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How to crack open your own geode.
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Here is a video about how to crack open your own geode.
https://youtu.be/UTaE1pGtZVs
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too much work, just throw them at oncoming traffic.
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>>910824
With a masonry blade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtT3x7goeaU

No really,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0leQk0-4ZY
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>>910824
That is one big-ass geode.
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>>910824
Or you could just, you know, smack that bitch with a sledge hammer.
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>>910946
I got that size, shape, and color sitting in my house for the past 25 years. Never could get it open. There was a smaller one just like it I hammered open with a sledge. Just rusty quartz. Not much crystal structures.
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Here's another XL geode getting cracked with the same soil pipe cutter. This time we had a crowd assembled.
https://youtu.be/MYtDwcN0HMo
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>>910824
Isn't that how all the shops do it?

I thought everyone knew that already.
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>>911053
I didn't.
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>>911053
No one but amateurs use that method or hammering. Professional lapidaries use saws like in the second link here >>910847
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>>911260
>Professional lapidaries
Heh. That's even a thing?

All the gift shops just snap them open. They're just pretty sand anyway.
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>>911282
Yes, it is a thing.
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>>911282
>Heh. That's even a thing?
Gemstones don't come out of the rock already carved in pretty shapes.
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>>911343
>https://youtu.be/UTaE1pGtZVs
Crystals do!
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>>912754
>what is cutting and polishing geode faces mean
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