Every time I watch one of your videos, my face gets close to the screen to see the gems up close. So many could be turned into amazing pieces of jewelry. 🥰
Nice to see new videos...I watch you so much I keep running out of new videos to watch of yours....thanks for your refreshing videos...God Bless You and yours....
I love your videos so much. What an extraordinary way to live life, to find the hidden artwork of nature. So many surprises. Today I ordered an agate, I fell in love when I saw multiple colors. I will treasure it. It makes me feel like a tiny mouse in a grand universe. ❤❤
This was a beautiful collection. My favorite 3 have to be the ones you showed last, before you polished them, but they are all lovely. Thanks Agate Dad! ☺️
My 8 year old son and I watch your shows all the time. He calls your agate geodes, Ageodes. 😅 We love your show. It's very informative. We are from California and love looking for treasure rocks. Thank you! My son wants me to give you a bunch of hearts ❤❤❤❤❤
I get more pleasure and satisfaction from watching your reactions to the newly cut stones than the videos themselves. I really LOVE to watch them esp on days when I’m feeling a bit down as it’s like watching an excited child opening their Xmas presents (no disrespect intended). Thank you so much for sharing this little bit of joy with the rest of the world…. It has a much bigger impact than you realise as your thrill, delight and passion with these agates is so infectious (and so is your laugh btw), and I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels this way! 🤗
My face when I see you uploaded another video 🤗 My face while you are hatching agates 😮 My face when the video ends and you say bye 😢 Looking forward to the next batch of gorgeous rocks! 😅
This was a joy to watch. Congrats on your beauties. Even the fractures given these character, they are ancient after all. I got a Malawi agate from your store a while back and keep it on my desk at work. I sometimes just stare into its depth and turn it in the sunlight. It's very soothing to have such immense beauty in a small package.
😮 Fantastic cutting session!❤ Malawi agates do not disappoint!😊🥰 Thanks for sharing and thanks for all your hard work, even though it looks like tons of fun!😁
I love watching you cut open the agates. I watch 4 or 5 of your videos every day. It just is a joyful experience to see all the beautiful treasures that are revealed.❤😊❤
How gorgeous! Although I was worried you were just going to zoom through the cutting (understandably, there were a lot), I just love hearing your reactions to the beauty you discover! Your pleased chortling makes my day. Thanks for a great batch! 💖
Loving the content! They are all so stunning when you get them open, I'm partial to the ones with orange bands. Thanks for sharing your excitement with us! Sending love. ❤
Amazingly lovely batch you got this time; it's hard to pick out a favorite. The first long one, and the smaller orange one polished up beautifully. The pale one with the orange dot in the middle was unusual. The smaller, defined orange dot surrounded by quartz looks like a tiny flower. Do you ever decided you just missed a pocket, then go back to cut a little more until the pocket is exposed?
Gosh I do love Malawi Agates, definitely bought the 5lb bag of Malawi Babies from Gem Shop after I first saw you cut them! Speaking of Gem Shop - get yourself a pound or two of their Montana Moss B Grades, I have been having a BLAST with them! They’re not the most colorful but gosh, the bands and the moss that creeps into some of them - they’re gorgeous! (I have two YT shorts posted showing them if you’re curious!)
How is it that some of the agates are not symmetrical in color when cutting through them. Specifically the one at 3:18 is orange on one side and yellow on the other. Are the two colors separated by transparent layer that we don’t see and actually not part of the same chunk?
Hmm, it's like cutting a hard-boiled egg in half. Even if you cut RIGHT down the middle, the yolk might be more on one side than the other, and that can make it look different.
@@sarahschaeffer1247 this makes a lot of sense. I wasn’t accounting for the amount that transparency would affect the two sides. I also wonder if the cutting process grinds away enough that also affects the symmetry. If the cutting blades also impact it.
so beautiful the first one wasand the one at 6....and at 8.36 quit nice and the one at 10.20, had been stunning if not two half ones, even the one at 13.45 was mostly with white/greyish colors, the pattern was beautiful, liked it a lot, and the inside with those colors at 15.08, gorgeous. some of the not so fab had some charm. and polished, the was shining like stars.
Thank you for putting in the “short site”with a click to this adventure…many times I rely on this….ps. Not one nodule ever ugly!! From a rock licker!!…..
