I'll admit, I usually have no idea what I'm doing. This is no exception. Here's a piece of obsidian I recently slabbed. Unfortunately, what I didn't realize is that if you cut it at a different angle against those lines, you can sometimes get other colors to show.

After watching a youtube video, I cut another piece and here it is with the sun hitting it. Pretty nice huh. But what am I going to do with all of the other pieces already cut...?

I set off trying to find the perfect angle to cut the next batch at. I marked up a bunch of the pieces and went at it.

But let me tell you, this stuff is sharp. Basically shards of glass, so I tried a technique that I thought would protect me AND make me look really cool. It worked!

And here we are, a bunch of cut pieces. Unfortunately, none of them showed any color like my other one, so I decided to throw them in the tumbler. At least they'll be shiny.

Clean out day!

And now I have a bunch of these... obsidian sticks? Dunno but they're cool!