows or best option for a nice face (parallax, banding, pseudomorphs or other structures etc.). Cutting slab after slab is frown upon the most serious agate collectors. Most hate slabs and some even don't like any damage like windows etc. on the back. Cut a nice specimen down to some slab is more popular in the US in order "to increase the value". In Europe or Asia it will cut down the value incredible. 50% and more. Slabs are more fragile, more expensive (you have to cut it two times and perhaps polish both sides), may loose color which is often based on optical depth etc. You will risk a valuable stone for perhaps more profit but often at cost of beauty. You only go for slabs when you try to improve a face when the quality is not really good and there is a chance for a better one. Or in the case of a flat and long body like you have with seam agates. And at last when your plan is to cut cabochons where you start with a slab.
When you go for the center you have the best chance of recut in case. Starting from the back may ruin your specimen because the banding usually opens up to the center and you will slice it down for nothing. Compare it with onions. Cut the in ther center will show several layer, but cut them on the edge will show just one or two wide and boring layers without "banding" The center may but rotten, but you don't see it. You waste time for cutting and lifetime of your blade.
Awesome!
What happened to your laughter and surprise at opening them? It’s the best part of these! I ended up just muting it and scrolling through to see the rocks and to avoid the music.
I have to invest in one of those saws