 Welcome to the rugged rockhound today. I'm gonna make a short video on cutting some things open I've got a few things laying around that I felt like might be fun to cut open and I'm gonna cut open some of that red horn coral, right? Okay, let's take a look here. I have some here in connection because the tile saw can get pretty loud I production And an apron basically to help keep the water off me. I Have a few things in here to cut. We've got a few geodes Some red horn coral and a few odds and ends that we're gonna cut into and just see what we find. Let's get cutting Okay, I've got all my protective gear on let's get started on the first one All right, let's go ahead and start off with the geode See what's in it. That's how she looks Now don't worry if you can't see it very good right now I am going to show some nice close-up pictures at the end of the video Okay, so stay to the end and you'll see some nice close-up pictures of these So you can see them better Let's do another geode This one is more like a thunder egg It's all filled in. It's pretty though Now some of you might think whoa, I'm getting my hands so close to the saw technically. It's not a saw It's a grinder. It's a very thin grinder. It's just grinding the rock away So it can't cut you it'll just slowly grind your finger away. So don't hold your finger on it But it's not very dangerous All right, let's try a piece of red horn coral look at that Now it kind of broke off right at the end So maybe I'll try and clean that up a little bit. That looks a little better, don't it? Eventually I'll grind it down to polish it That'll be down the road though. I don't have the equipment for that yet. All right next up We'll do another geode Okay, that one looks a bit more like a geode done it Better better than the other ones so far as geodes All right Let's try another piece of red horn coral Hey, this one's really nice. Take a look at that. Cool Okay, let's do a different one this time. Let's do This this is some a Picasso marble comes from southern Utah I collect this a long time ago when I was going to school down there Anyway, let's see how the Picasso marble looks after we cut it right there. She is Pretty rock, isn't it? I Have some better pieces, but they're much bigger and I won't be able to cut those until I have a bigger saw but for now That's what we got. Let's do some more red horn coral now unfortunately sometimes You get a piece of coral that doesn't have very much red in it It happens Okay, let's do another geode. Huh? Look at that geode. It's got something yellow in it Hmm might be like calcite or just clay even I Don't know interesting Okay Got another interesting one right here Looks like maybe a piece of moss agate Let's cut it open see what's like Look at that. Definitely a very mossy. It's more like a moss jasper than a moss agate. It's still pretty cool Okay Last one is a geode Last cutter last geode. Here we go All right, I cut open the last one and it turns out it's it's a thunderegg again Not bad looks pretty nice That's all of them All right, just finished cutting everything open. There were some good things in there So I'm not so good things but let's go ahead and take a look at them all nice to cleaned up and a nice close-up picture so when you cut them It leaves a lot of little Basically dust pieces from the grinding on it and it's hard to see without getting it wet So the pictures are gonna take are gonna be with water on them So you can see kind of what it would look like if it was polished So let's go ahead and show you those close-ups That's all the specimens Some of them are pretty nice. Maybe some not so nice Overall not a bad day and it's always just fun and relaxing to cut them open. I hope you enjoyed I hope you maybe learned a few things and I'll see you on the next video