A Few Polishing Videos From Earlier This Year, I Got Sick.

Hello and welcome back to the Rugged Rock Hound. Not rock counting this this time. Sorry. I We've got a lot of family stuff going on. I just didn't get a chance to go out rockounding. I'm going to instead do a polishing video again. I know. So, here's what I've got from last time that I still hadn't gone through yet. Just a few little things I can play around with. And here's some new stuff I brought. And I think, yeah, some fossils and agots and stuff. I think I'll start with this red agot that I think Yeah, I'm pretty sure that one came from Leavan. I think the goal with this one is to kind of round this dome this from here to there. That might break off. We'll see. But try and dome it like this and dome it this way as well. And then just polish that side. Then maybe grind this flat so we can just set it down. But yeah, let's start with that. Away we go. Wow. That is looking pretty nice, isn't it? Yeah. So, we got a nice curve shape to it. Nice dome there. And yep, sure enough, the piece that was here broke off like I thought. There it is. But it's looking really good. Okay, I'll dome that a little bit more. Run it down the line. Get it all polished up. Bring it back in. Here it is. That is some nice looking stuff, isn't it? Red and black mixed. I can see just a few tiny scratch few scratches this way that I didn't quite get. That's all right. That's not bad. Otherwise though, it looks really nice, doesn't it? Well, that's a good start. What should we do next? How about this piece? So, they'll go with this piece. I think you got this nice green rind, and it's partially translucent. So, I wonder if I ground down enough here, what it might expose there. Now, it's shaped cuped this way, but I want to dome it this way. So, that's going to be a bit tricky. So, as you can see, I've ground off quite a bit the stuff that was just jutting out on the edges. Not a whole lot that I can see yet in the middle. Definitely been seeing plumes a little bit here along the edge. Yeah, I still think I'm going to want to grind more of this to get further down. So, it's it's going to end up being kind of thin. Well, let's keep going at it. Look at that. I think that's as far as I'm going to take it. It's just that question of how far to go without going too far. I like that though. It's like green vapors. Okay. Well, we'll go ahead and uh run it down the line and polish it up. Bring it back in. I spent more time on this one and it definitely shows. I'm not seeing any big any major scratches. It's looking really nice and that is so interesting. That's like green vapor clouds. Really? Some might find that not appealing, but it is still very pretty. Okay. Yeah, there are a few little scratches right on that dome area, but it's not bad. I will take it as it is. Let's play around with a softer stone. So, we got here a horn coral. It's a black one that was from Utah when I went out to an place where there was nice coral fossils and limestone. And we've got two sides to play with. So, maybe I'm going to I'm going to start H. I don't know. Maybe I'll just polish both sides. Well, I decided to just polish the one side and then it just lays like that. But yeah, this does not take nearly as long to polish up just cuz Oh, it's calite and limestone. And there's I I noticed there's lots of little holes in it where it had empty space that didn't quite fill in. So, other than that, it looks quite nice though, doesn't it? Piece of black horn coral. Next up, I'd love to polish this cuz I'm so excited for how it looks. But I'm going to have to curve it to get it to polish nice. That might be a bit of work. Oh boy. Here we go. Here it is polished up. That's pretty nice. I looked at it at first and thought, "Wow, there's a whole bunch of scratches going like this." But then I was like, "Oh, wait. Nope. That's crystal growth." Very cool. I love how this one radiates. And the fracturing up here shows that that piece part of it right through there is actually calsite. Cool. mixture of the calcydney agot with calsite, which makes sense because you look at that that crystal right there and you're like, "Oh, yep. That's that's a calsite crystal." Next, I think I'm going to play around with this one. So, a little bit of that kind of jasper green and red seam that we found. This one has a little bit more red on it, though. So, got to grind into it somehow. started running down the top of it and inherent fracture. All right. Well, let's just play with this piece then. Okay. Multiple pieces have been coming off of it. So, it looks like this material is a little too fractured to really work on. So, I'm going to go ahead and put that off to the side. Let's try something else. Let's try this. So, this is a piece I found in the Chalice Volcanics that I think might be some wood or at least just like it might have been kind of a a cast with a little bit of wood. Kind of an interesting mixture. Anyway, let's grind it down and see if we can make something nice out of it. See if we can dome this. This piece broke off. Of course, I could see it before that inherent fracture and I decided to just give it a shot anyway to see what happened. So far, it's holding on. I do like how that looks. So, I'm going to go ahead and just polish that up. The fraction will just be there. If it falls off, it falls off. But I think that part looks pretty cool. So, let's polish that up anyway. There it