What's Inside? Cutting Some Top Shelf Yellowstone River Montana Agates, Jaspers, and Agatized Wood!

In this one, we sate our Yellowstone River blues by grabbing some of my top shelf stones to cut! These are all some very high quality stones I've been holding onto for the right occasion, and today just felt like the right time to finally dig into them! We have a wonderful selection of Montana moss agates, Iris agates, Agatized wood, and Green jaspers to dive into this time! The results were fantastic! Not a single dud in the mix! I hope you all enjoy this one, and I will have another one out very soon! Keep your eyes out for the shop update coming soon, because many of the slabs and cut rocks you have seen in recent videos will be heading there very soon!
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[@dawnwilkinson8717]

Beautiful! It always amazes me how something as plain as some of the rocks can be hiding something so stunning inside. Thank you for sharing.

[@simonmultiverse6349]

19:55 That gorgeous iris agate reminds me that "iris" is the Greek word for "rainbow".

[@anitamitchell3452]

The whole time I was thinking about a cob house ... with each of these beauties making up my bedroom wall. What a treasure to wake up to. Stunning!!

[@sunnycadwallader2873]

My jaw dropped when I saw that last one!! Spectacular! They were all terrific!

[@AvalonDreamz]

You and MRM have the best agates and cuts on yt.

[@susanmorseart4984]

That green and yellow Jasper is amazing!!!! But, they ALL are!!!!!!!

[@donaldsavage3699]

What a cool five stars hobby!!!

[@Rocktwister]

I love slabbing videos! Thanks for sharing your excitement about rocks! It makes me sooo happy!

[@patriciamckean4186]

That green jasper is unbelievable!!! All the rest were super too.

[@donnaherzig8106]

Oh my goodness, I'm in heaven. What an amazing video. Thank you so much for sharing all your goodies.

[@lisamills-wv6nc]

Love the iris agates! So stunning! 😊

[@tanekarnes5260]

Oh definitely the crazy iris agate. Absolutely beautiful..the small green glow in center with rainbow around it..wow!

[@leslyeschoenhuth1107]

* Love the Iris Agate.. simply worth drooling over.. Never thought you would have so many pieces of IRIS..

[@406findings]

Nice lil plot twist with the Jasper being a lace style agate.

[@tedklitzkie7808]

I love your intrigue, enthusiasm, and uplifting energy for your rocks!

[@bokunokintama5523]

Omg Theo! You are invading my dreams! I fell asleep watching KZbin And dreamed that you came to my college and did a rock cutting get together You were also a guest speaker for my class.

[@jeanettestefanik5854]

my favorite was the iris agate with the triangular mountain. But the piece left from you grand finale had a pair of parrots talking to each other!🤣

[@deniseveiw7992]

Favorite is Iris, jasper, agate & then the wood. All is beautiful!

[@deniseview4253]

Iris was my favorite and the ready is absolutely gorgeous.

[@largent45]

Holy Moly! Those were all gorgeous! My favorite has to be that fantastic agate at the end! It was amazing! And all those iris agate! Man what a good day! And a lace agate?! Are you kidding me! That was phenomenal! What an amazing day! So satisfying! Thank you Theo!

[@michaelgrimes1131]

Nice cuts. Beautiful agates! Good job! Montana Mom is great too! Rock On!

[@DebbyRaup-vt5rh]

Y fave is the red and green Jasper. Overwhelmingly gorgeous 😮

[@williamscoggin1509]

I'm really nice rainbows we're coming through on the video. Good job. 👍🏻

[@bethcorey6022]

OMG that triangular agate is ❤GOR ❤GEOUS ❤

[@tenaedmonson1213]

I'm so happy you have that saw, you have such an eye.

[@fenix02008]

Great to see you enjoying the SAW❣️ Thx for the educational display at the end ❣️My fave was the Iris agate @ 19.59 ❣️It looks like “THE FLASH” speeding thru❣️ Keep on Rockin❣️

[@kevinunger433]

That last iris with description. My favorite

[@cynergy4]

Oh my! Each of them are breathtaking Theo! You are so fortunate to live where you do with such abundant treasures! The iris is incredible, but my fave may have to be the agatized wood. When you shined the light thru it, just wow! Thanks for sharing with us!

[@vickygoodwin9771]

Absolutely amazing, great rock show!

[@davidhipelius3792]

WOW those are all just beautiful !!!!!!!!!

[@reportedstolen3603]

Love when it’s rock cutting time!!! Keep on Slabbin’ in the Free World!!

[@MK2DETEC]

Iris agate is so beuatiful 😍👍

[@laurat5143]

Thanks, those were amazing.😊 Thumbs-up.

[@silverymoon5516]

WOW they were all amazing but my absolute favorite is the iris agate. Great video.

