Last night's cuts (and a green mossy cube from a few days ago)
The new saw blade did great (once I figured out that one should always check the bushing rather than trust the company to get it right.) There was an old bushing hanging out on the arbor for reasons unknown and that one actually fit. The one that came with the saw was too big for the arbor and a loose blade is no fun.
Mossy cube:
Same location as the cube, but a different rock- too fractured and soft for cabbing, but going to go back (once I find it. I kick myself every time I think 'no, I don't need to GPS this place. I'll find it again easy) for more material.
Banded agate from a vein that was mostly calcite; too fractured for further cutting, but again will go back and look for more.
This is from a large surprisingly solid nodule. Hard material at the top but gets progressively softer into the brown. The piece is big and still in the saw and I'm curious to see what it looks like the rest of the way through. Far as I can tell everything is healed on the breccated part. For once a rock that isn't frost-fractured into frustration.
