This was a great video Travis! Thanks for taking the time to go through the steps! What a beautiful agate!!

@406findings

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Great video. Keep finding those beautiful Montana Stones and share their beauty with the rest of us Rockhounders!

@406findings

3 жыл бұрын

Can do 👍and thanks for watching

Loved to see your process of polishing. Amazing how good it turned out. You can really see the depth in it now better. Cute dog too!

@406findings

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks I appreciate it and I enjoyed working on it since there is a lot going on in it but yes he is a cute dog👍

👏👏 That turned out crazy cool. I love all the varieties of colors. I need to add the yellow and black polish to my flat lap. Thanks for sharing

@406findings

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, it does have some nice color to it for sure and the extra polishing stages seem to help out a lot so I do recommend you get them.

Dude! What a frikin beautiful beautiful stone! 😳 but man, a really rad video as well, this was sweet brother. I haven’t gotten a chance to watch many other videos so I apologise brother but I like what you do man. Nice and chilled rock watching. And damn!100,000 polishing goodness right there!!!!! Look at the blue! Ughhh! So pretty!

@Rookie_Rockounding

3 жыл бұрын

I like what you’re talking about with seeing the different layer things happening. 👌✨✨✨✨✨✨

@406findings

3 жыл бұрын

Your all good bro👍 thanks for the compliment and that agate is really sweet it has nice layers of different things going on that's why I kept the slices kinda thick.

I just love that Montana blue in it. It's absolutely stunningly beautiful. ✌&❤

@406findings

3 жыл бұрын

I agree the colors are really beautiful in this piece and thanks for watching 👍

Real nice!

@406findings

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍

Man, that came out really nice! Great job and beautiful agate! I see an image in your agate. Look at 7:31 there's a girl in a dress with long hair and bangs looking to the right. Do you see it or am I just crazy? Its like a painting with the moss making the image of a person. that just makes it even more awesome!

@406findings

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks I appreciate it, and I do see the image after you mentioned it 👍 the black in the agate looks like a lady with long hair and bangs that's cool thanks for showing me 🍻

That came out so amazing! What a beautiful agate

@406findings

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I agree it's really nice with some great color.

Beautiful.

@406findings

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍

Thanks for sharing the post 406, much appreciated! Beautiful little chunk of mother earth, looks nice polished up~ I can truly tell you from the years i"ve been doing it, if you focus most of your time on first and second stages, the rest are all really easy. Also, I use jewelers glasses at 10x when polishing, If I can't see the scratches at 10x then with my own eyes the material looks glassy perfect! Thanks again and hope you have a nice rest of the week~

@406findings

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for advice and I'll have to look into the jewelers glasses I bet that will help a lot for finding the scratches.

@BackcountrywithShaughn

3 жыл бұрын

@@406findings One other thing that helps me, since the scratches disappear when water is added, I use a black sharpie to color in the scratch and when the ink inside the scratch is gone, so is the scratch! Otherwise you have to polish and dry, polish and dry polish and dry to see the quality of the finish~ Have a great day sir!

@406findings

3 жыл бұрын

@@BackcountrywithShaughn great idea thanks👍

I have been debating on investing in one of these flat laps. I think you sold me on it. That slab turned out very beautiful!

@406findings

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍 I would get one they are fun for sure and you can make nice pieces with them I have made many little necklace pendants thanks to the flat lap.

Dang, that thing sure is pretty inside. Thanks for the mention. Do you thinking the high polish pads are worth it?

@406findings

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks I appreciate it, and anytime your knowledge about the flat lap helped a lot, and with the different grades of polish it seems to show the different layers in the rock material for the ones I have done ,when you reflect the light on it, I can send some pics of what I mean on your instagram and see if you get the same or different results.

@CurrentlyRockhounding

3 жыл бұрын

@@406findings I would love to see some photos.

do you change pads with every polishing paste you do?

@406findings

7 ай бұрын

Yes you do need to have separate pads with its own polishing paste on it so you don't cross contaminate the pads.

I missed the part were u sayd what type of rock it was ? I have a rock with the same colors but it's smaller.

@406findings

3 жыл бұрын

Most people call it a Montana moss agate.

@stoneagelapidary4905

3 жыл бұрын

@@406findings I found a small one in california i thought the dots were paint 😅

@stoneagelapidary4905

3 жыл бұрын

@@406findings thanks for sharing👍

@406findings

3 жыл бұрын

@@stoneagelapidary4905 nice and I agree they can look like paintings for sure the way the patterns flow in the rocks and thanks for watching 👍