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Sintered 600 max but could skip to 280 nova if really on it.

Can get Andamooka that looks 100% like this so fine guess.

Reasonable guess.

Sometimes I have bought low dome stones with this issue so I just scrub them up again. I see it all the time in doublets actually.

Sometimes in boulder opal you can get 3-4 different materials which is even more interesting.

Thanks Kev. Wanted to surprise people with some white LR. Now for some black Coober Pedy.

There are a few ways. Getting a thin resin to seal the stone seems to be the most popular.

You can teach an old dog new tricks! I did start thinking Coober Pedy once I started watching the video though. Beautiful opal!

Haha you got it from the thumbnail. Thats a good eye and some built up experience shining through.

Coober potch and get nice and dark grey, I have a couple of N6-N7 stones from there

I have a few bits of black Coober Pedy that I want to do a similar video with to surprise a few.

I have covered this topic in a more presentation style way here: ruclips.net/video/vAdzDCp1IO0/видео.html

You got it with Ridge.

I can try again but there are not many stores in Aus that sell them apart from my store and gemcuts. I'll try again but the 4-piece kits are getting rare these days.

I kinda thought about that to start the silversmithing but I thought it is better to just get there on my own. I'm not that far off for the burs. I really should have just increased prices on the store (which I will have to do soon anyway) but the cheapness of the tools is what I am aiming to do.

Many fields especially when there are plenty of exceptions out there as well.

Flat faces are tricky to get that polish so hopefully that helps show why. The minerals in the ground at the different fields certainly have a strong effect on the body tone for sure.

Not my grease hands. Too much KFC in my blood.

Yeah thats what I call them too but I'll have to double check it. I could try the Raman microscope at work (when I finally fix it). Otherwise if I can extract a bit the XRD would get the ID done.

Haha its all good. Your guesses were understandable. Very little indicating LR.

It is a reasonable guess.

Ah this one was a nightmare. Not sure what Jullian decided to do with that one. A mash together of fossil bits.

They are a huge adjustment from the nova points so I'll have to send them with a warning.

The more tribal style I am guessing? I like working a lot of the potentially full faced ones but I do have some other stuff in storage. I'll see what I can find.

@@RoysRocks Yeah, I've seen mostly tribal pattern. However, I've also cut several pieces of Koroit/Yowah boulder that were predominantly boulder matrix. Thx!

It’s a beautiful stone even if it is from lightening ridge. lol. Love the explanation about the flat dome.

Both are reasonable guesses. It was meant to be a tad tricky.

Thanks man. I'll keep grinding ad you keep scratching up that gold!

@@RoysRocks LOL 😂 I will keep scratching till the Sun Goes Down.🌞👍

I just gotta keep trying the doors.

Yay I'm learning well.

Haha you are learning fast! Power of the internet and handling material yourself. There is always something new but thats what keeps opal so interesting.

Its an okay one. I was hoping to get that last bit of potch out of the face but not quite.

Yep.

Diamond pacific wont sell directly to me and I was using Suva but apparently the 4 piece kits are not being produced as much as they used to.

I think they have their own thing going so not sure it would be a joining of forces.

Just dont like preordering. So much could go wrong.

I just dont like the preorder idea because I hate taking peoples money and having them sit there waiting. I also though business loan but the interest rates on that seems wild. Its okay with a few more sales and some hard personal saving I can do it this year still.

@RoysRocks you are a good dude man, you really do help people that are on a budget trying to get into this hobby. And it is greatly appreciated.

@@RoysRocks you're so nice and caring, would make people want to support you more ☺️

It is very Olympic mine like for sure.

Wow! Didn't see the right answer coming!

It is a bit of an exception since LR is so known for black opal but they do have the full spectrum like many other Aussie fields.

Probs the most common guess. 99% of the time you'd be right.

@RoysRocks yea I clicked right at the end when you said grey base,but I'd already put in coober lol. But I'm learning what the stuff from different fields look like. Thanks to you 😊

If it gets into the stone you need to remove the pitting that let it in there anyway. Just dont paint a porous stone like matrix opal. The oil diamond pastes are fine but sometimes the colour will get into pores as well.

I wish my mintabie worked this well.

Most likely guess I reckon.

@@RoysRocks Indeed.

Could easily have been

You got it!

Nature does a good job putting these things together. No need to change it too much.

Agates are a bit harder so the final polish should probably be AlOx but apart from that they would work fine. I've done fire agates on the channel with these.

@@RoysRocksI watched that, very informative. I'm just getting started but we mostly have agate here. thanks for all the great content, very helpful.

Haha its not too complicated. Essentially just give it a little rub to clean and freshen the exposed surface.

VAT adding a bit on? That or the local distributor.

@@RoysRocks Just the local cost for it. Vat is automatically applied in the UK for everything so you don't get the "oh the price has gone up 20%" when you go to checkout like in the US

The opal will always be crystal, if you want to make it no longer hydrophane (never soak in water) you would have to coat and seal it to block the pores.

@@RoysRocks thank you for reply, any advice for natural treatment to block the pores?

Doesn't have to be special just has to work and be worth the price tag. There are tons of shoes out there and none are special but thats not an issue.

They are cool. Rarely do I feel good about an inclusion but these ones were interesting.

If only I had more space for more toys.

@@RoysRocks now Roy, there is an entire university lab, just needing to be correctly utilised.

Tweezers are always super slippery though and I've had stones go flying behind my desk in the past... the rescue mission is tough.