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These are amazing!

Well done! Is there a link to Dr. Gunter's star garnet research?

So interesting. Thanks!!

Good vid; very interesting.

Any corrections I'll post here: -I pronounced "Shoshone" how I thought the Tribe name is pronounced, but I guess the locals don't and say "Show-shown" instead. -Bechtel Butte is a syncline, not an anticline, but the rumor Nira heard about the garnets being bigger in the plane of symmetry still applies - just flip that anticline image upside down in your head.

That was wonderfully edited and produced presentation Dr. Donohue. I rarely see anyone using "The Thirds" to inject whom is speaking, so for a guy that spent 3/4 of his life in the Broadcast Television Industry, I'm impressed. Well Done!

Fantastic. Sometimes researching star garnets can be tedious but you really were able to capture a lot of that research in one place and interviewed people knowledgeable on the subject from several different angles. From each of those angles you showed us a star!

You are such a wonderful documentary-ist! The way you find people who are willing to take charge of the interview and clearly explain the subject. It's just wonderful! And makes for a interesting and informative documentary! Really well done! Thanks Patrick!

Nice video! Thx!

Really enjoyed this Patrick!

Love the intro 😆 your documentary videos are fabulous.

What a great Doc! You should enter it in the Big Sky Doc Film Festival!

Nice!!!

Mine never worked can’t even complete one rotation I have up and bought a flat lap

I have a question, unrelated to the video. Have you ever worked with moissanite (from the Gems of Science website) and why a 2-3 gram piece of rough worth the $12 in shipping in addition to the $37 that it initially costs?

I love your cat!

I have a Facetron machine, cutting since 1990 and cut regularly in South Africa. Since we moved here in 1996 I have to work full time so don’t cut nearly as much here. I’m going to try this fabulous NEWS cut of yours! Recently cut my first Spellbound by Jeff Rhonemus. I really need to try a Gemcad type program to increase Brilliance. There’s a version that’s free now, is it as good as the one you’re using? Thank you for this great video!

Thank you for sharing - I’ve been contemplating CAD - it looks like a great help!

This is a great idea. Where do you source cracked or chipped stones?

Nothing like a little fossil ASMR 🩵 good job on the fossils and winning the award!

nice fish. How much time did that consume?

Howdy Dr. Donohue. Enjoyed your prepping and repairing video adventure. Was curious as to what your adding 'on to the fossil' after you have worked on sections of certain prepped area's? is it a watered downed "CA" concoction or other?

Thanks for the info!!

Jason's link is broken.

I love this channel haha. Thanks for doing this.

Thank you for this video, you are a real conductor

Would of liked for you to of ran it as it out of box maybe? 😂

Hey it is so unusual to find some one with the same spelling of my last name. Just a interested person in looking for rocks .

This video left me speachless. 😦

This video gave me a braingasm.

You should look at the black wax instead of the green for smaller stones

After you get some of these obvious little obstacles out of the way, go and cut your first "gem"... I suggest you go to the hobby shop and buy a little bag of marbles for a buck or two. Glass marbles! Go and try a few simple cuts using glass marbles! You will be surprised how much there is to learn in hands on skills, small details, there is a ton of little "tricks" and "ways to do it" until you end up with a fully polished glass "brilliant", a beautiful amethyst color glass brilliant. Once you have done a couple of those and "know what you are doing" as a beginner. Speaking for myself, I figured out how to put the facets where they belong reasonably quickly, but my biggest problem was and still is the polishing. As the Vevor machines are definitely unsophisticated, there is a silver lining, namely, you will have a worked out a bunch of common sense solutions in general gem facetting skills.

Discord invite?

Thank you for the time and effort you put into creating a usable faceter, and the time spent documenting it for us!

Gorgeous

Thank for sharing

Lovely stones! Thanks for the info! 😎👍

Really enjoyed your documentary sir, your narrative reminded me also of it being in the vein of a Ken Burn's creation. Well Done!

Hi Patrick. Do you have tutorial how to make grinding wheel that you are using or it is not hanmade?

So I've had great luck with my Chicago Electric tumbler which I purchased for $59. I've run mine nonstop from June 2023 to October 2024 and just replacing the belt for the first time this evening. Conversely, I bought a Lortone 33B in July 2023 for $139, and the motor burned out in July 2024 (it's been a pain to find a new one...). The Chicago Electric company has been bought out by Central Machinery (but it is the exact same tumbler, and I just purchased a new one for $79 last month). Great way to start in the rock tumbling hobby!!

saweet video dude I like the style you made and how you traversed the the path that led to a unique and steller stone. Good work. I'm just gonna start getting into all of faceting i've been rockhounding for years and have a good back stock of material.

so much gleam to glean

How much did you pay &&for the emerald?

I enjoyed your presentation sir.

wow been finding rocks around the Columbia basin for years. have a beauty of a collection. thanks for the info.

As always, your videos are thoughtful, appear to have a production value as high as an investigative journal episode from like dateline.

That is a wonderful death plate! Good investment :)