Polishing an Agate Nodule | Lapidary
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- For this video I am polishing an Lake Superior agate nodule from its rough state without bands to a polished specimen. Let me know what you think it turned out to be!
I polished this agate with a dremel rotary tool and a flex shaft attachment. Using grinding diamond bits/600 grit diamond bits. I also use wet sandpaper from 1000 grit up to 3000 grit and finish with cerium oxide.
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Another great video and what a cool box of treasures ✌❤💎
Thanks! It was a great gift!
missing Lake Superior agates recently moved from MN to ND. I’ve watched a few of your videos . Subscribing since Katy Did mentioned you’re try to get your first 1000
@@norwegianbee849 oh that's so nice of her! Was that in a recent video? I usually don't watch videos or respond on weekends, try to take a break and focus on family time! Thanks for watching too, I really appreciate jt!
Yeah she did it on her 500 subscribers video
That last one was STUNNING!!! It looked like the Antarctic- the ocean with an iceberg….
Awesome video! You did really well polishing that agate! Stoked that the package got to you in one piece 😁 The large agate that was polished was from the Ashburton river here in New Zealand and the carnelian is the one I found out looking for crab fossils. The dark pet wood was from the Conway river. Keep the videos coming, love them!
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Mamlambo
Man I read that comment and heard your voice as I did. Haha! You’re a good man Brother! Seriously!
Thanks buddy, I still cant get over how generous that was, will be treasured and in my possession as long as I am around!
Wow dude ; beautiful gifts ; ) I would have cried if someone had sent me that beauty ; looks like the sea and the waves and all my agates are from the beach . Im a little old lady of 59 but rescue agates when I can haha.
That large polished agate looks like mountains and a lake. It is beyond stunning!
Good Morning Taylor...what a great way to start the morning..a cup of coffee and an agatedad video.
Haha thanks! Speaking of that, I need more coffee 😴
My daughter is now a seasoned Ol pro at rock hounding , and just last night on the way up to the lake, she makes a quick pit stop off the freeway and finds two full near palm sized beautiful agates, (slightly smaller than your new parallel /gravity banded bluish colored one) nonchalantly tosses them on the bed! She doesn’t understand ppl can search a lifetime for these beauties.. thank you for sharing !!
Hahaha jealous!!! Thats how it goes though, tell her congratulations from me 😊🤘
Love the big agate. I am from New Zealand and Mamlambo is my hero.
Hes cool 😎
Great video polishing and I share your excitement of gifts. Beautiful
Wow, so beautiful. Oh most looks like a lake picture with ice. So beautiful, what a gift.
Against the grain!! ..or lines.. Excellent! Thank you!🔥
Nice work on your nodule.Your largest gift agate looks like your frozen winter lakes that u hunt...snowy banks and glassy waters. So pretty.
Always a good watch
Thanks a lot for your video
Enjoyed this one Taylor, thanks for sharing your goodies with everyone.
Anytime!
Taylor I would just adore a jar of your agates!
More giveaways will come!
That large agate looked like a storm on the Ocean. Mamlambo is an awesome person. His fossil crabs are amazing. Love your agates. They are beautiful!
Thanks!!
Another gr8 vid Taylor xx those white agates ar amazing xx
Thanks! Idk why but the white ones are just so amazing!
WOW. That last polished agate from NZ. Looks like a phenomenal painting of the mountains and water in front. I gasped when you flipped it around to show the polished side.
Ok. Reading more comments. Definitely iceberg 🤓
Its a pretty neat agate!
Awesome Mosaic Water Level.
You could call the last rock, an iceberg picture. Truly lovely.
Hey there Agate Dad thanks for the awesome videos you and rookie rockhounding have just encouraged me so much to embrace my rockhounding hobby and make my own videos
Yes!!! So glad you are! I am literally looking at your channel right now on my computer and subscribing! Really looking forward to seeing what you put out!
Nice poishing....also cool gift luv the waterline.....who hoo!!!
👍👍👍Hello, friend! I'm glad you're making great progress with the stone.I congratulate you on the happy moment of receiving a parcel from your friend Mamlambo. Beautiful variety of stones will complement your collection!👏👏👏
Hey friend! It was a great time seeing all those beautiful pieces! Hes a great guy and had a phenomenal channel!