[@agatebeauties]

Absolutely gorgeous! Watching this makes me want to get a saw!

[@kellyharper367]

Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: Excellent! That agate with the sparkle has a little of everything! I love your passion for our craft.

[@claudine1220]

HArd to pick a favourite but the iris cuts are always a winner for me!

[@janehelbert7551]

They turned out beautifully!

[@marthafenimore4279]

Best video ever. So beautiful.

[@keithcunningham7925]

Stunning I love you cutting ✂️ videos

[@Mike-br8vb]

That crazy agate was my fav! Also the agaye you saved till this vid to cut!

[@booboobear5710]

Those slabs are spectacular!

[@watutokBatuakik]

lots of agates and good good success always friends

[@savagesquirrel9828]

Nice cuts. Amazing iris. Thanks.

[@YTubinger]

They were beautiful even when uncut - and after the cuts they're unbelievable beautiful!

[@taramartin6117]

Thank you sharing such beautiful stones, the pictures inside the agates are amazing. I lived in Lemmon, South Dakota for awhile and have some picture agate jewelry but definitely not of the scope, size and quality of your pieces. Someday I promise myself a large picture agate pendant should I live so long. Truly amazing what can be hidden inside a rock. Just like turning wood, until you uncover the beauty, you have no idea what you have.

[@anniegironne8444]

That first jasper was so colorfull and what a surprise with th lace and iris agates. Some of these slabs should be seen under Kim's microscope. Just a suggestion since we are all snowed in. ❄️😉

[@Nikkisavage100]

Dreams stones, amazing !!

[@amethyst5538]

The first jasper would make really cool whiskey stones.

[@DebbyRaup-vt5rh]

Mind-blowing!!

[@mommarichman]

The second to last piece - the agatized wood - would make a beautiful watch or small clock face!

[@Mrjoshuasjourneyzzz10420]

New project, hand turned lampshades with various rock inlays, slabs,pieces,tumbled, small like the rings, all back-lit in lamp form!!! Rotating???

[@ROCKINWHEELERS]

THEY'RE ALL SO VERY BEAUTIFUL. We also have been enjoying your previous videos. We were sad to seee you not feel good on your Florida Trip. Rosie & I have also been watching a few of your Rock Hounding/ lapidary / Rock slabbing, Associates = Friends also on You the Tube just by continuously watching YT.hehehe.

[@justjulee9135]

I'm so jealous of the beautiful natural resources you have in Montana. My goal is to visit as soon as I can! Great video with gorgeous rocks!

[@user-zp7vd7xt6t]

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[@tenaedmonson1213]

Love the red-striped pet. wood the lines are perfacet.

[@gary3270]

I wish lake superior agates were that big and plentiful!! Those are beautiful slabs!

[@tashacano3324]

Those were all some amazing slabs! I'm watching with my four yr old & when we saw the iris agate slabs he saw oooh I wanna find a rock like that! 😂 I was me too buddy me too

[@heatherswope361]

Absolutely gorgeous. I will make it to Montana eventually. For now I'm in Texas hunting some cool geodes,agates and fossils.

[@kylaabegglen1275]

Really amazing slabs, they're all so beautiful. Hard to pick a favorite but I love the iris agates, that lace agate is incredible and the last agate is so unique and gorgeous. The jaspers (love those greens) and petrified wood are pretty terrific as well. Fantastic cutting video. Thanks for sharing these Theo!✌️🤠🤘

[@LanceDean]

Great stuff going on there!

[@michaelvandyke6715]

Excellent cuts...👌

[@kevinunger433]

Very very nice, Theo

[@trishabarlas374]

They are so beautiful

[@donc5220]

Sooo wicked your saw timing was perfect with this crazy weather. Amzing man Coolest beans. I think you developed eye for what an Iris might be in , give yourself more credit bro hahah pretty impressed.

[@meepenjaap7999]

I have been watching rock hounding videos for the last month. I have been looking for a hobby that isn't as expensive as jewelry making classes. I recently picked up some blue lace agate at a rock shop by the lb. Thank you for showing the cutting portion of rock hauls.

[@empress6491]

Theo thank you , amazing.

[@TheDalatube]

Awesome cuttings!

[@-_Spiral_-]

I should try visiting Montana one day. I don’t have too many agates in my collection.

[@justjulee9135]

I've been saying that same thing for quite a while now. It's all the way across the country for me so I would need to take a couple weeks of vacation in order to get as much in as possible.

[@Cherrycola14]

Great video once again!

