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[@deborahellenberger7153]

I love the honesty Jared and Sarah share with us. It gives me hope that I will be able to find treasures that do not have to be pristine, extreme colour or perfect. Rocks, like trees, are rarely perfect. Love the channel.

[@patriciamckean4186]

Intarsia is nice. Possible a clock front...I love the info you share. I've watched some of your informative videos over and over. Thanks for all your work.

[@cynthiafoss8086]

To each their own, there is plenty of variety of rocks for each of us to collect what we like. Love seeing the differences.

[@sandmaker]

I liked this weeks content. I always do, but this one hit a note with me. Keep the you in your youtube. See y'a next time.😷⚒

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you!

[@kirsiselei8703]

Thx for informative video 👍❤️ Im just admireing all kind of rocks and rockhunters in youtube since nothing like those in ur country doesnt exist here where i live. Love all the rocks, there is no point of compare one to another❤❤👋🇫🇮

[@patriciamilholand3585]

That is amazing! I made a clock for my Dad for Father's Day. I used my tumbled stones for the hours instead of numbers.

[@amberandrews6842]

Beauty is personal. It's subjective. I like pretty rocks. I like quirky as well as traditional pretty rocks. I like your content. If someone doesn't like a video, they don't need to watch it? You consistently find beautiful specimens.

[@paulblack1799]

I've seen this beautiful work of art in their clubhouse / workshop. It is AMAZING.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I'm jealous! I would love to see it in person.

[@DonariaRegia]

One has to appreciate the era that clock was built and who built it. It was a time when building and tinkering was a very common hobby. Many veterans came home from WWII with mechanical skills and put them to use in their garage or basement shop. A jade clock has to be considered one of the pinnacles of custom lapidary, it's so unique, even the tools were custom made. What a treasure to have on display!

[@VersaiOnline]

You would enjoy the Lizzadro museum of Lapidary in Chicago. There's jade carvings from Chinese dynasties that were considered golden ages. The emperor would employ dozens of master lapidaries to carve just for him, some projects took decades of collaboration.

[@darlenepringle536]

Wow this made me think a bit for sure .as always I have enjoyed what you share on your channel and most importantly I appreciate the realness and honesty thank you.

[@TheRogueRockhound]

17:01 When I get my sunstone mine, it will be the best rockhounding spot bro. Its gonna have everything man. Adult sized bouncy castle, lazers, a chicken petting zoo, and ice cream sammiches. ^^

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

That will for sure raise the bar, if it doesn't have a bouncy castle, is it even worth going to?

[@Mike-br8vb]

Fn hilarious!!!!!!🤣🤣

[@irisphnx]

I just had to go back to the start of the video to verify that you were truly mainlining Banana flavor Almond Breeze. No ice cubes or nothin. Hats off to you and your sensory ability to handle that viscosity & flavor combo.

[@LezBeRockin73]

Oh my goodness you were cracking me up! Thank you for saying things that some of us want to but haven't! If someone is a true rockhounding lover of nature they wouldn't have to blast themselves all over the internet for attention. Kate is the best on the Yellowstone for sure. Thank you for sharing and educating 😊

[@steveegbert7429]

I'm right there with you Jared. I want my camera to give me an image that is what I see is what I get. If I want to adjust an image, that should be my choice, not the cameras. I will use a cell phone, sure, but for stuff that I want to look real, I use a full frame digital. That way I can do whatever I want with the raw file and not loose any original data.

[@CacklingChick]

Thanks for making us THINK. Awesome videos!

[@edwardrick7388]

Your video production skills and KZbin ethics is exactly why I love your videos

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you.

[@silverback5033]

Hi Jared, that clock is staggering, it did make me think however of a little project I would like to attempt in the future. The reason I follow your channel and several others is that you get to see real world rocks and not one of those that is enhanced or hyped up. I also watch some of the TV shows in regard to gem or gold and get very annoyed at the fact that ever episode has scripted “drama” which now includes some of our Aussie shows. It becomes TV, BS. I have to catch up with a couple of your previous videos to see where you moved to etc. All the best, another good Saturday night special. Keep Safe & Keep Rockin

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

The whole concept of making a clock like this is mind-blowing to think about. It's a shame that all the professional shows have gone the route of scripted drama and it would seem people on KZbin have followed that to a degree.

[@kimdedominicis6893]

Some people just live to be offended and argue on social media! Your opinion and content are yours and I respect you for this. I think it takes a lot of nerve to say those things to someone on their platform!

[@DeeDeeDIY]

That clock! Wowzer!

[@user-gu4xr1zj3j]

My family is headed down to Brian Head soon. We added Mammoth Creek to our list of stops. We will be stopping at the Three Peaks area for our second time as well. We found great crystals on our first trip, and I would LOVE to find some lodestone now. Hopefully, we have some luck.

