Cutting Lucky Strike Thundereggs // How Lucky Will I Get Cutting These?
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Let's cut a pile of thundereggs from the Lucky Strike Mine and see how many good eggs we can get!
From the testing here it would seem that about 60% of tennis ball sized thundereggs from this bed are worth keeping which is a pretty decent percentage I think considering that eggs of this size are very manageable to cut and polish vs. some of the much larger eggs which require larger equipment.
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For the love of Thundereggs! Thank you :-)
I understand what your doing because you are looking for specimens. I slab, cab, and make rings, so i could use most of them. I would cut off the rhyolite and use the centers. Each of us have their own reasons to keep or dump. But no matter what, keep having fun! Be happy, safe and stay healthy 😷⚒
Some great pieces in there! And I love the cover on your saw. Looks so much cleaner than the usual trim saw setup. I might have to rig something like that up for my cheapo tile saw...
It's very nice to have a hood on the saw.
If you sell any of your items you can always auction off the questionable ones or just throw them to people as freebies.
Unfortunately I don't sell any rocks but I a monthly giveaway for the channel members as a thank you.
Watch all your videos! I don't really comment, because I usually watch on my TV. But I watch every one! Sometimes, more than once!! Support for fellow Washingtonian!
Great stuff!! You are one of the easiest, and most informative, of people to watch! Thank you, for sharing!!!
Thank you very much!
I really love your thunder egg videos... you should try some rain x on the Inside of your saw... as always great job and thank you for sharing.
Thank you very much!
Another great video. I really like how you change them up. A trip here, and rock show there, info sharing and now a show and tell. LOVE IT!! Thank you so much for all you do.
Thank you! I'm glad you like the variety show here!
👍 There is nothing better than cleaning up the shop and garden tossing rocks.
Very awesome thundereggs. All of them were so cool and unique. I’m a thunderegg junkie. Lol.
You could make a lot of money slicing up your discards for lapidary artists. We work on smaller areas of stones so we work around fractures and take our time on rhyolite polishing. Just saying…. 😁. I think we are opposite when we look at a rock. I look for shapes within and your looking at it in the perspective of a specimen. Don’t get me wrong, I keep a lot of specimens too.
Enough of my drooling over your discards. 🫣😆
Thanks for sharing this awesome episode ❤
Stay Crystal 💫
Mari
Maybe someday but for the time being I'm not interested in selling rocks at all.
I hope you have a lovely weekend!
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Just sayin’ lol. Batches of rough rock sold could fund maintenance of machines, gas and food for your adventures, new equipment, microscope upgrade, etc…. ❤️
I really liked the yellow one you threw. Just think, they are tens of thousands, if not millions, of years old and are tossed in a reject pile. Mine decorate my entrance garden outside of my front entry. They adds interest, along with other rocks from all over. I love watching you cut, but man, your fingers are close to the saw. That wouldn't fly in woodworking.😁
Lapidary blades are`nt as aggressive as woodworking blades, you could maybe get a cut if your is not careful.
Called out again! Me : oh I'd slab that dud on a trim saw. Looking around my shop ya might think I did. I have a chip bucket where my broken or excess goes, maybe I'll tumble them or mostly, out to the garden with them. You really had a not bad of an average on the size ratio. It is a lot easier to see the difference in usable material between the size spectrum. There you go again helping people stay informed.
I think if you are about 50/50 or better for the cuts you're doing pretty well.
Beautiful sharing 👍
I'm glad you liked it!
Love your videos. I’m thinking, ohmygosh, please don’t discard those, send them to me. I’m in Kentucky and would love any kind if thunderegg that you guys went and found. There’s nothing like that here, not even close
Wow! That was a lot of eggs! lol! And i have to agree with you, that those you tossed are not worth your time to polish and keep. However, it would be cool the break the chalcedony out of the rhyolite, and keep it for future projects or even to tumble it! Because the chalcedony is really beautiful in most of those. Just a thought. And if you dont tumble, give them to Jeremiah. Hes close and does a fabulous job on tumbling, and if asked, i bet he would love to try tumbling thunderegg cores. Again, just a thought. But all in all, i think those lucky strike eggs are worth the effort. The good to dud ration is high enough, that it is wee worth the time and effort and money for the lucky strike thunderegg digs. Thanks for sharing all your eggs with us! They are really beautiful!
I think the ratio here is worth it, I for one would love go back to the Lucky Strike if they open up again this summer.
May I suggest you save those discarded T-Eggs for $5 grab bags for kids at rock shows you do. Kids would love those! Parents always give some money to buy something at a rock show. They would go nuts getting almost any of those.
Lucky strike…. ok another place to check out in may lol! that one at 11:10 kinda reminds me of the shape of my home country of Canada. so if you decide to not do anything with it or perhaps want to hang onto it for a lil rock swap when I get down there….😂. these things are so much fun to cut. it’s like Kinder Surprise for us rock junkies lol!
