I Waited 2 YEARS to Cut These Gems Open!

[@AgateAriel]

Thanks for watching! Make sure to subscribe! 🙌 Let me know if you’d be interested in an Etsy store where I sell these beauties! I want to share the wealth! 🥳

[@crittercritter2583]

I would personally like to buy some big agates for tumbling. Shipping costs are so expensive to Australia though

[@kwpalms]

Etsy store would be great!

[@ResonanceZ]

The range of emotions on the second agate! It was an emotional rollercoaster haha! I think it was still a fun reveal and just adds to fact that you never know what you'll get until you cut them!

[@AgateAriel]

Haha very true!

[@sandmaker]

I'm glad you got one in the end. Each cut built up the tension to the final reveal. Agaye eyes, with amethyst, so cool. If you think you cut them the wrong way, go back, turn them and see if the quarter rock is any better. Only one way to learn. Cut, cut, cut. Loved the show and you still have the best sound effects. Keep having fun and don't stop learning. See y'a next time. Lots of smiles heading your way.😊🤗😊😉😆😃😁😎😍🤩😜😛🤤🙃😺🙉👷‍♀️👸🙋‍♀️🙆‍♀️

[@AgateAriel]

Thank you so much! Yes just takes practice I suppose! Thanks for watching!

[@sandmaker]

@@AgateAriel in case I didn't make it clear, you were super!

[@lucy101]

I recently bought over three pounds of Lake Superior agates and they are my favorites. I got so many beautiful ones, several with purple and even blue and green in them.

[@AgateAriel]

What!! I love that!!

[@mikek4443]

I think they all looked beautiful, with each cut you unlock what has been hidden fr millions of years and each one is special. Excellent video.

[@steveegbert7429]

For the smaller ones like this, you will get better cuts with the thin sintered blade, the red one that came with the saw. It might be a little slower but gives smoother cuts. That last one made the so-so ones worth it. I won't tell you that you cut the banded agate wrong, because you already know. That's how we learn.

[@AgateAriel]

Thank you so much for the advice! I will have to use the red one next time!

[@troylarsen2454]

That first one you cut is a fragmented membrane. The one with the green on the husk is chlorite, I believe. Which is more common on full nodules. The moss agate, if you polish it, the details will really pop, and I bet you will see some small amethyst pockets. From my experience, amethyst is more common in mossy agates.

[@freshestavacado9195]

10:17 The last agate looks almost EXACTLY like Nile Red's pfp (his pfp is a really cool chemical reaction)

[@dinosaur4675]

Love your channel you are very natural and honest.

[@AgateAriel]

Thank you so much!

[@kwpalms]

Loved watching you cut these!

[@dawnwilkinson8717]

Your excitement is lovely to see and the last rock is beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

[@AgateAriel]

Glad you liked it! I think rocks are so cool! 😎

[@Gemstones_ByJenae]

“Agate noduley “ lol that needs to be on merch

[@kirbycraft1302]

I think a lot of people don't believe me, or the Geologist that studies LSA's, but I read an article where he states that he believes that only about 40% of all LSA's are actually banded. By the time I read it, I believed it, because someone else and I cut open a lot of agates and only like 2 had any bands. People say over and over, ohh that seems like a pretty low number, but most videos like this just proves it to me every time. That being said, I love agates that don't have banding. They are actually more beautiful than a lot of others. Thank you. Good video.

[@largent45]

That last one was super pretty! I love eye agates! They really are the best! So much prettier than the plain banded ones! I hope you get a chance to cut the rest without freezing to death! And wear a coat! You already have a cold! Ok om done playing mom! Lol!

[@greatnorthernviews3052]

It’s a hard thing to do you never know what way to cut them that first one I would have cut it the other way.😊

[@CacklingChick]

What a BLAST finally seeing the innards! Haha!! Good job!! CUT ON!! 😁👍🏻🪨⛏️

[@AgateAriel]

Thanks so much! It was a lot of fun!

[@eblake3617]

I think you deserve a "She Shed" for your channel! Seamwork founder documented her adventures creating hers for her sewing studio. Just just post a one year update video.

[@ArleneIaconelli-b7b]

Love your videos! I just started hounding 3mths ago and from day 1 was HOOKED! Your videos have taught me SO much Thank YOU!

[@DillonTM]

That last agate 😍

[@AgateAriel]

Right!! I was literally shaking with how amazing it was 😅

[@1erinjames]

I'm so excited and happy for you!!!

[@AgateAriel]

Thank you!! It was so fun to see what was inside after all that time!

[@zosothezephead837]

"Noduliest" 😂 You're brilliant Ariel 😘

[@Kötkylä]

What a beauty that last one 😊👍

[@AgateAriel]

Agreed! I was so surprised how amazing it was inside!

[@justyouraveragechad9354]

The saw noise got me lol

[@AgateAriel]

😆😆

[@MDQJ5]

good job ariel great finds 🤍

[@AgateAriel]

Thank you!

[@chrishince8947]

Cutting agates is like going on a blind date! Lol

[@RoryBrooksWulf-sz2rv]

Just got a few tonight no out a pounds worth can't wait to see how they come out!🎉

[@rickmirandaogata7347]

The last one was a beauty

[@AgateAriel]

Right!?

