Brilliant, But Not Perfect - Lambina Gem Opal Rough -- 19 carats
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- I evaluate and cut a brilliantly colored, but flawed opal from Lambina, South Australia. Lots of "footage" (too much?) for cutters. The final polished stone is 16 x 12 x 6 mm and weighs 8 carats.
The computer has chosen a winner:
CLAYSOUTDOORADVENTURES Carter
I THANK ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. I AM SORRY THAT I COULD NOT HAVE CHOSEN ALL OF YOU. I'M VERY MUCH IMPRESSED BY ALL OF THE INTEREST IN THIS OPAL I HAVE MANY OTHER OPALS THAT I WILL GIVE AWAY IN FUTURE VIDEOS. I CANNOT GUARANTEE THAT THEY WILL BE FLAWED...
Winner can contact me at pulitzeropal@gmail.com.
My name is Billie and I’m in Seward Alaska I’ve just recently discovered my love for rocks in general but when I discovered my passion for opal I’ve not been able to really look at anything else! I’ve got a tiny little work bench and very few conventional tools ( no wheels) but I love working with these and want to learn as much as possible and be able to create beautiful gem stones and pieces of ‘work’ for the community and loved ones. My fiancée is an artist of extreme talent and works with alknost every medium there is but specializes in Wood, antler bone and leather as well as metal smithing m, most recently he’s been making knives and swords! One hunting knife is made from the jawbone of a black bear he’d killed himself many years ago. Our home is like one giant craft fair but I’ve settled around opal with tremendous interest and enthusiasm! I love your videos, I have my iPhone running your videos all the time while I work! Thank you for the knowledge and I hope stand a chance to win this opal!
It's an amazing stone. I am glad it stayed in one piece. I think the flaws don't detract from it. Wish I would have seen your channel sooner.
I watch these videos to learn from the masters. I think your videos are superb because of the professional way you photograph the process. Good set-up, no shaking, and superb focusing. GOOD JOB !
Opticon that mofo. So beautiful! Ahhh, opals! They remind me of the colors and effects/sets of old Star Trek, in the best possible way, to name but one thing. Endlessly enthralling 😫
I would love it.
Oh my, owning that would be a pleasure!
glad you mentioned the Aussies and Etheopian opals lol the reason they dont like it is because it better looking across the board then aussie opal and available in tons lol the price of welo has gone up quite a bit in the past few years but still lower then aussie opals ,in my opinion only LR black opal is beter then welo opal,the paterns and colors and brightness of wello crystals is stunning in the high grade material
Beautiful...why not just try a gold wire wrap?
I love your work...who was the lucky person?
Even FLAWED Opals need loving and that one is a BEAUTY! I would cherish her and wear her as a pendant, always. 💙
I’m glad you liked it. I set all opal cabochons that I personally like in gold. New video next Wednesday at 4am EST USA
I love the relaxed pace of these videos, I can feel my blood pressure dropping by the minute.
Right! And his goofy sense of humour!
I mean it the nicest possible way xx
i guess it is kinda randomly asking but does anyone know of a good website to stream new series online ?
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Its a coffee bean opal. Pity i didn't have a computer till 2years ago. I'm a late techno kind if old fella. Still a beautiful stone that some very lucky person recieved. Very kind jf you indeed Colonel 💎🏴👍
Looks like African Opal, cuts like Ethiopia opal, feels like Ethiopian Opal.. Behanves like Ethipian Opal....(As not all Ethiopia Opal is Hydrophane)... that is probably.... Eth..... Where is the Opticon? (I love all your videos, thanks so much).
I know it's not opal and I don't mean to cause any offence, would you /have you ever done Star Sapphires. Its cabbed but I don't know if those are the machines used.
That opal has an absolutely beautiful orange fire like colour in it.what a beautiful stone,even with its little faults. I think its beautiful and would love to give it to my wife or granddaughter. Its lovely in its own way,somewhat like your good self Colonel 👍🏴💎
So i know everyone is big on the reds and yellows and pinks...but did anyone else notice the beautiful teal colors? :3 so cool
Hey, Dr. Don Pulitzer, Who was gifted the colorful Lambina Opal so we may congratulate and wish well? I will be happy with all the comments here. It was a plethoria of Opal Lovers!
Within a flaw, comes true beauty. This is one of those moments!
I would agree with you. More comments on color, rather than defects, which I think adds to it being from the earth. I'll take it in a heartbeat. Thanks, in advance.
wow, you did a great job; it's beautiful (warts and all!)
It’s just like a person
Flawed but still pretty
Great video Don 🏆
What a fantastic piece of material. I would love to be able to display this! never won a givaway before so heres hoping :)
I would love to have it, thanks for posting all your videos, I'm learning a lot about opal cutting, I'm learning to do it.