Luck Strike is a very cool mine to visit!
I think if you come down here you will have plenty of rocks without taking my cracked up ones.
I do look forward to meeting you down here if our paths cross.
Your throw aways are pretty too, even though not as good as you like. You should take some to schools for teaching future rockhounds. Using it as a teaching experience. I've learned so much from your channel.
Do you really think a school would want a bunch of broken, cracked low quality rocks donated? I really think that would be on the bottom of the list of things a school would like.
Breaks my heart you're going to discard any of those. I live in Europe and I've never seen one.... :o(
We have them is decent abundance here. Not sure where in Europe you are but Germany and Turkey have thundereggs.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I live in Portugal. I have never seen one and I don't think you can find them here. Plenty of granite, quartz, sedimentary rocks in the south part, and plenty of minerals. But definitly nothing like that.
I'm sure your discards are priceless for many people... Obviously, shipping is a problem for someone in Europe, but still...
Man your discards are nice. I think a lot of those would be nice to practice on or experiment with some questionable ideas. Great to gift to other hounds if things don't go good. Regardless I'm jealous of your ability to discern your good n bad stuff. Think most of those I still would hold on to in my state of work, so eye of the beholder a lot I think. Just because it's not great quality or rare material some may love it. Great video again and shop is looking nice n streamlined. Call me if your discard pile ever needs a little leveling off hehehe.
Very nice eggs brother!!🇺🇸⚒
Thank you.
Awesome eggs great video! Good job!!
Thank you!
I would like to explain the high-grading of this material that I showed a little more. I showed an important process that many rockhounds should be doing more of in my opinion and its not a process I have seen someone talk through before on video so I included it.
For me the whole point of cutting thundereggs and looking for good specimens to have is so that they can be displayed and enjoyed, the good ones can be a challenge at times to perfectly polish and the low quality, porous, ugly and broken ones are simply not worth it when you have a backlog of good ones waiting to be worked. I believe that far too many people hold on to an excessive amount of low quality rocks with the intention of doing something with them that will never happen, the reason I think that is because I have seen my fair share of estates get sold with 100+ five gallon buckets of low to mid-tier material waiting to be worked and it never happened in that persons life time and will likely never happen in the persons life time who purchased those buckets.
At the end of the day some rocks are not worth the time, money and energy it takes to work them.
Very good point! Well said!
@@scottlambright9315 Thank you.
I agree one hundred percent. I don’t work them, don’t have the equipment to, nir will i ever have it. I just want to own a thunderegg you guys found. 🙂
Just now finding your channel and gave you a sub. We really enjoy cutting hollow geodes we find. Enjoyed the video and good luck on your next hunt!
Welcome! :)
Oh my, I understand not worth your time, but I’m not polishing or anything like that. I would just love the fact i had one you found
I'd love to have some of the thundereggs you've put out to make room for the better one's. There awesome in their own way. People have different reasons and the knowledge to make them look really cool keep of wh eles can see. Thats a fantastic bunch of thundereggs. Why don't you put them in gardens around your place.
The eggs I don't want I slab up, sometimes they come out better than doing a half an egg that you don't like.
I will than cab them .. Or trade off for different material....
I appreciate this! I think that finished thundereggs are often undervalued. 12 of 20...Wondering what that brings your price per pound to? (Not including travel $ and time too dig/cut) Sometimes it can be a great deal to buy them already polished from known localities.
If they are $3lb, tossing 50% almost doubles that, add to it all the other costs and the costs of polishing, personally I would have to charge a lot for a finished product, more than I think anyone would want to spend.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding the hunt experience is also impossible to put a value on.
I see what you're saying about the really small ones not really being worth it. Same thing with the bigger ones that have cool patterns going on but are fractured. If someone only had a few, they could be happy with them. But, when you have a bucket full and are high grading the best to polish. I really liked all the ones (12) you decided to put off to the side. Definitely were the best keepers. There were some red and black ones you showed in the beginning that were really cool. I would say you've had good luck from Lucky Strike.
Thanks for sharing sir, much appreciated! I sure do love the variety we find inside thundereggs and the samples from that mine are truly distinctive and in my humble opinion quite beautiful! So, one thing of note you might or might not have experienced by now but when I cut multiple cuts on my trim saw similar to yours, my wrists end up with deep grooves from the metal edge where you stick your hands through the plastic shield. A small price to pay to lapidary gods to immerse ones self in beautiful mother earth!!! Thanks again for sharing Jared, have a great rest of your week!