Wow! Nice friend! The big one withe fractured looks so much like a photo or a painting!
Hola Amigo!!! Las agatas son preciosas!!! Muchas Felicidades!!! Un fuerte abrazo desde España!!!
Very Nice my friend... I like this videos ... Inside the rocks.. 👏👏👏🙏💎
Thanks! Appreciate you checking it out!
The big one looks like a ocean beach scene. Beautiful.❤
It really does, such an amazing gift!
It looks like the ocean with ice mountains...antarctica?? Beautiful!! Thanx for sharing!
You betcha!
Great job polishing Taylor. When an agate has a rind all over like th as at, it's always a lot of fun finding out what's inside!
Thanks, it was very fun, I have a few more that I should do the same too and find out what is going on in there!
Hey there! I live in south GA literally by the Florida line which is prime country for agatized coral. And many small ones I've tumbled, but unless they're wet they still don't have that shine and same color. This worked great for the small solid agate that i tumbled! Thank you!
The last one looks like an iceberg reflecting into the water. Very cool!
That's a pretty good description!
That agate polished up really nicely. And what a great collection of new stones!
Thanks! And yes, I am trying to figure out how to display all these treasure I've been gifted since starting this channel!
What an awesome friend to send you such beautiful specimens and that last agate is stunning!!
Very lucky to receive that gift, so nice of him to share those amazing treasures!
Good day AD and thank you for the new content post from up there in the northern part of the states! Got to wake up and watch a video before facing the day, which is much appreciated!👍 Really am enjoying watching others go through the process of exposing the hearts of these magnificent chunks of earth! Regardless of rock, mineral or fossil!!! 😁 Another idea...if I may would be to recommend getting a set of jewelers magnifying glasses, I know for me it really truly helped me see all the scratches at each level and have become dependent on them to get the best quality depth of finish to the stone but sometimes going to 30x magnification is just overdoing it.🤣 (it looks almost like there is an 1/8" of glass layered over the top of the specimen when done to 15000-30000 grit) Super spectacular and generous gifts from Mamalambo, great channel with lots of content to spend a whole day geeking out on....much like what you are doing with your channel sir with lots of content, kudos and good stuff all around, thanks for the hard work making it happen for us nerdy tubers. Off to make the dough, hope you have a super week ahead my friend~
I agree, love seeing their innards lol or hearts to sound more poetic 😅 it really is fun slowly getting better polishing, that one was tough because it had those sagenite streaks..? In it, and made it almost look like pitting on the face and other parts looks like scratches but it was those stinking lines! Threw me off a lot! Good times though, had a lot of fun working with it. Thanks so much for watching bud!
Great care package!
It sure was!
God's creations never cease to amaze me. Absolute masterpieces can be found within an agate if sought.
I agree completely!
That was cool to see the inside of the agate
Thanks! Was hi hoping for bands but it's all good seeing those sagenite sprays!
I like your grinding setup. Clever! Nice polish, too. Your friend sent some great stuff. I love fossils and pet wood. TFS
Yeah that lap well has been fun to work in! I've seen some other people make it and use it too!
This makes me want to polish up a nodule...lol. I may find some interesting ones! Thanks for sharing!
Do it!! Would love to see your methods too!
Totally awesome
You're awesome 👊🎤 (mic drop)
Sagenite crystals can appear in many types of agates. It looks like a moss agate with sagenite crystals. Really dig the channel. Thanks for sharing
Thanks dent!
Dang! That is the BEST water level agate I have ever seen 10:00
Right lol
That big agate looks like an arctic ocean with a big ice berg in the back.
I can see that, love hearing all the descriptions of what it looks like, so cool!
winnievanorden1 oh I can see it!
Those are beautiful rocks.. 😍
Cool.. lucky you! 👍
Thanks!
What an awesome package from Mamlambo! Hells yeah dude! I'm gonna hv to step my package up. Haha!
