Cutting Rocks with My Large Rock Saw

[@Ken_G.]

That 2nd one, just wow. I think those were my favorite microscope shots you've done so far. Everything was great, as usual. That orbicular (I like the word "oolitic") was super cool. Do you think those were pre existing columns like stalactites and then the water line agate formed around them?

[@MontanaRockMom]

I think you are right! I was just reading on how agate can form around existing stalactites and take their formation!

[@alexm9937]

My first thought about the circles was tube agate formations... it looked there might've been tiny holes in the centers? That's where a tube would be, basically a rod inclusion that agate forms around, then sometimes dissolves to leave a hollow tube. Eyes are perfect little spheres or hemispheres that agate forms around.. the stalactite explanation sounds possible too.. not an expert here! ☺

[@mrfxm55]

For your readers. Usually when selling slabs on the internet the going size is 5X5 inches and 1/4 inch thickness. The way something is priced is by color or color combinations. Primary colors are the most desirable. But begining with 3 different colors and they are the primary ones that make a desirable pattern. You could begin at $10 for a 5X5 slab. Just to give you baseline on pricing. Thanks MRM for your tips on orientation of cutting and the use of a Marker to plan your cuts and get the best out of your stone.😍😎😁

[@kellyharper367]

Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: stunning! I want laminated flooring with those designs!

[@nikkihoo627]

Wowzers!!! They are all beauties but that one with the bright yellow center 💛 ✨️ Thanks for sharing another feeding! 😉🦉💜🪨

[@janicehenry8172]

Haven't seen a bad piece!!!!!😲💗💗💗💖💖💖🤗 Absolutely gorgeous I love em All

[@joanthorington3593]

Unbelievable photos under the microscope!! Truly amazing "abstract" paintings!

[@brucedymock6635]

Loved the first thought it was awesome and then you cut the second unbelievable under the microscope then the agate you have fantastic stuff to find thanks for sharing

[@MsSandraCGL]

That second rock, AMAZING, that is one of the most beautiful jaspers I have ever seen.

[@debbiewilson6806]

Oh Kimberly they are all so stunning! You make us drool. We had 8" or better of snow last night so it will be a while before we can make a trip to the river. Oh well, we needed the moisture.

[@MontanaRockMom]

We are in the middle of 14 to 24 inches with 45mph winds!

[@paullanier8280]

Thanks for the hard work to make such beautiful pics !!!

[@RonHei]

I am just blown away with the quality of rocks you have in every single one of your videos. I can’t seem to get enough. You make me want to move back to Cody, Wyoming so I can search the area like I used to. It won’t happen though so thank you so much for what you do. Amazing!

[@joanthorington3593]

So glad you are living your dream sweet girl, don't stop!

[@DeborahDuval-tx6up]

The photos of the first jasper would make fabulous wallpaper design!

[@patriciamckean4186]

Just love seeing all the beauty hidden inside.

[@bigmoney3405]

WOW! Cant wait for next time! Amazing...........

[@mariemoss2475]

Wow wow wow, how beautiful 👍💞💞💞

[@margaretdavenport1703]

So beautiful all of them thanks for sharing hugs so nice to see woman ROCKHOUNDS😅

[@MontanaRockMom]

Yes it is😉 Thanks for watching

[@wojciechtreffler2204]

👋 Beautiful stones ! but the slabs are wonders 😍. Congratulations & greetings from PL 😆 👋

[@williamscoggin1509]

Had to come back and watch this one again. I think you find some of the prettiest agates and rocks on KZbin. 👍🏻

[@beckysmith3660]

That second rock looked like patchwork. Beautiful rocks. Loved them all!

[@grandparocky]

Those are the best cuts I have seen on the internet all month. You are truly blessed to have that river at your disposal! Iam in awe of your Montana Agates!

[@MontanaRockMom]

Thanks Dennis! I am in awe of them too 😳🤩🤯🤯🤯

[@craig5207]

Great cuts!!! Thanks for sharing the fun! That's what's so great about rocks. They just keep giving. Your jazzed when you find them, your jazzed when you cut them, your jazzed when you polish them, and your jazzed when you display them or make them into jewelry or other things. Natures gift that just keeps giving.

[@jimlancaster6120]

Drogon gets to eat means we get a treat! Great close up shots just amazing!

[@patriciabock4299]

Love the introduction ! LOL

[@jamesblondeau1029]

Thanks for the great video and the views of the close ups under the microscope. Fantastic stuff. You could make some beautiful screen shots for your phone or a computer wall paper with some of those photos. And the water line you cut on the line was amazing with the orbiculares and the teepee canyon agate wow such incredible colour especially that yellow. Thanks for taking the time to do the video for us Kim. Your awesome.

[@mariehillard1742]

When you cutting stone, I get very excited. No disappointments here! These are works of mother natures art. Stunningly beautiful! Thank you.

[@atuuschaaw]

Rockin' good show! It always amazes me the number of universes within the rocks, frozen in time.♥

[@lindaleehulsey3167]

PURE ROCK 🎨 in the 🏆🏆🏆🏆 📹🎥 🔬camera 📷 ❤💙💜💖 marvelously narrated MRM 💋😘😗

[@nicolagraynewzealandrockho8976]

Fantastic video, love the beautiful cuts.