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Now that would be a cool clock to have!

[@charlenecastaldo3602]

Wow ! What a special lapidary undertaking with stunning results! I hope you and Sara can go to SF and look at it sometime soon. As a fellow Utahn, rocks are sooooo much better everywhere else. WINK WINK 😆 THANKS Jared!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I really hope that someday we can get out there and see it.

[@GeraldBlack1]

All about the journey good luck.

[@just-one-more-rock]

Respect... true. I fully get what you're saying. My older phone I'm using for my videos now is representing fairly decent but the new phone I was about to start using has clean images and my kids phone is the same one. Every sunset they capture is like something from heaven. Going to see if my camera is good enough to drop my phone for KZbin. Thanks Jared Oh and I was thinking of trying to gift my subscribers polished slabs from the videos to be interactive and then at least one viewer can know that what I show is real. True to life is important...and guess what? Sometimes life isn't spectacular but regular days can still be good days worth sharing. Respect, respect for keeping it real.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It really is wild to see how magical modern phones can make something look. The downside to this is that it does misrepresent reality and when it comes to taking photos or video of loved ones, trips, and the things in your life, do you want it all to be photoshopped automatically? Because that's what it's doing. You can always take your camera and just shoot some test video.

[@savage1r]

With the lubricity properties of quartzite and jade, you'd think more things like gears and bearings would be made out of them.

[@TheRogueRockhound]

Rocks, tools, and water are all heavy. When I'm hiking miles to get to good spots, the last thing I want is to lug around an expensive, fragile, and bulky tool. Unless I'm on the coast, I'd rather keep things light so I can actually reach the places worth showing off.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

That's a hard one, I fully understand the desire to use the cellphone and I did for years, but with that, there is a trade off.

[@Wisconsinrockstalker]

Yes I agree and always state in my videos that my phone doesn't represent what the material actually looks like in real life. Also the phone has many enhancements to your pictures.

[@JoeFernald-q7i]

I am glad to see you drinking some milk for a change. Great video

[@VersaiOnline]

I would love to see more of that jade clock. I duplicated a key out of jade and it worked, video proof on my channel. Less than 1mm thin but strong enough to turn the lock. I think I could make the lock out of jade too. Would love to work in a group on a project like the clock. I have some intarsia ideas cooking up too

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Those keys you made are amazing.

[@tott3457]

Jared, I’m soon going to be a Great Grandma!!! I’ve lived in California my whole life!!! I’ve been to S. F. Numerous times in the past! S. F isn’t what it used to be to. If you do decide to go in the future I wouldn’t stay long!!! You really don’t want to go!!!!!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I'm sure it has changed for the worst in many ways but I would still love to go and see the clock.

[@valsummers5330]

Magnetite!!!!!🎉

[@andrewp.schubert2417]

The Rocks are OK, but that Almond milk is yummy. I hope you get paid for the product placement. Great program as always. Thanks Jared. Greeting from California

[@brianholcomb940]

Awesome video, Jared! The clock is very fascinating! To bad there isn't more about it out there! All I can say to those people complaining about the Yellowstone and Mammoth Meadow comparison, at least there are places that can be compared! There really isn't much here in Virginnia! I watch quite a few of the Yellowstone peoples videos and I am in awe at what they don't pick up or throw to the side because they already have 2000 pound of it in their garage! (pounds exaggerated) I just wish I could drive an hour away to a place that I didn't have to pay 50 dollars for a bucket of loaded dirt just to have the genuine feeling of finding an unbelievable rock! Sorry, vent over! Thanks for sharing!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

We are rather lucky living in the west.

[@DeanMeilken]

I wonder how many stones where broke or cracked while trying to make some of those specific parts, also if they made some of their own custom tools to even carve those gears out. No idea there was a whole feild devoted to stone work like that.

[@brianjohnson3974]

Nice ink!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you.

[@TheIdeanator]

I'm just waiting for you to write a book on collecting in the northwest.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I have a website which is far better than a book.

[@spetkovsek57]

What an interesting video this week. The clock is amazing and I'm sure one person trying to reproduce it would take a decade or more. As for the "finding museum quality material" every time you go out, we both know is a farce and click bait. We've had this discussion before. With 50K subscribers you're always going to get people who will disagree with you. It's the nature of people in general. You have to live with what you get. What I want to know is how can I (being a cabber) get a copy of that page of cabbing pictures? As always, another nice video. Thanks.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It would be a lifetime achievement for a single person to make something like this. The cabbing diagram is already in your email inbox! :)

[@largent45]

