agates - turitella, tree, unknown, botswana chips

Here's a mix of agates. The recipes was:
60/90 - as needed, which means 2 weeks for the botswana chips to about 6 weeks or so for the others
120/220 - 1 week
500F - 2 weeks
polish (CPP) - 10 days
soap cleaning - 1/2 day

First up, the turitella. I really like what turned out, but most of what I bought rough was full of pits and soft spots, so at least half was rejected before even coarse grind, and most of what made it through coarse ended up in my "seconds" pile, to be run at some future date. This is the good stuff:


And a bit closer here:


This is some tree agate. Again, a fair bit of reject material. Maybe I'm too picky.


This is some unknown agate I bought a long time ago, and decided to have another go at it.


I tried to backlight the mystery agate here to show the inclusions. This makes me think it might be something like moss agate.


And these last 4 pics are of some Botswana agate "chips". Really tiny stuff, note the quarter for scale in the first pic. I move in closer in the next pics. Don't know what I'll do with such tiny stuff, but I like how it turned out.








Thanks for looking!