I really think I see sm sagenite in that agate Taylor. It is absolutely beautiful. You did a great job!😎🐾
I agree on both the awesome package and sagenite, light bands! Always a gamble when you don't know what's in there so at least there was something! Thanks so much for watching!
Wow, that waterline agate - so gorgeous! Mamlambo seems like a great guy. :) Glad you are keeping busy in the warmth.
He sure is, and I sure am trying! It's been nice the past few days though.
I don’t have the patience for sandpaper polishing, but you did an amazing job!
Wow! So excited to find your channel! I just got into rockhounding and I didn’t know there were channels like this around
Thats awesome and thanks for subscribing! There's a lot of amazing channels out there, check out #thefinders , lots of good folks!
So kind of Mamlambo to send you such beautiful gifts. I already follow him and know him, just getting to know you, Agate Dad. Enjoyed you video! ☺️
Yeah it was very generous of him, and thank you so much! I look forward to more chats :) have a good day!!
Agate Dad , looking forward to seeing more of your videos. I'm an agate, Chalcedony, petrified wood enthusiast myself! I must admit I collect many different things from nature. Is 't what God created so very beautiful? You and yours be safe during this pandemic and enjoy your collecting to it's fullest. ☺️
@@lizzymoore54 it really is amazing, I agree! Thanks so much for watching and coming along on adventures, It is so amazing seeing all that God created.
omg wow I had to stop on it an just looked at that amazing rock
I actually think it's very possibly both. I have some pieces that are both Plume and Saganitic. Especially if there is one part or side that has a sandpapery/jasper/quartzite feel to it. I can't get over how unique LSAs are.
Fun video! I might have opened the other end of that agate though, if there's bands, they'll be in the translucent end.
Yeah maybe! I know I opened up one that wasnt translucent at all and it had bands in it, you never know with these lol roll those dice and even if you re cutting, cut one way and get one agate, cut another and get something different! Makes it fun when you cut or polish the better side and get the good stuff!
What a beautiful gift. WOW That last one looks like an iceberg in the ocean. I went a subbed both of Mamlambo's channels.
It really was great and I am glad! Hes got great stuff to show!
Always enjoy your videos. What type of light do you use to check the agates?
I've been using a small mag light and occasionally shine the beam in my eyes.
I have AMD and get eye injections periodically. In my last check up I was told I had done some additional damage as if I stared into the sun. The glaring light came to mind.
I like yours is smaller so it shouldn't pose the same problem.
Thats what I use too! I have a small Milwaukee light
New subscriber here! I love your videos! This was very informative
Thank you!
Awesome gifts! 1000 subs jar, you are almost at 97k!!!
It’s crazy dude!
@@AgateDad congratulations!
Well seeming how i just found my first...real agate ...light shines through it really nice...I'm going to have to subscribe now and watch all your vids 😁 I love using a dremel...think I found an excuse to get back outdoors...then back in to grind for the night...
Welcome aboard! It really is a full circle hobby :)
@@AgateDad my kids...and I come home with pockets of rocks this will be fun to do with my boys...I've always appreciated a nice smooth polished rock...doesn't have to be crystal to be a gem...😄
Exactly :)
Very cool video my friend big like buddy 👍👍
Thanks John!
In a year you’ve gone from 500 subs to 18.7K! awesome. aND informative. 🪨
I think it’s 1.5 years but extremely blessed to have been shown such love and support
@@AgateDad AND he’s honest. whattaguy!!
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Wow....such incredible beauty in your gifts!! What a deeply beautiful exchange to share. I hope one day I can send you some awesome finds from Ontario. I just have to figure out what I have so I can label them properly! My orbital polisher, my Dremel, all my fun extension bits, eye, ear and face protection have all arrived this week :) Heading out in the next day or two to get my wet tile saw..and then I'm in! Going to put it all out there, and trust that others won't think I know everything I'm finding or doing haha ;) Hoping my passion will be able to contribute something of value to this incredible topic. Cheers, and thank you!! LeeAnn :)
I would love to see your treasures! SO excited for you!! I am looking forward to getting some sort of polishing system! Are you going to make a channel?!?!
