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Blue Line Gems
Добавлен 20 июл 2023
Short Opal Video
1.85 Carat Opal from Coober Peedy Australia
Multicolor Floral Pattern - Freeform
This opal will be listed on our website @ www.bluelinegems.com
Multicolor Floral Pattern - Freeform
This opal will be listed on our website @ www.bluelinegems.com
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Видео
Short Black Opal Video
Просмотров 207 часов назад
Rare 16.45 Carat Black Opal from Lightning Ridge Australia This red/blue black opal contains pinfire, flagstone and a broad-flash pattern. This opal will be listed on our website @ www.bluelinegems.com
Short Opal Video
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3.1 Carat Opal from Coober Peedy Australia Multicolor Floral Pattern This opal will be listed on our website @ www.bluelinegems.com
Rare!!! Red/Blue on Black Opal Chunks!!
Просмотров 1,4 тыс.14 дней назад
For this video, what I thought was going to be a pair of mediocre opals turned into an experience of a lifetime for an opal cutter. I cut two, over 25-gram, Lightning Ridge black opals with rare red and blue colors. What makes blue/red opal so rare is that these colors are on opposite ends of the color spectrum and hardly ever appear by themselves together in opal or anywhere else in nature.
Cutting one of the hardest opals I've ever cut. Will it be a score or a dud?
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Watch how I managed to cut this 17 gram/84 carat Coober Peedy dark-based opal from the @Outbackopalhunters It had multiple beautiful rich small bars that varied in size within the opal. It was pretty clean, but sand poised a problem at times as well. It was a learning experience, but it fun along the way.
This Isn't Diet Cola. This is The New and Improved, Refreshingly Cool, but Never Drinkable SODALITE!
Просмотров 1384 месяца назад
Watch me, my struggles, and my shenanigans as I cut rough sodalite into cabochon pendants.
What's hiding in there? Cutting Opal
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Watch me as I cut and polish this Australian opal and make it into a beautiful gem.
I think the grey fog is unfortunate, but it makes the gems look like astronomical photographs from the Hubble Telescope. They are beautiful. Thanks.
Sehr interessant. Danke fürs zeigen
Very nice 😉
The black opals turned out very nice, your skills are great. The final polish you put on those stones was perfecto. Leading us to my question; Where did you find your final polish wheel ? I have been looking for that same exact one, with the nice big felt wheel and the reservoir in the bottom for the cerium oxide and water. Please tell me it’s not home made and available for purchase somewhere lol. Again, great job sir
It’s not one unit, but multiple items I pieced together to create a whole. When I was starting out, I faced the same dilemma of finding a polishing unit without breaking the bank; and even then, it’s extremely difficult to find one. My Kingsly North, like other cabbing units, comes with side polishing wheels but I wanted a stand-alone unit for my cerium oxide. I could’ve purchased the “GSP8 Sander Polisher” from Gemcuts in Australia for $995 dollars AUS ($700 US) + shipping. But even then, I was unsure as if they even shipped to the US and/or Europe or not. I ended up purchasing a Rikon 8 inch low speed buffer from Amazon (The Powertec BF800 is similar), a Marathon 8 inch felt polishing wheel, and a Polish Cover Assembly (SKU: WBS0011) for the Wet Belt Sander from Highland Park Lapidary for under $400 dollars. My next video may be on this subject with hyperlinks in the description since I can't include links on this reply.
Great results. A shame that it was not brighter, but this is the way. I enjoyed the choice of music you used for the soundtrack. Also, I shared this on my page, hopefully it gets you a couple more subs.
At first I thought that you weren't going to get a stone out of the rough. I couldn't see any colour bars on my screen, just grey potch, so I thought. It was a nice surprise to see you getting those gems out of it in the end. I hope that you are ahead of the game after that.
With the bars being so thin, believe me, I was worrying the same if I'd get anything out of it as well. I guess it proves that you don't need a huge bar to get a good gem(s) from opal.
What a great job on a what was a tough stone. Nicely done.
Thanks!
What a great piece of rough. A definite puzzler, but being so large and two pieces it gave you lots of room to experiment. I would have taken hours and hours of staring at it. Very nice end stones. PS: I do like the musical selections you chose as well.
Thanks! I studied this piece for weeks before I finally gathered up the courage to actually cut it. I'd look at it, and then throw it back into the pile and move on to something else.
It's very hard to see the colors in video.
Agreed. Unfortunately, at times, it can be quite difficult to capture the in-person beauty and color of light-based opal without using some filters and/or color enhancements.
FOR THE ALGORITHM! also, subbed, because we small fry have to stick together!
Met you at the show in Athens today. Friendly guy with beautiful stones
Thanks! It was a pleasure speaking with you.