I love the colors, whoever was the lucky person to adopt this gem, Congratulations!!
Indeed, Amber, the vibrant colors in opals are a sight to behold! Congratulations to the lucky individual who now owns this beautiful gem. Opals always bring joy! 🌈🎉😊
Another fantastic video, these videos are amazing. I left you a comment on one of your videos and I told you that I have dyslexia which is a learning disability and the way you talk about things I can understand exactly what you’re saying it’s really cool, but anyways be safe. And as always take care and God bless.
Thank you so much for your kind words, @charlesteune6416! I'm absolutely thrilled to hear that you find the videos informative and easy to understand. It means a lot that I can make a positive difference for you. Remember to like and subscribe to keep up with all the exciting content coming your way. Take care and God bless you too! 💖
It's beautiful!
OMG! An opal giveaway. I can’t believe it. I’m crazy about opals. I would love to have that opal and stare at all the pretty colors. Please pick me , so that the opal can travel the world to stay with me. I’m dying for a real solid opal
What I was thinking was a wire wrap design with silver. You could actually cover some of the flaws that way. Congratulations to the winner. :)
Coffee bean opal ... as a silver Jeweller this would be a beautiful ring or pendant
just as l typed it l seen your comment
A lovely little Easter egg! The color flash is so vibrant! 💜
I love it just the way it is. The colours outshines all the flaws. I just started wire wrapping and would love to wire wrap this beauty! Thank you for sharing it with us! :)
Linda , please send me an opal.
Well done, my friend!!! All your vids are very informative, keep it up.
I would like to put my name in the hat for it
Fabulous color. Thanks so much for sharing & you stopped at just the right spot. Beautiful
B-E-A-YEEWTIFUL!
Good afternoon Colonel.
On this particular stone I am glad you decided to take it to full polish, it actually helped it look much much better. Even with the flaws, the color play and Polish together really helped it.
I’m positive whoever ended up with that gem was quite happy with it. Personally, I’d have set it in a gold setting, I think the overall color of the stone would have been enhanced by the gold color of the setting. Of course, that’s just my opinion, which doesn’t count for much haha.
I really appreciate your content and the patience you quite obviously have with noobs like me. Thank you much.
Congrats CLAYSOUTDOORADVENTURES Carter for winning this!!
First, I gotta tell you, I just love the s#!t outta you. 🤗❤ You kill me... 😄 "Secondly, Can Lambina Opal be hydrophane?" I have a stone that I am increasingly CONVINCED is a significant opal specimen. (Determined after extensive study at Google University. 😉) Disappointingly, noone I have taken it to, sent photographs to, or spoken with, have been able to definitively i.D it for me. So!😲 When you placed your little light behind your rough cabachon and it looked VERY SIMILAR to my stone, I had to ask. My stone illuminates with an almost identical honey yellow color near one end, but with a more greenish hue as I slide the light toward the bottom. The outter matrix looks very similar as well but my stone is more completely covered (and because i'm terriified I will do irreparable damage to it by messing with it. 😬) I cannot see inside very well. There is a tiny little "window" where I can glimpse a few flecks of interior color play... I do recall you mentioning in one of your previous (Hilarious!😛) videos that it is Ethiopian opals which normally exhibit this characteristic, (the key word being "normally,") leading me to believe there may be exceptions? After long periods of amusing myself sticking, and unsticking, the tip of my tongue to my stone while researching identification online, inevitably finding your videos, watching many of them, and consequently becoming hopelessly endeared to you.😊 One thing is FO SHO! MY stone is "hydrophane." My sincerest thanks for the education, giggles, and hopefully upcoming clarification?. Love and Respect, Kelli
I really wish to buy this opal. It’s beautiful as it is I’m a collector from Denmark and love to watch your videos and learn more about these amazing stones.
If I can figure out how to send pictures of a few pieces I will show you one that I found in Sweden ( of all places) and one Mintabe that is one of my favorites. Thank you again and best wishes from Liseleje, Danmark- Helle 🙏🏻😊🙏🏻
You shouldda made a commercial for this stone with Sally Struthers! "Just five likes and a share will give this BEAUTIFUL stone a new home! Will you help?"
Wow that is beautiful and would love to own it and who wouldn't want to own it??
The wife love them but can't afford them
Good luck to everyone wanting to win this!!!!!
Russell -- Did you know that you won the Lambina? I have replied to comments, but haven't heard from you. pulitzeropal@gmail.com
That opal is just special. Search the youtube videos about "Kintsugi: The Art of Embracing Damage".
I would take it as is. I would love it as a specimine or get it wire wrapped.