I’m not new to rockhounding but I am very new to cutting/polishing, and I wondered why most TH-camrs almost always cut their small pieces in half rather than try to get 2 or more cuts? I’m did my first few in one cut, mainly because that’s what I’d seen done but also because I was just getting used to my machine (tile saw with thin blade). I now make cuts depending on how I think it’ll be, and often make an off-centre cut then decide how many more to make. Maybe it’s all about what the end product will be. I enjoy your vids and you’re one of my favourite subscriptions. Cheers.
Agates are usually cut in halves in the center, biggest face or to avoid cracks/windows or best option for a nice face (parallax, banding, pseudomorphs or other structures etc.). Cutting slab after slab is frown upon the most serious agate collectors. Most hate slabs and some even don't like any damage like windows etc. on the back. Cut a nice specimen down to some slab is more popular in the US in order "to increase the value". In Europe or Asia it will cut down the value incredible. 50% and more. Slabs are more fragile, more expensive (you have to cut it two times and perhaps polish both sides), may loose color which is often based on optical depth etc. You will risk a valuable stone for perhaps more profit but often at cost of beauty. You only go for slabs when you try to improve a face when the quality is not really good and there is a chance for a better one. Or in the case of a flat and long body like you have with seam agates. And at last when your plan is to cut cabochons where you start with a slab. When you go for the center you have the best chance of recut in case. Starting from the back may ruin your specimen because the banding usually opens up to the center and you will slice it down for nothing. Compare it with onions. Cut the in ther center will show several layer, but cut them on the edge will show just one or two wide and boring layers without "banding" The center may but rotten, but you don't see it. You waste time for cutting and lifetime of your blade.
How beautiful were those ugly nodules?!
Very beautiful agates
They are all so GORgeous!!😊 Thank you for sharing your beautiful rock's and your joyful laughter 😊
Gorgina!!❤
The second one looked like a coyote! I know where I'm going now! ETSY!
So beautiful ❤️
Every time I watch one of your videos, my face gets close to the screen to see the gems up close. So many could be turned into amazing pieces of jewelry. 🥰
I prefer the mystery box style of opening these with you and hearing your excitement
All I see are really pretty earrings
Really beautiful
Thanks!
Thanks so much!!
That blue quartz is gorgeous
The hoard is increasing! Some definite keepers 🤩
Thank you for sharing with us. So many beauties ❤️
Nice to see new videos...I watch you so much I keep running out of new videos to watch of yours....thanks for your refreshing videos...God Bless You and yours....
I love your videos so much. What an extraordinary way to live life, to find the hidden artwork of nature. So many surprises. Today I ordered an agate, I fell in love when I saw multiple colors. I will treasure it. It makes me feel like a tiny mouse in a grand universe. ❤❤
God's creation is so beautiful. Love we you should these beauties.
So beautiful. Thanks for including us on the adventure.
I absolutely love the whites and browns/oranges. Absolutely beautiful
This was a beautiful collection. My favorite 3 have to be the ones you showed last, before you polished them, but they are all lovely. Thanks Agate Dad! ☺️
My 8 year old son and I watch your shows all the time. He calls your agate geodes, Ageodes. 😅 We love your show. It's very informative. We are from California and love looking for treasure rocks. Thank you! My son wants me to give you a bunch of hearts ❤❤❤❤❤
I'm sorry, THAT IS SO CUTTEEEE, u sound like a good parent AWWWW
They are magnificent love your videos
Such beauties! Thanks for sharing 😊
Wow, these are all so beautiful! Nature rocks! Thanks so much for sharing, Taylor!
Glad you like them!
I get more pleasure and satisfaction from watching your reactions to the newly cut stones than the videos themselves. I really LOVE to watch them esp on days when I’m feeling a bit down as it’s like watching an excited child opening their Xmas presents (no disrespect intended). Thank you so much for sharing this little bit of joy with the rest of the world…. It has a much bigger impact than you realise as your thrill, delight and passion with these agates is so infectious (and so is your laugh btw), and I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels this way! 🤗
Cut, cut, cut! Great cuts with only a couple of missed. Super polish on all of them. Thanks for sharing.
