 Hello and welcome back to the Rugged Rock Hound. If you're new, welcome! I hope you subscribe. Today I am just doing some cutting. So as the days go by we've got these warm days and gas is expensive right now and things like that. I might not be able to get out rock hounding as much as I like to and so because of that I'm gonna start cutting things. I have so many rocks sitting around that still need to be cut open or at least cut to, you know, see what it looks like on an edge or something like that. I need to get cutting some of these and why not right? So when I find time start cutting some things open. So that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna get the saw set up, get a bunch of material out and just gonna start cutting stuff and we'll take a look at it together. I hope you enjoy. So I've got the saw set up right over there. So I'm gonna start cutting. I've got this whole bucket full of things to cut. There are a few things in here that are gonna be too big for the saw so I have to pass on those but we'll just start cutting and see what comes out of it. All right I decided the first thing should be a geode so I cut this and we're gonna see what it looks like together. Wow that's so much better than I thought it was gonna be because look how thin that was. Oh that's beautiful. It's got three, three bubbles, three chambers. That's really nice. Well what a what a good way to start. Next up this piece of petroid wood. So I decided to cut it that way rather than the typical across the grain just because it's a smaller piece and I thought it might look better that way although I don't know. So what I'm doing is I'm cutting it then coming cutting it over here and then I'm coming right over here without looking at it so that we both get to see what it looks like together. There we go. Wow okay yeah it's actually worth cutting it that way on smaller pieces. So if you have wood that's thin like this it's probably not good to cut it across like this where it's kind of across the grain instead follow the grain. Here we have some agatized barite. This is from when we went down to Cisco in Yellowcat and unfortunately as I was cutting it it broke right here. You can see the fracture going through it but let's go ahead and take a look and see what it looks like. It looks nice. It looks pretty much what I thought it might look like from the outside but a little better. Yeah you can see that fracture going through it and some more fractures. Here's some more petrified wood. I decided to cut it along the grain again. This I think comes from the Nevada Pinkwood area. I'll have to do a video in that area that's a really cool area. I'll get around to doing a video but yeah it's just I think from the Nevada Pinkwood area. Whoa that is so much darker inside than I thought it was going to be. Oh that's pretty. Yeah look at that. This is like white on that end. Oh that's beautiful. Here's a piece of Jasper. I don't remember which location this came from and unfortunately the top of it just fractured off into pieces. So I cut it. You can kind of see what it looks like on the outside so I assume that's what it looks like on the inside. Pretty much but there's that cool little purple splotch right in the middle. Oh that's interesting. Okay next we have this little agate. I don't remember where I collected it. It was probably a while back but it's really nice. It's kind of got that volcanic exterior and then you've got a little bit of banding you can see go through it and you can now see the little there. It's got a little bit of a blue color to it. Okay here we go. Whoa look at all those circles in it. Well at the same time look at all those fractures going through it. Wow this stuff is I don't know ready to fall apart. Oh but those circles are really cool. Here's the next one. So it's an agate that was kind of transparent through here but then on this side it kind of turned white on the edge anyway. So we'll see what it looks like unfortunately it's cloud cover right now so I don't know how will they see. That's pretty interesting. I've got some red stuff going on in the middle that I wasn't expecting because I don't really see a whole lot of that from the outside. Oh that's interesting. Okay this right here is an agate that I found. I believe it was down in southern Utah by the town of Enterprise. There's some interesting agates and jaspers in that area and you can see the nice banding on the outside here. So yeah let's see what we got. That is uglier than I thought it was going to be. While we still got the nice banding on the outside that center is well interesting. So here's some more of the agatized barite. So last time you know I cut it with the grain and it looked pretty nice but pretty much is what I saw on the outside. So I thought let's cut across it and see if it looks any different. Huh I thought you would see all the little individual crystals. You don't really see that. Well that's interesting. So today we're going to end with a piece of petrified wood. I decided to cut it along this way and it was pretty fractured so lots of pieces kind of fell off of it. Well that happens. Let's take a look at the inside. Oh oh that's nice. Oh the colors. It's very dark. Some nice patterns. That's a pretty nice piece. It feels good to cut through some of the stuff that has been sitting around for a while and those are some pretty nice pieces. I only got through a few of them. I'm just going to do this as I have time. Some days you have half an hour. Some days you have an hour so or more. So today we're just doing a short one. I hope you enjoyed it. There was some really nice stuff and I've got tons more to cut. So I'm going to try and maybe make this a regular thing that I upload one of these videos maybe at a different point in the week. Just to add some more stuff for you guys to enjoy seeing some of the stuff I've got sitting around cutting it open and just that thrill of what's inside of it. So I hope you enjoyed and remember there is treasure everywhere.