Please correct me if I'm under a misunderstanding.
But does not the rest of the jem world, excluding opals, use some sort of plasticizer or resin
To bind cracked gems
together? As well as color enhancement?
And could you put this disabled gentleman on any of your jem giveaway lists please.
I've always wanted a gentleman's pinky ring in opal. I had one previously. Made for my grandmother's 22 karat gold and white fire opal. Unfortunately, my ex-wife's eldest daughter stole it and then lost it swimming.
I was disabled shortly thereafter. And I am currently living on a hand-to-mouth budget. I would cherish and opal pinky ring as my most prized possession.
Having watched your video's for several years now I've become an opal cutting expert.
Well an expert as far as the comment section. :)
( amazing how many experts and professionals you find in comment sections)
I would have liked to have seen you attack that backside. I know the cracks and crevices went a little deep and you would have had a smaller stone, but that color flash on that side would have made up for the loss in karat weight. That or you would have just end up grinding it to powder.
Your video's have given me the confidence to give it a go. I pulled the trigger and bought some opal. I've been binge watching your video's for the last week in the hope's I'll pick up some tips and tricks.
Ill be back either thanking or cursing you. J/k.
What a gorgeous and interesting piece! This is what I'm always saying!!! Where else can I see so many different types of opal being cut?!? Lambina, what an interesting material!
I would enjoy owning your beautiful piece of gem opal. It is an extremely beautiful piece of nature's gem quality art. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and videos. Also, thank you for just an opportunity to own a piece of your treasure. My name is Mark Farlett
What a generous man you are..Thanks again for my viewing pleasure
It's incredibly beautiful just as it is. Those colours are just .... Wow.
Does this seem like an inexpensive stone still? $195 seems pricey for all those defects. I'd love to know what you think about the value considering all the variables. Learning a lot from you, thank you.
You can't win' em all. As a matter of fact, you make out alright. (based on your videos ) Another generous give away. Nice. Looking forward to the next parcel. It's hypnotic to discover whats in the stones along with you at the wheels. 👍
New subscriber! These are magical! I'd love to have one of your works. Flaws or not it's just beautiful and I'd proudly wear any real gem.
Have you ever considered a flashlight with a high CRI (color rendering index)? It imitates the sunlight and gives more detail in color. Nowadays these flashlights are pretty cheap.
This video was SUPER helpful to me! I am fairly new to cabbing opals and have a whole pile I’m starting to work on. This helps me know the thought process you go through when you end up with a stone with lots of problems. Thank you!
Don, it’s beautiful! Sad that it had the problems it did.
I have learned so much from watching your videos. You’ve given me confidence in determining how to assess where the cuts are.
Quick thought...I wear hearing aids, and when you have your grinder on, it’s harder to understand your conversation.
Oh, I know this is an old video however I would have liked to have this beautiful opal. I don't know about opal but it was so beautiful even with the cracks, so similar to special people. Thanks for the video. Take your like 👍
Have you had any luck with Opticon stone crack epoxy? I bought some but haven't tried it yet. Nice save on that flawed little guy. I had visions of it bouncing out of your hand and shattering! 😃
I sent you a joke. Did you get it? Well.how do you catch a polar bear?.you buy a can of pea's go out on the ice cut a hole put the pea's around the ice hole. When the bear comes to take a pea kick him in the ice hole. Ok done. I'm still watching your videos! I'm learning so much Mr Pulitzer!!😁
Honestly I don't know why cracks and flaws are such a big deal.. I understand people want a flawless ring but for a gorgeous stone to be devalued so much because of a crack or a imperfections blows my mind.. I have a huge opal collection and my personal that I don't sell alot of them are cracked but some of the most beautiful stones I have.
Its a pity indeed looks like pressure cracking from dynamite mining process or just natural pressure cracking, as we know it is a chert-like substance... I would have been pissed if id been mining for months and got that out of the face, it would turn me into to a gold miner LOL...
Of all the videos I've watched this raw stone is the hardest for me to contemplate how and where I'd even begin. Just another contradiction related to opal...the most beautiful raw stone can be the most challenging to cut, finish and polish. Glad its not me doing the work!
Bugger my m8 in Brazil ,well koala would wear this forever round neck ! Wow very nice and "Do Not own a piece of Oz opal"Hope my name comes up ,random lol
I don’t know how I haven’t seen this earlier, but it looks like I have a few hours to still get in on it. This is beautiful, and exactly what I’ve been wanting to get my fiancé. You always know how to bring out the best in Opal. We watch your videos all the time but she hasn’t seen this one yet, and I’m not going to show her just in case I’m chosen, I want it to be a surprise. Please include me in the giveaway :)
Well. The stone turned out to be very nice, in spite of the cracks...a long way from the bin, for sure!!!