is. It polished quite well. Of course, that fracture going through it means it's not really usable for much and it does detract, but otherwise, that is quite pretty, isn't it? Anyway, it's good practice and it does look pretty great. I think the last thing for this video because I'm kind of getting done for today and this is the only time I'm going to have this week to actually do this. So, this will be the end. This is one of those thin nodules that has kind of a neat edge to it. So, let's polish that up. We'll have to dome it just a little bit, but we'll polish it up and show you. Hopefully, it'll be a nice contrast from what you see now. And boom. polished up. What do you think of that? That's nice. You can see those like little black needles along the edge. Really cool. Probably some kind of metallic mineral. I'll have to figure that out sometime. Part of me wishes I would have cut it like this instead and expose the tops of those, but maybe it's better from the side. Yeah. So, we've still got these left over from the last time that we could run through. I also brought a bunch of new stuff that I'm excited for as well. So, I think to start, let's do something a little simple. Here's some salina wonderstone that I was just going to kind of dome the top of this. Yeah, let's start with that. Dome that. Then we got a bunch of other things to work with. Let's get at it. And away we go. Oh, there we go. Very nice doming effect. I mean, I'm making a nice dome on it. And I think that'll look pretty nice. Just kind of like a little shelf piece. Yeah, looks good to me. Well, I think I like the shape of it. Maybe I'll do a little bit more rounding and then we'll get it polished. And here we go. First polish of the day. So, I see tiny scratches all over it. But I think that is the level of the grit that we usually ended at. So, I think this is well polished up to that. Looks pretty nice. Well, we have this nice piece of orang-ish reddish agot that came from Leavan. I think what I should do is polish this side. So, we're going to want to curve it. Maybe grind a little off this to help like let light through in case that might make it look nice. H. Well, I rounded it off. So, the center is mostly just clear, not a lot of not much color. And then the edge is more more of an orange. Interesting stuff. And there's some inherent fractures on this side that kind of interfering a little bit here as well. Anyway, I'll just go ahead and polish it up as it is. It's not great, but it's kind of neat. Here we got it all polished up. Looks pretty good. Look, I got Looks like I pretty much got all the scratches on that worked out. Well, sweet. Those little white dots in it. Some kind of inclusion. I wonder if they're little bits of pockets of air or water. That would be really cool because that's what you calling in hydro. But anyway, it looks neat though. Let's play around with a little bit of this. This is some of that tube onx. This stuff tech usually isn't very stable and you have to stabilize it to do stuff. But I wonder if this will hold together as it is. And I'm just going to give it a try. So, I'm going to try and dome this and see what we got to work with. See if it falls apart or not. Just giving it a shot. I got plenty of this material. I just wanted to try a little bit of it. So, as I said, this stuff does need to be stabilized, but this has held together pretty good. You know, little bits keep coming off it here and there, but overall, that's not bad. So, I'm going to go ahead and go with how it is right there. Polish that up. And that should look pretty sweet just on its own. Here it is all polished up. That turned out really well. That held together much better than I thought. Man, I can still see like cracks going through it in multiple places, but it held. And that looks nice, doesn't it? But yeah, if I work on any more of this in the future, I'll definitely have to make sure to stabilize them first before doing anything else. But I'm glad this one held together. So, I have this interesting piece. It's definitely kind of an AGOT mixed with volcanic. I'm trying to remember if this one came from Utah down by the town enterprise or if this came from somewhere else. I don't remember. Anyway, you can definely see some AGOT here and running through right to there. H. So, what I think I'm going to do is I'm going to try and dome this top here and just see what comes out because right now doesn't look like a whole lot. Well, this is what we're looking at. So, heavily fractured. I can see several fractures. Very porous. So, even though it looks cool, I don't think it's going to polish up very well. So, because of that, I'm not going to spend any more time on this piece. We'll just put that off to the side. See what I might do with it in the future. Next up, this is an interesting piece. So, a little bit of the uh Kel Sydney from the Chalice Volcanics. You can see where a quartz crystal used to be. So, that looks really cool. And another one there. So, I kind of want to leave those and then just kind of maybe try and dome this a little bit. Um or I could try and dome from this side. No, I think this this will be the better side to dome. Well, let's try that and just see what it looks like. And if it looks good, we'll continue with it. Otherwise, we'll just leave it. And this is what we're looking at. So, the the hole re here that used to have a crystal pretty much is mostly gone. So, not a lot there, but