WOW! I Love those! SO lucky! Especially love the ones that look like their own living landscapes!
So so pretty! Alright you talked me into it I’ll buy more Malawi agates 😍
😂
WOW! The first one! These are going to rock!
Thank you.I had fun.They were all very all of them very interesting and beautiful
the first one was a beautiful surprise!!!
Every cut is beautiful to me ❤
What fun! Thanks for sharing with all of us!
The very last one was my favorite. Looks like flowers in the middle.
Those are beautiful! What a surprise! Remember I love the reveal.❤
My face when I see you uploaded another video 🤗 My face while you are hatching agates 😮 My face when the video ends and you say bye 😢 Looking forward to the next batch of gorgeous rocks! 😅
Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!
This was a joy to watch. Congrats on your beauties. Even the fractures given these character, they are ancient after all. I got a Malawi agate from your store a while back and keep it on my desk at work. I sometimes just stare into its depth and turn it in the sunlight. It's very soothing to have such immense beauty in a small package.
😮 Fantastic cutting session!❤ Malawi agates do not disappoint!😊🥰 Thanks for sharing and thanks for all your hard work, even though it looks like tons of fun!😁
A beautiful batch!
Wow!!! So beautiful ❤
Wow.. some of those are amazing , love when you cut and show polished thank you ❤
The rainbow heart one !!!!! 😍😍😍
I love watching you cut open the agates. I watch 4 or 5 of your videos every day. It just is a joyful experience to see all the beautiful treasures that are revealed.❤😊❤
Not a dud in the batch!😍
Wow! So beautiful! 😊
How gorgeous! Although I was worried you were just going to zoom through the cutting (understandably, there were a lot), I just love hearing your reactions to the beauty you discover! Your pleased chortling makes my day. Thanks for a great batch! 💖
liked the one at 8:51 is nice.
Like your clips, i love beautiful agates. Thank you! Also the music is very special, who is this?
Lots of different artists, can’t remember their names
It definitely makes me happy
Excellent work as always.
This is so amazing I’m obsessed
Love just watching! 😍
11:39 my bubbles
Can't wait anymore
Yes that was an excellent batch! I love the bands! And the crystal, and the courts, and the husks, well I just love it all!
Loving the content! They are all so stunning when you get them open, I'm partial to the ones with orange bands. Thanks for sharing your excitement with us! Sending love. ❤
All of them are beautful
One of your best cutting videos! Thanks!
Ви, як завжди знаходите дуже гарні агати. Мені вони подобаються.
Yep I’d keep the last also. YEA I’D SCREAM FOR AGOTS TOO…well you might as well know I drooled on my iPad!!
Wow, absolutely beautiful! Love watching these.
So gorgeous
These agates are amazing! So beautiful. The first one, orange and white, is my favourite. ❤
They all look amazing
9:52 😮that’s GORGEOUS!!
The one at 5:99 was nice.
Agates - more than just bands! Love them thank you for sharing.
I actually applauded the last one!
Beautiful agates
Absolute stunners. I'm going to have to get some of those.
🙌
The botryoidals were nice
They polished out so beautifully is it hard to learn to polish correctly?
6:13 a slice of that one would make a GORGEOUS pendant for a necklace
Love gemology! Wowzers, what a haul! STUNNING!❤
Old Disabled House Bound Dusty Rusty Rockhound here: Those are a beautiful lot of colorful nuggies! I dig those mirror finishes!
I want to know that where did you get your rocks?
He bought them online just google them , “Malawi geodes” and the rough rock per pound will show up.
Malawi
Thank you. Loved all of them. Great results.
I'm holding my breath for the last one
very pretty
That last one was so sweet!
Awesome!
They're not ugly once so ever ! Maybe I'm that weirdo rock hound that sees nodules as beautiful inside and out ! Great video taylor
Amazingly lovely batch you got this time; it's hard to pick out a favorite. The first long one, and the smaller orange one polished up beautifully. The pale one with the orange dot in the middle was unusual. The smaller, defined orange dot surrounded by quartz looks like a tiny flower. Do you ever decided you just missed a pocket, then go back to cut a little more until the pocket is exposed?
Loved the show! Thanks from Brazil. Awesome!!
