Opal cutting, mixed fields.
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- G’day everyone, I hope you’re all well! In this video we’ll be cutting opal from various fields across Australia. There’s quite a few challenges to overcome, with this lot, to figure out the best cut for each stone. Let me know in the comments which Australian opal field do you like best. I hope you enjoy, thanks for your time. 🤪👍
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Quite the variety. Beautiful work as always Phil. Really enjoy watching you work the stones.
Thank you for sharing Phil ! Beautiful job !
A nice assortment of stones. Love watching your work Phil 👊👍🔥🌈
YES! 39:28 snow globe! what a beauty!
Very flashy show. Great work and thanks for teaching us so much. I would be happy owning any of them.
Thanks for Mooning us Phil great job as always 👏
Again WOW Love the first cut.
Hi Phil. I thought those all turned out great. Especially the Moon and cushion cuts. I think my favorite opal field is Lightning Ridge, but I am starting to appreciate the other fields more and more. Thanks alot in part to the exposure of them on your channel. Carved my first Lambina today, and had one turn out pretty good. Thanks for the channel.
Really liked the amber one at the end! Half moon came out great too. Actually, all beautiful stones.
Love the crescent great shape thank you for another great vid
Awesome work, great shaping and display of incredible colours. 🎉Really professional, great talent.😊
You rock 🪨 Phil beautiful job on all the stones there you are the master 🫡
You Nailed them cuts Phil well done on shaping and a bright polish
Sacando lo MEJOR de cada ópalo , chispas y espejos arcoiris en patrones HERMOSOS , EXCELENTES TRABAJOS, SIEMPRE LO HACES SALUDOS🫠
the moon one is very beautiful ^w^
Lovely job Phil, sand spots are a bugger. I actually like that honey opal colour, not sure why but it appeals to me. Good rant at the start , I thought thumbs up helped you, but I did accidentally start a second profile so you have 2 subs from me. Hahaha take that Facebook metrics…. I didn’t know about the Chanel either explains how I got 5 subs when I’ve never posted a thing, I wonder how that could happen……. Thanks for sharing and whoever bought that parcel, bloody good buying, beautiful stuff.
awesome results on all those stones. I particularly like the moon, well done!
Nice Phil I totally enjoyed my lambina parcel , it's the first time back cutting since underdale uni when I finish Oct 93. I taught my kids their first rubs n dops. They were thrilled (yippie I got them off a dam computer) my parcel no23 will end up with 7 stones. Now my kids are more excited about why crazy dad bought a block at Coober pedy, and why my mate gave up helicopter s n fireworks to go lightning ridge.
Thankyou
That’s awesome Peter, it’s always good to hear another generation becoming interested in opal, those computers are a curse. 🤪👍
Howdy Phil good evening from Grovetown Georgia USA my friend thanks for sharing your videos with us 😀
Phil you read my mind. I was just thinking. That looks like candy.
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Hiya Phil, awesome video and all the stones came out beautifully mate.
Cheers! Cya!
😺🐟 out!
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Wonderful work Phil 👏, and you worked your magic on those stones! You did bring out their beauty to the fullest, such nice opals 👋💎👍! I like those ( did you say jelly opals? ) and that honey colored big one was really nice!❤
Yes, jelly,… mmmm jelly and honey, I’m in the mood for toast. 🤪👍
I liked the one with silica spheres the best.
Yeah, I’m quite partial to the silica spheres, they just add that certain something. 🤪👍
The moon is beautiful.
Beautiful work Phil. Really nice 👍
nice cuts Phil. the moon is my favorite. I recall seeing a moon at an AC/DC concert in 1980, the back in black tour. maybe you should name your moon stone the Angus Young Opal :)
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Nice! :)
like the way you think and try to get all the shapes and cuts with minimal loss of colour some creat stones
morning phil when you poping up next, got a blob gamble stone for you to look at cheers
Nice material Phil are you selling any rough materials? 😊 thanks awesome pieces. I cut some opals on my homemade cabbing machine 😊
I sell rough now and then as I find it, none at the moment though.
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That aside, I'm a new cutter and while I haven't been able to afford to cut anything spectacular, I do have quite a few shorts and other videos on my channel of what I have cut and what I get up to regarding opal.
Subscribed. 🤪👍
@@theopalmills Cheers mate I appreciate that. Things are slow at the moment but a brand new cabbing machine is just over a month away and I'll get back into it!
for a gem light i use an old cheaapo portable charger that has a singhle LED in top without the big lense and works so well as a gem torch you may even have one lying around! (not the big lense or cob light style ones, just single LED) i cant justify the money for the black opal direct ones hahaha
I guess I have no chance of getting an andamooka matrix opal being cut and set by you, Phil. I can see that you are incredibly busy. But I followed your instructions and treated a bit of andamooka matrix opal that's about 30 odd carats and it's awesome looking, I am wishing I could get it turned into a ring and pendant or something for my old wife. BUT we are not in great shape and almost 70, so I can't wait 20 yrs till you get through that ton of matrix I just watched you treat.....any thoughts? 😊
G’day mate, I’m flat out for a couple of months, but get back to me on that. 🤪👍
Thanks for another awesome video.
Im a novice cutter and am looking at upgrading from just using a rotary tool. What was the reason you chose the Vertical lap over the normal cabbing wheels? Just trying to decide what i should get.
G’day mate, I learned to cut on a flat lap in the early 90’s, it’s all I’d ever known, then I discovered the other style of cabbing wheel but I just couldn’t adapt in a way that made it easier, so I stuck with the flat lap. It’s horses for courses, if you have a lapidary club nearby, it might be worth checking out their wheels to get an idea of suitability. 🤪👍
hey phil the stone at 51.36, what field is that from and is it for sale
G’day Joe, I’ll be up in a couple of days, I’ll bring it with me, Lambina. 🤪👍
its low 40 this coming week mid 40 thursday