this one still has the nice hexagonal shape. And overall, it's it's kind of neat. So, yeah, I'll go ahead and just polish it up as it is. Now, I don't want to go any further cuz I want to keep that. Yeah, let's go ahead and just polish it up in the red there. That's actually because of a fracture in the rock where iron oxidized. So, that's all that's going on right there. Here it is all polished up. That actually looks pretty cool, doesn't it? Neat little piece. Anyway, I've only got time to do one more. So, what should we do? I think we'll end today with just polishing up this little piece of red AGOT from Leavan as well. Another Leavan piece. Um, I'm going to go right into it and see what face looks looks the most pleasing. I decided to go with this side. It had the largest surface area and it still gave a good place to hold. So, I'm just going to do this side. So, I'll go ahead and work it all the way down and get it polished and bring you in. And there we go. So all polished up. That is beautiful stuff, isn't it? I wish I had more of the stuff that was red and black mixed from Leanne, but don't have a lot of it. Anyway, that took a really good polish. It looks beautiful. That's all I'm going to do today, but I'm not going to end the video here cuz I do want to do some more. So, I'll come back another day and finish this up. And this will probably end up being a Monday video. It is now day two. It's actually been about a week and a half since I was last here. And then I've got a few other pieces here. So, I took some of the nieces and nephews out rockhounding to the spot where we found with this wonders stone. Had them rockhound around and find fun stuff. Anyway, each of them I asked them to give me a few of the pieces that they would like me to polish up. So, we're going to try them out. This is kind of an interesting different because some of them I know are going to probably polish up really nice and look good. Other ones I'm not sure. So, that's kind of fun. Anyway, so these are theirs. So, we're going to have three from each of these plus this one and then the one I've got. There we go. We're going to polish that up. That's going to be our main focus. We'll probably be done after that. So far as time wise, I don't know if I'll have enough time to do more than this. If so, we'll jump into other stuff, but I'm going to focus on this. Let's start with just doing this little small one. I think we'll just polish that up and then I'm going to try and work on this cababashon. Wow, it polished up nice and quick. And look at that polish. It carries a good polish. I think this is some of the best wonders I've ever had to work with because a lot of the wonders that I get from like Vernon and Salina and Utah, it's very it's porous. It's cuz it's volcanic ash and it depending on how solicified it's become, uh it depends on how well it takes polish. But this stuff takes a fantastic polish. I would dare say this is almost Jasper really. In fact, yeah, I think it is pretty much Jasper. Here's a piece that um Allan did. I just saw this sitting here and thought I'd show you. Well, he's when I say did, he's still working on it. As you can see, it's still it still has some stages to go through to get the polish up, but look what it's looking like already. Wow. Huh. Great. Well, we got the small one done. All right. Now I'm going to play around with that bigger one. So this is just an end piece of a larger piece that I cut off. And I've decided not to make a cababashon because if you look closely at it, you'll notice there's fractures all through it. So I don't want to risk that problem. So instead of making it, I'm instead just going to kind of I think I'm going to just dome this piece and try and polish it. However, I'm going to save that till the end cuz I want to do the the kids material first. Make sure theirs is done. then I can come back to this. So, we'll hand this off. I'll start with this one. So, it's a piece of wondersstone that the kins found. And now that I've looked closely at the wonders, a lot of it is definitely solicified enough that you could call it jasper. So, it's kind of a jasper. A really nice jasper wonderstone. Anyway, I think what I'll do Yeah, I think that's what I'll do. I'll uh kind of flatten this out as a place it can sit. And then I'm going to try and kind of grind down a bunch of this and dome the top of it. And I think that'll make it look nice. Got the bottom relatively flat. So it should sit should sit set really nice. And I've pretty much ground down what I think we're going to work with. So you can see there's little parts that'll fracture out because it has all these inherent fractures since this stuff was on the surface. And so I just kind of ground to where I felt like it would give good exposure. we'll be able to polish a good amount of it while at the same time not keep going and then keep losing more potential pieces. So, I think we'll just go with that. Well, it's a larger piece, so it took a while and it had a lot of surface, but look at the end result. Wow. I got more of it polished than I thought I was going to get, but what it did polish is beautiful, isn't it? Well, that's nice. I think she'll really like that. Next up, this little piece of AGOT that my niece found. And we will just see what it's got under there. I see a little bit of red and white. So, I think I'll just kind of Let's see. I think this side's the easier side to hold. So, I