@@AgateDad Yes I sure am :) I think I am going to call it 'Rockin' Ontario' :) Haven't set it up yet, but now that I'm done teaching for the school year, my time and brain has opened up for me to focus on this new project ;) I am so excited to get things up and running - finally! ;) Take care! See you around soon :)
Well when you do, send me a link to your channel or videos, ill be an instant subscriber!
I got to say that is one cool workstation that you have built! that big blue agate at 10:00 was AMAZING!!
Thanks! It's worked out really well!
@@AgateDad Where I fish down here there are suppose to be cold-water agates but I have no clue what to look for I guess they are in the creeks in my area
@@SlayermikeFishingandMORE That sounds like a blast, just gotta start sifting through material i guess, are your creeks sandy or more mucky?
Gorgeous agates!
Thanks Tracy!!
That looks like the skip an atom agate,, the very first after the fossil shells?? According to the Minnesota Rocks & Minerals a field guide , it’s identical to their full color photo pics .. it’s the swirling quartz throughout, the book says is the most difficult type to understanding formation?? That’s amazing gifts , I’m in shock , too right now
I wonder if new Zealand has skip em agates??
Great video, I'm trying to get into surface polishing agates as I just got my first diamond saw/ table top tile saw and have literally hundreds of agates from MN and SD, cut in half with the ruff edge that comes with the saw cut. Bubble gum, LSA, praire, and even some Fairburn agates. Did you really hand polish one small agate for two hours? Where are you purchasing your powder polish for surface polish. Any hints would be great. Some much to figure out, not sure where to start, thanks!
If you whet that sand paper and put it on a piece of flat glass it will stick right to it. It’s also easier to us a larger piece of sand paper.
All the rocks are beautiful specimen. I'll get petrified wood someday!
They sure are!
At 10:52 when you held that stone a certain way, it looked almost like a winter scene. the quarts at the top looked like an iceberg background and the blue lines on the bottom looked like frosty water in still motion
Had I seen that rock on the beach or the river bank...it would still be there. I don't know how that was found but I would definitely would have missed it,.
Nodules definitely look different than other agates, I love me some nodules
Beautiful gifts. 💜🤩🤩🤩💜
They sure were!!
Hi Taylor! What type of bit are you using? And will grinding stones do the same thing?
The water agate looked like a volcano and lake scene in winter
Oh awesome description! I love when they look like scenery, so amazing what nature can create!
I like your showing of the Dremel polishing inside that cool polishing cabinet! Did yo make that yourself? It's kinda BRILLIANT!! Love it how even the little unusual ones come out so pretty! I really enjoy your videos & thanks for taking those of us out here in the lockdown world along with you!
I did :) I actually made a video on how to make it too! Thank you so much Sally and I am so happy to bring you along on all our adventures :)
Wow that big agate is so cool! How long do you usually sandpaper with each stage??
With this one it only took me about 15 minutes! So hopefully that continues because 2 hours of sanding straight is tiring haha
What do you do with all the rocks you collect and polish?
Put them on display or in bins
I would love to send you some silicified oysters from soke Suwannee River creeks and some Withlacoochee River agatized coral!
Sounds amazing! Reach out via Facebook/instagram and we can work out details 😁 those sound soo cool!
I have so much petrified wood and agates from Cali!
Lucky dog!!
I have to admit, I do love the look of a nicely polished agate! And contest aside, I think you should send Mamlambo (in New Zealand) a package of Lake Superior Agates & some of our very own Upper Mid-West, U.S.A. petrified wood! I'll help gather, and contribute to your package if you'd like! & thanks for another informative video! I'm guessing you've got a "mossy"... But Idk. I'm not that experienced with them yet. :P I'm always eager to see your next upload! Thanks again! & Good luck!
I'm actually sending him a package back with that exact idea, minus the pet wood. Hard to compete with those beauties though!
u need some pet wood i got plenty. lol bout all we find in central Ms.
I bet its pretty sweet, do you know from what kind of tree?
not sure it looks like it was a ceder or pine of some sorts, i can send pics of pet wood though.
Interesting, that would be sweet!
Where can I get one of those cool wet Sanders ? That’s awesome way better than doing it by hand takes forever
Yeah it takes forever, which wet sander are you tslking about?