I take it back, the one 14:12 is my favorite!
they look like they have a flame on the inside. mysterious and beautiful.
Gosh I do love Malawi Agates, definitely bought the 5lb bag of Malawi Babies from Gem Shop after I first saw you cut them!
Speaking of Gem Shop - get yourself a pound or two of their Montana Moss B Grades, I have been having a BLAST with them! They’re not the most colorful but gosh, the bands and the moss that creeps into some of them - they’re gorgeous! (I have two YT shorts posted showing them if you’re curious!)
Thanks for the tips!
I have to invest in one of those saws
The one at 9:51 is my favorite so far.
I couldn't do that. If I had two halves, I'd HAVE to keep them together, even if one were better than the other. It'd be like separating kids 🙂
Love this 😂
How is it that some of the agates are not symmetrical in color when cutting through them. Specifically the one at 3:18 is orange on one side and yellow on the other. Are the two colors separated by transparent layer that we don’t see and actually not part of the same chunk?
Hmm, it's like cutting a hard-boiled egg in half. Even if you cut RIGHT down the middle, the yolk might be more on one side than the other, and that can make it look different.
Its the clarity, how the light passes through is different on one side because the colored section is thinner
@@sarahschaeffer1247 this makes a lot of sense. I wasn’t accounting for the amount that transparency would affect the two sides. I also wonder if the cutting process grinds away enough that also affects the symmetry. If the cutting blades also impact it.
I had to pause at 13:00 and tell you how hard I laughed when you cued the "falling in love" movie romance music for that 2nd to last agate.
I think I'm going to make a small Christmas and only decorate with agates. Agate Dad you should do this. If you did already I'd love to see pics.😊
did you see the fox face in the one cut?
Thanks!
WOW, thank you so much!!
wait.... you have AGATE crocs? no way.
so beautiful the first one wasand the one at 6....and at 8.36 quit nice and the one at 10.20, had been stunning if not two half ones, even the one at 13.45 was mostly with white/greyish colors, the pattern was beautiful, liked it a lot, and the inside with those colors at 15.08, gorgeous. some of the not so fab had some charm. and polished, the was shining like stars.
I LOVE all the ones you put through the first polish batch ❤ ok, and #2 from the 3rd group
Definitely a surprise to me thdt these turned out so awesome,!
Pretty Rocks!!! 🥰🥰
I loved it all. Awesome to see.
Thank you for putting in the “short site”with a click to this adventure…many times I rely on this….ps. Not one nodule ever ugly!! From a rock licker!!…..
Loved that real bad "Gangsters icecreme agates"Joke 😂❤
I’m not new to rockhounding but I am very new to cutting/polishing, and I wondered why most TH-camrs almost always cut their small pieces in half rather than try to get 2 or more cuts? I’m did my first few in one cut, mainly because that’s what I’d seen done but also because I was just getting used to my machine (tile saw with thin blade). I now make cuts depending on how I think it’ll be, and often make an off-centre cut then decide how many more to make. Maybe it’s all about what the end product will be. I enjoy your vids and you’re one of my favourite subscriptions. Cheers.
Agates are usually cut in halves in the center, biggest face or to avoid cracks/windows or best option for a nice face (parallax, banding, pseudomorphs or other structures etc.). Cutting slab after slab is frown upon the most serious agate collectors. Most hate slabs and some even don't like any damage like windows etc. on the back. Cut a nice specimen down to some slab is more popular in the US in order "to increase the value". In Europe or Asia it will cut down the value incredible. 50% and more. Slabs are more fragile, more expensive (you have to cut it two times and perhaps polish both sides), may loose color which is often based on optical depth etc. You will risk a valuable stone for perhaps more profit but often at cost of beauty. You only go for slabs when you try to improve a face when the quality is not really good and there is a chance for a better one. Or in the case of a flat and long body like you have with seam agates. And at last when your plan is to cut cabochons where you start with a slab.
When you go for the center you have the best chance of recut in case. Starting from the back may ruin your specimen because the banding usually opens up to the center and you will slice it down for nothing. Compare it with onions. Cut the in ther center will show several layer, but cut them on the edge will show just one or two wide and boring layers without "banding" The center may but rotten, but you don't see it. You waste time for cutting and lifetime of your blade.