[@michaeltrudell9356]

I got into MN. Last weekend, but I just left FL. Today 😎

[@AgateAriel]

Oh exciting! What were you here for?

[@michaeltrudell9356]

@@AgateAriel I delivered a load in Iowa at the border and then crossed over to get my trailer washed out and to try to get a tag light 🙂

[@RoryBrooksWulf-sz2rv]

I used to cut pavers for a landscape crew in nj

[@Dehunski42]

Hi Ariel, awesome content, cool lookin' rocks for sure! Quick question, why did you go with a slab saw versus a wet tile saw? Also, what is the biggest rock you can cut on it or put another way, what is the widest slab you can make?

[@SOHANPATEL-yb2up]

I WANT ONE SO BAD

[@Louisianadenise]

You did well. It is hard to know exactly where to cut .

[@tyronescott3904]

Good to c u ❤

[@PL2-Coins]

Rule of thumb, never cut into a window

[@williamproctor4388]

Don’t feel bad. I have miss cut a few agates when I got my slab saw. In my excitement I just slapped them in the saw and started cutting.

[@AgateAriel]

Haha right I think I was overthinking 😅

[@nanaorihara9801]

The last agate honestly looked plain (at least to my untrained eyes. :p) compared to the others until it was opened up. So pretty!! ❤

[@AgateAriel]

I had a feeling about it and I’m glad I was right! But agreed! It was very unassuming!

[@patriciamckean4186]

I've hand polished and burnished. Never tried that. I now own a few more items (kingsley north, lortone slab machine, trim saw and my 2 barrel rotary tumbler. This year I got a sonic cleaner. I wanted a vibratory tumbler...sorry to say sold out.😢

[@Jademd83]

?- I'm looking to get a good wet tile saw for Christmas. I wanted to know what brand / type you think I should get based on your trial and errors. If you have any advice on other parts like blades, etc please let me know* Thank you😊

[@RoryBrooksWulf-sz2rv]

Great Vid!

[@drakemorley7204]

Wow girl what kind of slicer do you have the last one my god pretty😱

[@Oufy101]

Ok I have a question where would I buy a crap ton of grit for cheap because i am a novice rock hounder and tumbler so I don’t exactly know to much about where to buy it so could you help me please

[@spencergrant6269]

Cutting open finds is always exciting .. do you slab any of them an make pendants or jewelry ?

[@RoryBrooksWulf-sz2rv]

Probly better the way you did it length wise creates better panor amic setting

[@DarrellHensley-u6x]

I think you're awesome! I love rocks. I'm 62 and happily married and I love your explanations of your rocks. I also have a lot of rocks. I would love to show them to you to see what you think. I built a house in selah Washington and when I dug it out for my basement I found a pallets full of rocks, geodes, jasper's carnelians, and other rocks. I don't know what to do with them. Let me know please

[@RoryBrooksWulf-sz2rv]

Temp maybe issue for softer rocks warm them up first

[@Orangatangerine]

Lol this was a fun one

[@RoryBrooksWulf-sz2rv]

Wife and i get ours at cape may NJ NJ beach and fort indiantown Gap pa she loves rocks one time we bought jome a car full bottomed out a few times even tied our jimmy to yank large ones out of the river lol

[@surreygoldprospector576]

Cool rocks! I like that last one. :o)

[@AgateAriel]

Right?! That one was so amazing!!

[@RoryBrooksWulf-sz2rv]

Your doing good just depends on the hardness and speed of the blade

[@daveloo8863]

Saved the best for last

[@RoryBrooksWulf-sz2rv]

Hardness of the rock

[@ryannheninger1602]

Anyone note the frost on her fingers from the spray!!!?

[@BROJOHNSON]

ELLO GOVANAW!

[@thatevilducky]

I would have cut that one the other direction, to crosscut the bands, still pretty though

[@AgateAriel]

I know I’m so bummed!

[@thatevilducky]

@@AgateAriel see if you can cut the halves in half?

[@coffeebees]

If you feel like you mis-cut it, couldn't you just cut it the other way too and get 4 smaller pieces? Or would they be too small?

[@vtx2023]

most of them were duds imo but 10:35 is definitely a keeper. thumbs up 👍

[@AgateAriel]

Yes I’m glad for the last one for sure! Definitely the best of all of them!

[@MohammedHamzaKhan-s9x]

I'm from Pakistan and I have same stone how I can send you pictures

[@cherylpilcher6960]

Amazing video

[@RoryBrooksWulf-sz2rv]

Maybe gentle force to the blade let the blade do the work dont force just feel it out

[@tyronescott3904]

Lord jesus help him as you have heald me and my famley manny times.❤

[@hazeibarra1953]

You cut the second & third ones the wrong way :( you are going with the direction of bands and you should be cutting more across them.

[@RoryBrooksWulf-sz2rv]

Bout a lbs worth lol

[@makkyd123]

annoying for sure

[@drakemorley7204]

Wow girl what kind of slicer do you have the last one my god pretty😱

[@drakemorley7204]

Wow girl what kind of slicer do you have the last one my god pretty😱