Here is a video about how to crack open your own geode.
https://youtu.be/UTaE1pGtZVs
too much work, just throw them at oncoming traffic.
>>910824
With a masonry blade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtT3x7goeaU
No really,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0leQk0-4ZY
>>910824
That is one big-ass geode.
>>910824
Or you could just, you know, smack that bitch with a sledge hammer.
>>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.
Here's another XL geode getting cracked with the same soil pipe cutter. This time we had a crowd assembled.
https://youtu.be/MYtDwcN0HMo
>>910824
Isn't that how all the shops do it?
I thought everyone knew that already.
>>911053
I didn't.
>>911260
>Professional lapidaries
Heh. That's even a thing?
All the gift shops just snap them open. They're just pretty sand anyway.
>>911282
Yes, it is a thing.
>>911282
>Heh. That's even a thing?
Gemstones don't come out of the rock already carved in pretty shapes.
>>911343
>https://youtu.be/UTaE1pGtZVs
Crystals do!
>>912754
>what is cutting and polishing geode faces mean