[@nancycobb5090]

I follow you all the time

[@ramblinrobs47]

I work on cell towers doing vegetation maintenance so I would visit 7 to 20 towers the day and I have only a 10in blade. So I picked up a 20 in drop saw that the d-ceased previous owner used for making spheres. I picked it up at first Creek rock shop in Washington, they still had all of this sphere making equipment also I just picked up the saw. I have probably 14 buckets full of agates exactly like the stuff you are finding. Brought to the Columbia River area 10,000 years ago in the Missoula floods. I can't wait to get it going. I also have a couple of buckets of uncut thundereggs for Richardson's Rock ranch Lucky strike Rock shop from Mitchell Oregon. Watching you're videos I'm pretty convinced on the 10,000 years ago Missoula flood theory. Love your videos hope to make it to your area sometime.

[@kirktingblad6667]

Beautious!

[@marcialander8854]

The struggle is real!

[@DreidMusicalX]

12:48 that almost looks like it has some opal color qualities in it. Beautiful stone!

[@meepenjaap7999]

Iris agate is my favorite you are showing. Isn't the art nature makes the best?

[@Panicagq2]

That Iris is the most gorgeous agate slab I've ever seen, hands down. All were beautiful though, thank you for sharing!

[@patifagan6774]

Kool beans

[@joannkoep8905]

Oh my gosh I miss the Montana agates. I grew up on the Yellowstone . I live in Portland Oregon now and I had to buy a Montana agates.

[@janehelbert7551]

The iris agates!

[@cynthiadugan858]

❤wow!❤

[@brycechampness3363]

The iris agate @ 19:56 reminds me of the pink floyd dark side of the moon 👍

[@biker9835]

I had a rock that didn't have any cracks in it and I don't have a saw big enough. I only have a 7-in wet tile saw that rock has been sitting on my porch for 6 months and it had a little pattern showing on the two halves that I brought home. One half was bigger than the other half was a little smaller but I cracked an open because I was just getting mad of letting us sit. There is just in my mind that there was something there and I cracked it open. Got lucky as s*** got a nice clean break. Nothing really broke off other than a couple small flakes and it had the best pattern I ever found. I was so happy but I was pissed off the same time cuz it's been sitting on my porch

[@judymarkel8029]

Oh my goodness this was an awesome video. I cant wait to see what you do with the iris agates. They were undescribalely beautiful. Thanks for sharing

[@user-hz2xl4co9u]

Can we see an iris agate under a microscope sometime? Curious to see the micro crystalization. 😃

[@aleembuscadoscristais]

Lindas essas Ágata. parabéns meu amigo

[@markattardo]

Awesome rocks!! Seeing all the crazy natural goodness never gets old!

[@betojdesigns]

I would say Yes, that was a very successful day of cutting and slicing. That last one, your favorite, was absolutely stunning.

[@teddyarya9149]

Very beautiful masyaAllloh

[@kellyemmons2690]

Theo if you glue your rocks to a 2x2 or 2x4 you can safely clamp it in your saw. The person that told me about this trick uses wood glue. When he wants the rock off the wood he cuts it off leaving just a bit of wood then soaks it in a bucket of water and the wood glue will let loose of the rock.

[@Rocktwister]

Hahahaha Theo I really stress about where to cut too!

[@bobs-rocks]

So SO nice! Thanks for sharing. I have one That I have been looking at for months but still haven't decided what to turn it into.

[@robinhindman7541]

Miss my home state but now live in World Recognized Geode Field (Cannon County) Tennessee

[@Phoenix_Enterprises]

I've got to get up there and do a hunt. I miss montana moss agate.

[@theresabraddock9310]

Stunning and surprising lot! Thanks for sharing 👍 also, I'm amazed when you can remember specifically when and where you found a rock!

[@biker9835]

Sometimes I choose the ladder and and use a dremel just to clean it up

[@graemero5532]

Wow

[@timhansen2577]

I have had good luck gluing weird shaped stuff to 2x4 lumber chunks to slab. If you use regular wood glue, you can soak/scrub it off easily when done.

[@giegirll.bolantevlogs6499]

Niceday

[@kennethgreene7124]

I'm sure there were rock hounds among the first settlers and possibly among the native Americans. I would imagine they had the best finds getting first pickens from the rivers

[@seagullsaga6587]

I only collect Big specimens, so when I see your larger pieces I think "Ooh I'd buy that!" Well I have all kinds of smaller specimens but whole raws & raw symbiotics, clusters, Chalcedonies, Geodes, Cathedrals, Free Forms etc. So the larger rocks half polished I'd buy or half polished free forms but not small slices. I do have polished spheres & towers, all kinds of crystal bowls of fat tumbles or Fairy Quartz wands, Spirit Quartz Wands but I love big Druze pieces & my big huge raw specimens. I have way more raw than polished specimens but I have a big raw red jasper Ammonite fossil. In middle of moving so although I've posted lot of photos of my collection on Instagram & Facebook it's always growing & as fast as my new ones come I'm wrapping them back up ready to move. I'll have to do a video 1 day.