Make the Best Out of the Worst Lightning Ridge Rough Opal Cut Tips and Tricks.
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- In this video, I embark on a quest to uncover the maximum value hidden within two potential black opals from Lightning Ridge. With their thin color bars, these opals hold great potential, but the outcome remains uncertain. Join me on this journey as I share the tricks and tips I employ to minimize risks and enhance the cutting process. Will this gamble yield a lucrative return or result in financial loss? Stay tuned to find out!We welcome your comments. Please ask anything and I will do my best to answer all your questions, We also welcome any suggested content that you would like to see. @ausopal
Thank you for sharing what you have learned from your experiences with the thin color bars and showing the honest outcomes, even if they weren't remarkable. If nature didn't put a top gem in the stone a humble human certainly can't. We can only hope to expose the best each stone can be and it can be a 50/50 at the best of times. This subject of thin color bars is extremely difficult to be consistently successful even for cutters with a lifetime of experience. Well done!
such a beautiful comment. thank you so much for helping me enjoy this venture
I love them both!! youre very gentle at bringing the colour to the surface, that takes patience and talent! Im just a rockhound not a gemologist but I love the little river of potch on the second. I know opals are supposed to be clean and uniform but the little inclusions remind me that the earth is wild and Im still amazed at how they form. Theyre beautiful specimins! 🥰
I love your attitude towards nature. The opals can be beautiful in its imperfection for sure. Its serves as a reminder that nature is wild and unpredictable. Just a rockhound, its not just its awesome. Love the exploration of rockhounding and just enjoying the natural finds in raw forms. Keep it up. Thank you for the uplifting comments and compliments.
A great lesson in cutting, and showcase what the challenge of cutting opal is all about. Some rewarding stones.
thank you @Edelstones I am glad you liked it, I wish the stones worked out little better . its good to know people like you getting something out of watching really appreciate the comments
Thanks. I think I would try to get 2 smaller stones without the black for the lighter one. The darker one will still be pretty.
thank you Jan. It's good to know. If my experience can save someone from making a mistake I am happy. All the best to you. hope you are doing ok
I always try to pay attention to how the color evolves when you take more and more off the surface.
There have been multiple times when I realize I probably should have stopped sooner because I liked the color pattern, earlier in the process.
such a good point. awareness of the colour when cutting. Yes many times i have just put a thin bar one a wheel one too many times or tried to hurry and used too abrasive wheel thank you
Those are nice ones😊
Great tip of warming up your fingers first!!
thank you Ty I find it that it helps me get into the grove easier :)
Great video again Tom. 👏
you are such an awesome support thank you so much
Thin color bars.
But that second stone was pretty good. I think I’d have made that into a nice droplet 💧 shape to get away from the potch in it.
I still haven't finished those, and this was awhile ago since like a lifetime ago, droplet is what it will become thank you Michael :)
I actually love the bi-color potch. They're so mucch more unique, i think.
I agree with you and it's good to see someone likes the uniqueness of the stones . Thank You @mrsRMT
Thanks. I listen carefully to what the cutters like you are saying on YT so i don't have to find out everything myself when i start. Too bad about the color of the potch, very nice parcel though imo.
This dark one even though there is a lot of potch, it looks like red script. They’re not perfect but still really pretty!
not quite the script and yes it's opal i love it it is very pretty thank you so much for watching and the comment :)
great vid , its not hard to loose a bit of colour just by one more press on the wheels
are you feeling better? thats the most important? I am getting more patient and careful every day with the thin bars. I will do some more until i get a cracker of a stone . I like the challenge. All the best! thank you
yes out of hosital yesterday , getting better slowly, thanks, those thin colour bars can be very trying you think just one more hit on the wheel and it be better but the potch starts to grow, theres no going back, i got 2 black opals ive had for a few years , taken it down now i just left it for 3 years , dont know what to do dop them go a bit turther or not ha ha or try sell as they are
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Please show the polishing and finished product to us :) I like that part most.
thank you for asking and I will keep that in mind. I post few shorts with the polishing and sometimes i will do ones from start to finish. As time permits. Love to hear what you would like to see :)
todos los fósiles que encontré en una piedra sedimentaria de arcilla de sílice se hicieron distintos tipos de ópalos, me gustaria si pude opinar sobre ellos
Claro, solo un descargo de responsabilidad: no tengo mucha experiencia con ópalos no australianos.
@@AusOpal gracias de igual modo por tomarse la molestia de responder, la pregunta es solo para aprender, estoy leyendo y tratando de entender como estos animales se conservaron intactos y se hicieron ópalos
@@AusOpal este entre las patas traseras y delanteras eso que se ve naranja , amarillo, tiene detellos azules narnjas, czcams.com/users/shortsxScVVq-1YoU
@@AusOpal czcams.com/video/wm17BjLQ_gM/video.html este tiene esas lineas de color turquesa y otras zonas con rojo
algunos de los que se encuentran en el centro de Australia eran parte del mar interior que hace millones de años se secó y dejó a las criaturas muertas en años para regresar al agua rica en sílice que se bebió y les dio la textura química, organizando las esferas de sílice en diferentes patrones y cuando se expone a la luz refleja el color. Dependiendo de la disposición de las esferas, brilla con diferentes colores. el rojo es el más trasero
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whenever I see a bright color bar from the side I get excited but, having worked a few like that that end up being a disappointment, I also have to realize that it could just be a dud. The really thin color bars are problematic for me, especially if they are contorted within the stone.
I would have sliced the corner off that second stone and made a drop shaped opal.
thank you for sharing your experience here. I did think of slicing it but i was filming and there was not enough to make two stones so i though i keep going. I will finish that one off as drop shape most likely. I had 50/50 with thin bars some work out fantastic when they do and others well like on the vid :)
@@AusOpal indeed, thin bars are still difficult for me, I have only been doing it for two years. Also, I work with a dremel so I am not familiar with differences in equipment but I image a wheel removes at a far faster rate when applying more pressure.
yes the wheel is bit more dangerous it will get the colour off faster . i do use dremel as well and sometimes it is better to dremel a small part just to understand the bar thank you for sharing @@ThatOpalGuy
I really enjoy your videos and feel a bit of excitement as you work the stones. On another note, did anyone ever tell you that you sound like Christoph Waltz? I'm told that I sound like Shrek. 😊
I love the sound comparison :). I have not been told that but i take it thanks you. So glad you enjoy the cutting vids. Thank yous o much for comments and good spirit . now I am going to listen to CW.
@AusOpal , whenever I hear you I picture him talking to me and cutting the opal, you were wild in Django 😆
good flick that @@Kerrsartisticgifts
@@AusOpal don't you hear your own voice in it? Christoph is great in a lot of good movies
haven't listen to myself too much @@Kerrsartisticgifts
podría darme su opinion sobre mi opalo? es un fósil
Seguro si puedo ayudar soy voluntad
FIRST ALWAYS THAT WOULD BE ALWAYS FIRST FIND THE ABSOLUTE EXTREMITY OF THE opal ABOVE even breathing
tx @bubbleox :) yes a very good point