I have to agree. There is nobody doing anything as amazing, as the jade clock! That is extraordinary! Jade itself is a somewhat difficult material to work with. And being that there is two different kinds of jade out there, it makes the project even more difficult! What most people are calling jade is a neferite jade and it's an ultra dense form of serpentine. And sometimes people are calling serpentines without inclusions, all jade, and they are not. And there is jadeite jade, which is the Chinese jade, and often the only material that they considered true jade for a long time. Jadeite is much denser and the colors more translucent than neferite. It's what I grew up with and something that you very rarely see outside of China these days. It's something that families pass down so they stay in the family. And this type of jade is much denser and far harder to find. It doesn't fracture like the neferite does and is a harder type of material than neferite. And comes in all kinds of colors from white to emerald green to pinks and lavender. That type of jade would have been far more difficult to work with but more durable but I believe it is neferite and that alone is a fear unto itself! But that clock is absolutely stunning! And more people should know about this! It's something that can't be reproduced today! And as for people and oversaturation of pictures today, it happens a lot to people and I wish my camera would do it automatically! My pictures suck but a lot of that is me. There will be haters and nay Sayers and that's good. At least they are talking about you! Most people's videos aren't good enough to even get a mention! Thank you so much Jared! I had missed your SNS while you were moving! I'm glad you are back! ❤

[@VersaiOnline]

Jadeite may be harder and denser but nephrite is tougher. Nephrite is the jade that the Chinese originally revered for thousands of years. Everything carved before the 1800s is out of nephrite, they only switched to jadeite in the last couple hundred years, partly by mistake because they couldn't tell the difference at first. As far as stones go, the properties of nephrite make it one of the best/easiest stones to carve.

[@VersaiOnline]

Even DSLR cameras can be deceptive. There's a rock seller on FB whos photos are beyond real. I've interrogated him and he insists he's just pointing and clicking the DSLR, doesn't tune it in any way. But his photos are cartoonishly vibrant and I've felt ripped off when I get the slab.

[@lizlittle7064]

It’s hard to judge a rock just by the outside. You never know how cool it can be on the inside or sometimes cool on the outside not very good when you cut it.

[@valsummers5330]

I really prefer the mammoth creek stones They aren’t all bashed up The concoidial flaking is evident As for glowing Right side is a winner And you got to putter around in a little stream Check out flowers✅✅✅

[@kzbay1685]

To be offended about opinions about rocks is weird.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Some people are a bit nutty.

[@rachaelb9164]

Rockhounding Utah is super inaccurate with their GPS coordinates. I kind of wish they would just take them out instead of continually publishing wrong data. When we were visiting an aunt in SLC we went to the Utah State Geological Society. They have tons of super detailed maps. We talked to a couple people there about rocks and geology and got some good info. I bet you could get a lot of good info from college geology departments as well. I appreciate your channel because you show accurate representations of locations and materials and you are one of a very few that actually share the locations you were at. My only recommendation is to be aware of how negative you may come across as you complain about how things are. I get what you’re saying but it does come across sometimes as whining lol.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I think it's completely nuts how bad these books are, and they continue to be time after time. It's almost like the authors want the person buying the book to have a bad time. If you want to take me pointing out the nonsense and lies as whining, then so be it.

[@Rich_N]

Without naming names, the KZbinr I’m thinking of is 100% clickbait and I suspect is not fully honest with their “finds”. I prefer your content because even when you strike out, you’re honest about it. When every swing is a home run, it starts to feel suspicious.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I can assure you that a number of people are faking finds.

[@curtd7117]

👍👍🎥🪨⛏️🔬👍👍

[@Harkart59]

You must be thinking a little bit like an artist when you're rock hunting. I wish there were better books that were more recent. A lot of the ones I see now seem like they were written by 'Alexa'....I just can't believe it. The Yellowstone river was great for little bits.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Sadly very few modern books have been written on the subject or rockhounding and lapidary that are worth reading and to be honest, most are trash.

[@soul_adventurist]

I would live to meet up with Kate and hunt the Yellowstone, but now I must now more about this Mammoth Basin? Dude, don’t even pay attention to those negative comments. People want to start crap. They probably never even go hounding or take pictures. Armchair referees just yelling at the TV trying to tell you how to play your game. You do what you do best❤ That clock is amazing! I wonder where is now and why aren’t there more photos of it?

[@matthewlarson738]

I'm of the same opinion on the clickbait/hype train. The over-the-top and straight-up disingenuous behavior is extremely unpleasant to me. However, Dan Hurd is a bit of an exception. The vast majority of his titles and thumbnails are clickbait but he doesn't try to upsell his finds during his videos. I don't watch much of his stuff anyway cause I'm just not that interested in gold

[@irisphnx]

I just had to go back to the start of the video to verify that you were truly mainlining Banana flavor Almond Breeze. No ice cubes or nothin. Hats off to you and your sensory ability to handle that viscosity & flavor combo.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Ha! Thank you.