[@deniseview4253]

Oh wow! Gorgeous stones. I see why the one agate is your favorite.

[@ronniehodge5799]

the last one you cut would make a beautiful Arrowhead. beautiful areas

[@wyodino6245]

You are such a great rock "picker", MRM! Thank you for sharing your rock hounding love with us. We are buried in snow so it's a great cabin fever remedy to watch you slab your finds. 💙

[@mandimal]

🤩 Wow, those microscopic pictures were incredible! Some reminded me of pictures from space of stars and the universe. Really stunning! I think the Teepee Canyon was my favorite!

[@MontanaRockMom]

Teepee canyons are unbelievable fortification agates.

[@moonstruck581]

Agate from Tepee Canyon my absolute favorite 🤩

[@hockeyrace]

🤯🤯🤯 Outstanding Rocks! Awesome episode 🤩 I love your channel. Every episode is great. Can’t wait for you to go rockhound with chopper when the weather gets nice. Thanks so much for sharing! Stay Crystal 💫 Mari

[@CityRockhounding]

Wow so pretty, love all those pieces. So many cool slabs. Each one is like it's own world!!! Great video Kim, thanks you.

[@robertharrison1775]

Don't know how I missed this one. Beautiful slabs, keep going.

[@williamscoggin1509]

Great show! 👀🇺🇲

[@lornetremblay2828]

Love the slabbing videos. Thanks for sharing.

[@greatnorthernviews3052]

The beast and you do great things❤

[@reiki11]

Good boy, Drogon!!! WOW!!!

[@sandmaker]

Wow! I'm glad you fed Drogon and let us watch. There was not a bad cut in the bunch and the photomicrographs were stunning. I'm really partial to jasper but the TP Canyon and the waterline orbicular agates, just blew me away. Keep the goodness coming. Thank Drogon for me. Be happy, safe and stay healthy. 😷⚒ 🦖

[@terrydoucette6037]

ALL SO NICE KIM😮

[@jamespiel946]

The slab at 4:23 in the video under the microscope looks like an abstract painting, NICE! The Montana Agate after that one looks FANTASTIC! Happy slabbing with Drogon!

[@dewannecoppersmith5262]

Nice hunting their beautiful.

[@geneturk4242]

Great slabs and awesome rocks love the close ups. Pet the 🐕

[@gregderksen1996]

Today at Kim’s Rockin’ Deli and BBQ, we have a veritable smorgasbord of Drogon nommage for you to feast your eyes on! Today’s specials include a Rare orbicular waterline, a nice chunky jasper at 2:30 cooked to a nice pink medium rare, and one Well Done video. I forgot to mention a special treat too! A rock festival featuring an epic battle of the (Agate) Bands! Shout out to our head chef and resident slab master, Montana Rock Mom!

[@anniegironne8444]

It's always so nice to see the inside of these big rocks. Rock on. Happy Easter to you, your family and Chopper.

[@jamespiel946]

You always find the great ones.

[@Nikkisavage100]

awww, love all these stones !!

[@mitchgillilan]

8:50 that's Labradorite! 😀 Great cuts ✂️ 👏 they are all amazing! Especially the fortifications on the teepee holy smokes!!

[@donc5220]

Drogon Was spoiled and so were we , thank you.

[@reneewilbur4340]

Wow! This jasper slab is cool

[@tedkellison2598]

I'm glad I don't have to pick just one!! The Teepee Canyon is stunning, but the agate at about 14:50 is just so unique! Thanks for sharing this magic!

[@MontanaRockMom]

Thanks Ted! Theo is so lucky to be in tropical paradise with this weather huh??!!!

[@msmarigold4647]

They are beautiful

[@debradominguez5861]

That Jasper would make beautiful pendants and necklaces and Ear rings and maybe some ring, I'd love to have some of those cut down into smaller pieces and wire wrap them. They are beautiful.

[@janiehand2954]

third one is fantastic

[@danielmoffett1772]

great videoes very interesting i like picking up montana agate also ,ineed to pickup a rock, saw, fun fun and more fun!!

[@IvanLopez-zh3xz]

cuts. so good!!!

[@IndusRiverRock]

❤ Beautiful ❤

[@stevemace1725]

beautiful stuff

[@anneallen2690]

Wow wonderful 👏 😍

[@douglastaylor638]

Hi Neighbor lm from Idaho you have cut some beautiful slabs thanks for sharing!!!

[@dianacook3470]

I would buy the slab of the last Montana agate. That was my favorite but the others are stunning too!!

[@justjulee9135]

I love slabbing videos! It's so much fun to see inside the rocks! You did some really gorgeous cuts! Love the microscope too. Excellent video!

[@michaelvandyke6715]

Excellent video as always, that Tee Pee Canyon agate is killer cool .. Always a favorite of mine... Had to buy a micro scope camera after seeing yours, haven't set it up yet...

[@MontanaRockMom]

You're going to love having a microscope!