think I'm going to kind of grind this and just see what comes out. As you can see, it's mostly that kind of that white gray agot, but it's got a little bit of red. And the orange is kind of more iron oxidation on the edges, but overall, that's not too bad. Oh, here's this one. So, when I ground it down, originally it made a triangle, and I was like, "Oh, if I just grind it a little bit more here, it'll turn into a heart." And she loves hearts. So, the polish isn't as good on this one cuz there's like little holes and stuff. And then right here was a little tricky, but you know what? She'll love it. Anyway, didn't turn out too bad, huh? This one was one of the different pieces that I saw the kids pick up. It was an orange kind of an agot. I thought let's go ahead and grind one side, polish one side of that and just see how it looks. So, I think I'm going to do this side just because I think it'll be easier to hold this way. Well, I think that's going to look pretty nice, don't you? Sweet. All right, we'll just go ahead and polish that up. Probably grind it a little here, too, so it'll set down a little easier. Okay, let's do it. Look how that one turned out. Really nice. And I'm I'm kind of proud of this one for for my niece's sake because this is one that she completely found and picked up on her own as opposed to me kind of helping her figure out which ones to pick up. She just she chose this one on her own and that was a really good pick. What do you think? Next up, this and if you look at it closely, this is actually more opalized, which is the only piece that I think I saw anybody pick up that was more of an opal rather than, you know, a jasper or something other quartz-ike. So, she wanted me to go ahead and polish the top of this. I think it'll look really nice. I think that's as far as I'm going to go. She did ask me to keep some of it natural, like kind of the side of it. She mostly wanted the lykan off, but she still wanted it to look nice. So, I think that's where I'll take it. You can see there's still a few pockets, some little bit of lyken through there, but that's enough that you can really see it. And we can polish a good amount of it. And I think it'll look at look pretty nice at the end. And there we go. Polished it up. Now, I knew that this was kind of a big area and it would be very hard to polish the center of it, but it turned out pretty good. Mostly it just missed the little holes, which is exactly what I thought it was going to miss. Anyway, that polish is actually really nice. What a nice piece. And like I said, the only piece that was uh more of an opal. She wanted me to polish up this. This looks like more of kind of just like a partially solicified volcanic. So, I don't know if it's going to polish up very well, but they asked me to do it and I will do it. Well, that's not too bad. I actually think it'll polish up decently. Oh. All right. Well, let's do that. Let's polish it up. Well, I was worried because it's volcanic ash that it wouldn't get a very good polish, but it actually did decently well. And because it was mostly ash and only partially solicified, it polished quick. This didn't take long at all. Nice. All right. This stuff is not disappointing. Last of the kids was this uh little piece of the wondersstone. And it's super thin. So, I don't know. And that's how that one turned out. So, because it's so thin, I just kind of let it polish whatever it was willing to polish. And it polished most of it. As you can see, there's a section here and a few little spots where there were little divots and up here that didn't quite polish, but other than that, it looks nice, which is just fine cuz she just wanted it to look nice. Well, I don't know if I'll get this done in this video today. So, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to take and make out a piece that I'm just going to dome the whole thing. That's going to take quite a bit of work, though. So, I'm just going to get started on it. If I have time to do it today, great. If I don't get it finished today, I'll get it finished in the next video. Look at that. So, I finally got it to the shape that I wanted. So, we still got to polish it, but look at that material. So yeah, technically it would be a Jasper because it is solicified enough enough, but you could call it Wondersstone. It is spectacular though. Well, I spent some time on this and it shows. The only thing I see is a little spot right there where I didn't quite get some scratches. That is pretty darn good considering how large it is. I am okay with that. The result is still really good. This is this is some special stuff. This is really really pretty stone. Well, that was nice, wasn't it, man? That that stone is spectacular. So, we just discovered it Saturday. Allan and I Gary is with us, but he wasn't feeling very well. But Allan and I and Gary were out there and we found this neat spot. Small zone, but beautiful material. And that was surface. So, it's been through freeze thaw and that's what it's like. So, it's technically Jasper, but you could call it a wondersstone. I'm thinking why don't we call it cuz my wife also looked at it and she's like that's just crazy. And I was like, what if we call it psychedelic wonders or psychedelic jasper, whatever way you want to go with it, cuz it does it looks crazy. So, I don't know. It just sounded nice. Anyway, that's all for this one. Until next time, remember there is treasure everywhere.