I'm no expert but I am watching a lot of videos of yours and a couple of other guys and the only opal I have seen that looks like that is welo from Ethiopia.
If you would like to spare some time writing everyone's names on paper slips, you could instead use a website like commentpicker.com/youtube.html . You can make it fair by getting rid of multiple entries from a single person and if the commenter did not ask for the opal then you can always redraw.
As well thanks for the videos. I've been thinking about starting a hobby in jewelry and have always been fascinated by opal. I'd love to see what I can do with a lovely piece like this.
Stunning! I'm at a loss for words on most of your videos. Opals are just amazingly colored that make me want them all. lol Who was the lucky winner?
That's awesome 👌. I hope I get this stone. Whoever gets this is very lucky.
I am a collector of flawed opal. It gives in unique character. This would be a great addition and will make a lovely pendant if I am lucky enough to win.
I've been watching and waiting patiently for a giveaway and you may say why don't you just do Commerce well I'm a poor man but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate opal
Half of length wise along that crack and you have lovely earing pieces
I would love to have a piece from you, Sir!
I ralize that I am seeing that almost a year after the fact, and I am, at present @9:38 in the video, but I keep thinking "With the crack like that, would it be possible to cut, and polish the whole stone into a heart shape, and name it "Fragile Heart"?" no doubt, someday you will run into another brilliant, but fragile stone, and you might consider creating a fragile heart
Color is unbelievable. Saw the cracks and knew it was all the way through but such beautiful flash.
Its beautiful even with its flaws. It is a Rabbit which apparently wound up pictured on his side. Not sure how it happened or even how to take it down. He was just hanging around in my front yard one day.
I'm from India. I was an early subscriber of your channel. Because I love opals.
I would love to have that Opal! If not thats cool your videos inspire me and my girlfriend. Like you i was at the tucson Gem and rock show this year and we bought some rough opal I've been working on them they're looking great but I still don't know quite what to do with them yet and thanks to your videos it's helped. An hour after I made this comment I realize that this video is 2 months old and of course the opal is long gone but it matters not and I definitely think your videos are the bomb
I think, it was a nice patern. Kind a septarian patern. Seems like fracture, but i don't think it is. I would love to have it ☺
Very nice work. The "flaws" actually look pretty cool in this. I think it would make an awesome tie pin.
My daughter (8yrs old) would love to have this. She wants to be a geologist and tells me more things about stones than I’ve ever heard. Opals are her favorite although she’s never held one in person. Would love to make that into a necklace for her!
Lovely opal thanks for sharing this wonderful video.
as far as Gem opal goes ,lots of people call precious opal Gem opal ,but real Gem opal is any precious opal that has 5/5 brightness in color, only that is considered gem grade opal
It really came out better than I expected with all the cracks. It was still quite nice to look at with the cracks. I think you’re right, people will see the color more than the cracks.
now that i see what it looks like being cut I was right, should have sent it back and the color is not very bright, a 3 or 3.5 out of 5 at best, not even close to gem opal, by the way the welo's with that body color are always of low grade,plus its just not eye appealing ,it looks dirty
The front/top looks pretty god on camera after you finished it, the color is really pretty nice, it's too bad it has the fractures and blemishes.
Beautiful colours. Purple gold turquoise it's just iridescent
The defects actually give the final product very good character, very pretty, i would love to have such a gem
How is it that you know that that's going to be the backside of that stone when you said during one of your napping videos don't pick which is the tip of the arrow let the arrow tell you or something you said like that just curious
I love seeing the turquoise flash. I think it's my favorite.
Absolutely gorgeous. I would have made it into a pendant as is.
Do you visualize what it will be in the end and work towards that or do you make decisions as you go. It is a beautiful stone, cracked or not.
I know this has been over a year but the cracks would only add to the character of the opal the colors are amazing I myself can’t afford a real opal so wished I had one you didn’t want thank you for helping me learn more about opals because yes I have been taken god bless and have a great day
It's good to reinforce the thought that you can't win em all. Thanks for sharing
I love watching this stone! Would love it! Calming effect
now you have an unstable opal not fit for any jewelry ,just a specimen,should have left it in the rough
Back before the comedy? This guy is awesome even without it
I love to take it and have it mounted in a man's ring.
That turned out to be a most beautiful stone with its "flaws" it makes it unique in my eyes. Lovely.
Sir Dude Donald that is a beauty, to bad you gave it away it would have looked good on Sheila’s neck
I’m sure whoever gets that will just
Look at it for hours
💎 it’s a Gem 💎
I know I'm latee, but I think it would be great in a thin gold "cage' that would allow the stone to move inside it.