[@406findings]

Soooo many beautiful slabs 🤩I could make some nice fishing lures with them👍

[@MontanaRockMom]

I need to get you over here with some of your big ones

[@406findings]

@@MontanaRockMom there's always rocks that need a good ol cutting 👍

[@GDSavingThePast]

That second rock is a beauty but so where most of the others as well

[@dustbunny3824]

Dang. That little shimmery bit looks like Labradorite.

[@keepyourbootsoffournecks2305]

I'd love to have/see a piece of furniture with slab inserts and maybe a resin top with them in it.

[@dustinfindsrocks]

I tried to do a cutting rocks video yesterday 😅 it’s not getting posted. Bunch of duds and I had lots of issues with filming. Definitely a learning experience though and I learned several things I need to change. So hopefully in the future… it’ll happen. You have definitely inspired me!

[@MontanaRockMom]

Cutting videos are tough aren't they!

[@timothyegan9822]

Great video!

[@McShaganpronouncedShaegen]

And away we go!

[@jayburkhart1781]

the one at 14 mins is so bomb!!

[@MsSandraCGL]

The Teepee Canyon gate is a sweet rock too.

[@Rockhead75]

WOW!!

[@reneewilbur4340]

Ooo I’d love to have the first slab!

[@janiehand2954]

Love the one at 14:39

[@reneewilbur4340]

Insane indeed!

[@eliezersilvadesouza150]

Show 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@kiwisroad]

I just thought of Maybe putting some egg crate foam down to act like a catchers mit for your pieces??

[@brianazmy3156]

Very impressive stuff that you have. I'd love to make an epoxy resin table with a bunch of slabs. A bar top would probably fetch a pretty penny. Nice work and thanks for sharing.

[@maryannkom299]

Check out black opal direct. They created a table with opal pieces that had to much sand inclusions to cut a gem from . Still a lot of color though . Maybe it I’ll give you some inspiration.

[@maryannkom299]

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[@denisthemineralist4033]

Wow, I really thought that one at 7:46 had promise. It should have been just full of massive bands all the way through. But, alas, every rock is a mystery. But you can't go wrong with Teepee Canyon and Montana agates. Those are ALWAYS stupendous. LOVE that last one!

[@christianamaglio6391]

Y Love Agate !!!

[@kennyhollidayjr5206]

Making me wanna get a rock saw

[@MontanaRockMom]

Heck yeah!!!!

[@whycivilequalsinsane]

Plumes in the fortification bands! Um are you accepting applications?❤

[@rafaelhernandez1586]

Hermosas piezas

[@AudioEntrainment]

Did you find that tepee when you visited last year?

[@MontanaRockMom]

Yes!

[@DownriverRocks]

MRM. The second rock (jasper) looks like petrified brain. Seriously. Heart if a giant. ❤️

[@jamesr9835]

If you take a piece of 2x4 and use construction adhesive you can clamp in your saw makes it easier to saw.

[@grandparocky]

I am in Love with Tepee Canyon agate. Where do you find those?

[@MontanaRockMom]

They are found in Western SD...

[@harrytruax5195]

Stunning colorations! Hard to fathom the processes that make these patterns. Just wondering, would you consider doing a video for people like me that really don't know what most of the terms are, like dendrites, waterlines, what is an 'agate' and how is it formed, stuff like that?

[@MontanaRockMom]

That's a good idea. I'm going to talk to a couple of my rockhound friends and see if we could collaborate on some rockhounding education!

[@christianamaglio6391]

Y Love Agate ❤

[@fatmirscollectables9240]

Je shum e mire si guret tu

[@marknorthrup4897]

The last cut was my favorite. Did I hear that you guys got some big snow there last week? Did it snow as far east as Miles City? Glad I postponed coming out that way until later this year.

[@grandparocky]

In Idaho we had 15 " at Pine !

[@MontanaRockMom]

Eastern and Central Montana is getting hit hard right now! Expecting 14 to 24 inches with snow blowing 45mph. April weather is so unpredictable here.

[@yonesdarabi6182]

Sehrschon stein gefällt sehr12💚💯

[@thesnarkyone4523]

Wow, unbelievable slabs. The tepee canyon one was very beautiful, with all the colours and patterns. I see that drogon is of Covington lineage... do you have any other of the Covington line in use, in your shop? I am considering a 10” trim saw from them and am trying to find reviews and such.

[@MontanaRockMom]

I have a vibratory lap from them as well. I can tell you that their customer service is excellent. Dan at Covington is the man to ask for with any questions you may have- he's unbelievable.

[@crystalblackburn2941]

Hi Montana Rock Mom. I still love your videos!! I’m looking for help if you can… no worries, if not! I am looking to buy my first rock saw and table grinder and possibly a flat lap too and I want to sell some of my TN Paint Rock Agate (raw material) to do so. I have many different sizes and varieties. Could you give me a way to contact you if you are interested? Or you could contact me. Thanks so much! I have been collecting for years but have just now started a lapidary class and I want my own equipment!

[@leslietheriault8821]

Lol, feeding Drogon some meatloaf slabs!!

[@gccg3646]

Natural Van Gogh😙

[@reneewilbur4340]

Looks like a kitty with a bite taken out