Agate Dad . I I used to work on Granite counter tops sinks whatever granite . And we used the air wet Sanders but there to big for agates etc . I’m going with a dremmel . The wife OK it so I’m in . Ps the beaches are ok you just have to hit the right beach it depends on how the tide hits said area
Agate Dad . I I used to work on Granite counter tops sinks whatever granite . And we used the air wet Sanders but there to big for agates etc . I’m going with a dremmel . The wife OK it so I’m in . Ps the beaches are ok you just have to hit the right beach it depends on how the tide hits said area
Oh for sure
Can you advise which bits to buy? Cheap is bad, but is there a set of good ones ? How do I assess quality?
The tusk is probably dentalia shell
Grinding agate with a Dremel. That’s patience. No clubs or cutters in your area?
Not sure if theres clubs, even if there was, im not going to go hang at a club and be away from my family.. i do most of my cutting/polishing while my kid is asleep.
Agate Dad - Half the fun of cutting is socializing with like-minded cutters. You can compare and learn, and rockhounds are the best people in the world. Club meetings are only once a month, usually considered a great excuse to get away from house and spouse, pre-covid at least.
I agree it would be fun talking to like minded folk, I personally enjoy being at home and with the spouse, she's the best teammate and is a great friend!
Agate Dad - You, sir, are a lucky man! Keep cutting!
I absolutely am 🥰
There's definitely some sagenite in there, but you could probably call it a mossy agate too.
I agree, very thrown on putting my finger on a specific one, it's funny, sometime depending on how you cut or polish, you can get different kinds lol
#mamlamborocks, it's a great channels and he Seams like a great guy and hauls some massive and amazing things.
The colours are different on the inside of that nodule, will you polish it back the whole way around?
Maybe someday, with still being new at this I am just honing on making windows right now, but i would love to do a complete polish someday! I have a few that would be perfect for that!
Now I have to go through my rocks all over again! Aaaaah! 😂
Save it for winter!!
Did I miss the part where the bits used are mentioned/named?
Not sure, I know the bits are up on my amazon storefront. www.amazon.com/shop/agatedad
How much is the Agate stone?
It looks like glacier ice with the ocean below
¿Se podrá hacer una mesada de cocina con Ágatas?
Get you a cab machine!
I'd love to!
I like that table!!! That is something nice to have but I'm sure it cost a pretty penny
Which table?
@@AgateDad what you were using to polish the agate
@@MrsOx-jz9fg like the pink stuff? Cerium oxide
Hey...he said in another response that he built the lap table...so maybe not too many $? Said he did a vid about it
Lol I must have read the comments wrong, yeah I built that table. Its the video with the thumbnail "under $100"
Iceberg quartz agate is what I thought at first
Heck yes!
WOW
10:04 - it's the south-east of Australia and an almost perfect South Island of NZ
What are you doing with it? $$$$$$$$
just looked up the channel you received it from . . . Blown away . . .
Just spent yesterday exploring a couple of rivers in the Coromandel - looking for some crystals with a daughter.
the best find was a 200mm x 150mm brown crystal with a kiwi shaped hollow surrounded by clear crystals (at the Thames Hospice shop)
uploaded a short video here ua-cam.com/video/4EufDUG9ctQ/v-deo.html
Are you talking about the gift??
Amazing bro I have I also these types of stones I loved to collect but I don't their names completely can u help me out ☺️???
Where are they from?
@@AgateDad from Pakistan I have known such names like Petoskey stone limestone fossils stones
Can help to find out names I Wana send u pics
Do you know if volcanic rock can be tumbled?
I'm sure but its very soft...so idk how well it would go
Thank you. I didnt think it could done but I wanted to ask an expert. I appreciate your quick reply
Not an expert lol promise!
@@AgateDad if your not you sure are close. Your finds and techniques are amazing 👏
Oh you are being WAY too kind! I think after a few decades I might be considered an expert...but probably not!
I love rocks 😍😍😍😍😍
How to sell gemstone please telme
I hope u have a shopee store or online store
I don’t yet
What bits
Comment faire pour acheter un outil ?
Are you talking about the dremel?