After this cutting session I added some tubing over the edge to protect against it cause I have quite the mark after this.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Great idea...maybe I just shouldn't be so lazy? haha
You got some good ones. Personally, I like the smaller ones. They cut quicker and you can get some nice ones. I guess if you are digging them, go for the big ones, but keep them all. The big ones are expensive to buy and cut a dud. Another great show, thank you
The bigger the egg, the bigger the gamble. It sure does stink when you cut a big one and its a dud.
I've cut a bunch that were just solid rhyolite balls. At least you got some fill in each.
I don't think I have gotten a single rhyolite ball from Lucky Strike.
I see that it can definitely be a crap-shoot with those lucky strike thundereggs, it looks like your ten inch trim saw is perfect for the smaller thundereggs, the cover must be nice for controlling the over spray, very cool see ya on the next one
It does really speed up the process of cutting these smaller eggs. This would have taken forever with the slab saw.
I would take any of your discards. We don’t have access to thunder eggs
Great video, you're very inspiring. Thank you for what you do 😊
Thank you!
At least the odds are better than with the Rimrocks! My favorite is the one with the white in it @13:39 ! Super rad!
That they are. The vast majority of rimrock eggs are bad but at least those ones are free!
Those are cool.
Thank you!
Hi there. I'm back looking at the geods you cut a while back. I love that one that I think was a solid water line. Would you or did you sell it?. I've watched your amazing adventurers around where you live and in the Washington state area. Love the things you find explain what you've got. Let me know please 😊. Thank you so much for sharing all you can. ❤️ and happy new year.
Generally speaking, I do not sell any rocks. However, I do give them away to people that support this project on Patreon.
you should take your less than ideal rocks and make a concrete or epoxy table table 😉
That would be a fun project to do some day.
I'm with the group thinking your process might feel rushed. I'd spend time removing some of the host rock and find cabbing material within. The rock in hand may be better than the next one you bend to pick up.
I've made some beautiful cabs from thundereggs and wasted some time on some real disasters. It's a tough call sometimes.
With so many rocks in this world spending time on the disasters is just not worth it.
If a person looks at the rocks that they have and you have two options, a pile of good perfect material and a pile of broken, cracked and lower tier material which would you pick from for a project?
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I guess it depends upon the project.
lucky strike means if you ever get a nice one you have been lucky.
You could send the cracked ones to Jeremiah and let him tumble them.
He lives like 15 minutes from me. I think I asked him if he wanted to do a batch of them awhile ago and he said no. I should see if he changed his mind at all.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding that's right. Since you both live so far from me, I forget you live so close together.
I been finding some crazy looking quartz red and yellow
Sell the discards cheap. They can be cut more & used for pendants
I really don't want to ever sell rocks so I don't think that's going to happen but maybe some day I just let someone come take anything they want from behind my house.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding understood 👍
Hey great video! Instead of tossing, why not tumble those small eggs?
Thank you!
I do not have a rock tumbler.
I collect specimens from around the world. Just having a piece that is not perfect works for me, it still possesses all the qualities. Naming them and where they are from is important. Can you sell the smaller ones? Not too heavy to ship?
I'm sorry but I do not sell rocks.
Did you custom make your slab saw splash guard or purchase it? I have been trying to find something for my 6” Hi Tech .
This came with the saw. I have seen people make them out of plexiglass or even a clear plastic storage bin.
Don't put them in the discard pile. Use them for giveaways. I'd be thrilled to get any of them!
My Mom is taking me to lucky strike mine when I quit heroin to keep me busy after treatment.
I wish you all the luck with getting and staying clean!
How do you hear about lucky strike being open or not? I've wanted to go as long as I've lived in oregon but they have been saying [current year] was their last year for years only to find out later that it wasn't the last year.
They announce on their facebook page if they will be open or not.
Why don’t you sell off the ones you would throw away?
I just don't want to sell rocks, its not what I want to do with my time.
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Hello where you from?
Why do you ask?
I get that you have a refuse pile. I don't have one though. Why not? I give my "less than desirable" materials away to other rockhounds who are just getting started. I've been collecting for as long as you've been alive, so those that I keep have to be very high end. I still would have polished most of what you are disposing of to give away to the kids. The kids aren't as particular as you are and most don't have anything. Is it worth your time? Only you can decide that. I've cut thousands of rocks over the years and donated over a thousand pieces to the local children's hospital. They have a classroom there for long term patients and give the rocks away as rewards. There's nothing wrong with having a discard pile, so don't take this wrong. To each their own. Someone once said to me "You've high-graded your collection so much, even the decent ones are not good enough for you". I took that to heart and started passing them on to others for their collections. Once again, another good video. Thanks.
I would like to do that at some point in the future but I feel very stretched thin at this point with all the rocks stuff. I need more hours in the day.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I completely understand. Even now that I'm retired, I question, how did I work full time, then do all my rock stuff too. Not to mention home maintenance, kids, wife, animals, etc. At least your SO enjoys doing this with you. Mine just wants to see the finished jewelry!
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