That's some stunning color, it compels you to keep looking at it cos you get subtle variations of color when you view it from different angles, like that purple that showed up at the end, mesmerizing.
I looked back and there hasnt been a boulder video in a while I was actually surprised. Will have to make up for that. I do have some more coming in...
thanks for this mate..ive got a lot of colour like this but wasn't sure what i could do with it..good to see a few little imperfections doesn't really matter in the finished stone..
It's my colors! (Blue, blue and blue) Hey about these slices I've seen a short of a guy slicing with a diy fixed flex shaft and a diamond disc (two pipe holder screwed on a wood desk) some asian jade carvers also use the flex shaft screwed to a table trick but I've never seen someone use it as a trim saw. Just need a drip to it.
@@RoysRocks I've seen it in many videos and in person a couple of times it's only two stamped steel (hardware store stuff)1/2 pipe clamp on the flex shaft against a flat surface (vertical or horizontal) it's a semi-permanent setup. I'll buy 2 of them and post on the community (; could be useful to some... Edit: A great creative user of rotary tool is RUclipsr and lapidary Ares Shahumyan check him out ...
Will silicone carbide or aluminum oxide work for grinding these? Will nova tips work on sapphire too? Cause I'm a madman for Aussie gems. Got some Rubyvale high grade rough sapphires, working to get some boulder " gamble rough " And looking for a good price on a small parcel of lightning ridge knobbies . I'm a newbie so I'm not entirely sure about what works and what doesn't
Silicone carbide can work but I haven't had great results with it. Aluminium is very good for the polish as it can shine the ironstone quite well. Nova tips vs sapphire should work theoretically as it is just diamond grit in resin but it may be rough on them as the resin is pretty soft. LR rough knobbies are quite expensive as soon as they show potential so may just need to start with some "potch and colour" parcels at about $250AUD.
@@RoysRocks I must have missed the notification for your reply. Thankyou for your feedback. I have been thinking about that recently ,wondering if the material will be better than what is being sold in auction. Not because the auction stuff is bad ,I just can't help but wonder. There is only one way to find out right? Would you have some suggestions on places to look for the various opal types? Thankyou for what you do ! It's super helpful and I hope to have something worthy of sharing pretty soon. All Based on your video instructions ! Be well
@@coreymerrill3257 "Would you have some suggestions on places to look for the various opal types? " If you mean sellers I have shown off a few good ones on the channel so far for various materials. If you go to my playlists and look for ones that sound like names you'll find some great sellers. Nick Hoops, Jullian Stavreas, Jarrad Giles and many more.
I probably would cut two smaller stones out of the blue part, which are then without fractures. This would also help to get a flatter angle on the individual pieces. And maybe one could even get an thin 3th piece, but I probably wouldn't do that to save more of the 2th smaller blue stone.. But that's not easy to tell by just seeing it in a video, not knowing the dimensions. I'm sure you will find a good way.
Hello again, Roy. I just got 1.3kg of boulder opal which is all boulder and no opal. It came with a gift of a piece the size of the one you worked on in this video. That piece has about as much white as you have blue here but it's pure white with a little smear of yellow and it looks like a little bit of fried egg landed on it. What to do with it, any ideas? The seller is on Facebook and tried pitching me another "parcel" with more of the same, plus a piece with a hole for a string through it, for another $270. I know that you won't get anything "precious" for that price but how can they list pure boulder as boulder opal? I expected little hairline veins of colour at least, did I have my hopes too high?
Your hopes are not too high. Even at just a couple hundred bucks you should get a few good stones that are worth working on. I think I know what you mean by the white and yellow fried egg look that you can get in Boulder opal (I have seen a lot of that). Maybe shoot me an email at roys.rocks@yahoo.com and I think I can better help. Also you can send me photos which I always like to see.
Haha back in these days it was either youtube library or a site called bensound. Even then you still get copyright strikes! It is what it is, I'm not going to compose my own music for every video thats for sure.
2 stones after slicing and separating that crack? Ty as always for the video and the FB community Roy.
Yeah maybe even 3 stones depending on how things hold up. Only one way to find out...
Nice one Roy like always
Dope musiq starting at 8:00
Haha. I try to mix up the backing tracks each video. There are a few good copyright free music sites out there.
That is really pretty. Love the lilac colour in it.
I honestly didn't notice the lilac until after the 3000 grit. That prepolish really brought it out of nowhere.
That's some stunning color, it compels you to keep looking at it cos you get subtle variations of color when you view it from different angles, like that purple that showed up at the end, mesmerizing.
You've summed up the joy and wonder of opal perfectly there.
It's so satisfying watching that mud come off! Turned out really nice for only going up to 3000!
Cutting boulder makes me think I might like pottery making. Removing the mud is very therapeutic.
Pretty good Roy, I think that matrix side may turn out pretty good mate, some nice colours in amongst the iron stone.
I will see how it looks after a slice. The small triangle bit I think can still come up nice. The rest im not sure about...
nice colour, the bolder looks nice to cut & work with. good stuff m8👍🎩🇬🇧
The ironstone is really nice to work with. Comes away like butter but can make a muddy mess which is half the fun.
FINALLY!!!!!!!! HELL YES!!!!
I looked back and there hasnt been a boulder video in a while I was actually surprised.
Will have to make up for that. I do have some more coming in...
It is very messy but really beautiful. Great job Roy.
Mud therapy. I havent work some boulder in ages... I need to do some in the next week.
Thank you for showing how to cut boulder opal! I never got a straight answer of how to display the opal from others.
There are many options with boulder opal so do what feels right and looks the best.
Its such an underrated variety of opal!
Nice job Roy, those fractures are annoying, but part of opal I guess. I have a few nice big stones that have ended up as nice smaller stones.😀
Always happy so long as nice stones come out of it, big or small.
thanks for this mate..ive got a lot of colour like this but wasn't sure what i could do with it..good to see a few little imperfections doesn't really matter in the finished stone..
Yeah it's not a big deal. Of course full faced is best in terms of value but sometime an inclusion can add a bit of character to the piece.
@@RoysRocks thanks mate..
Beautiful!
Thanks Evelyn.
Really pretty! Wish the green had emerged a little more. Great job!
Yeah was just a little thin on the opal side.
Very nice videos and explanations, thanks for that! Best vibes from germany mate!
No worries at all hope it helps.
Glad to be able to reach you all the way over in Germany.
Great video Roy.. Is that the new camera? Looks great. Nice colour on that Boulder definitely pinfirey 👍 nice flashy colours...
Nah still not carving with the new camera. Set up just isnt quite right yet.
Thank you for this video, just wondering how you would cut this opal, dremil or saw?
Dremel for sure.
Hi i have an opal like this one im in port Vincent SA im yet to tackle it mine has electric blue purple in it and its a black opal
Sounds like a great stone.
Nice piece with a good colors.
People don't like silent films these days.
@@RoysRocks fair enough .
Looking at the stone with the blue on the top it looks ks good as a picture. Perhaps keep the whole thing as a pendant
I actually can't remember if I ever sliced the excess ironstone away... If might still be in one piece in the collection.
I love the shade of blue in this 1. Its hard to believe its been 2 years man time flys bye
Tell me about it. I still remember recording my first video on my old mobile phone with no microphone or editing 😂
After watching you i just bought my own boulder ship to ameriaca 😄
You'll have fun. It's wonderful material.
It's my colors! (Blue, blue and blue) Hey about these slices I've seen a short of a guy slicing with a diy fixed flex shaft and a diamond disc (two pipe holder screwed on a wood desk) some asian jade carvers also use the flex shaft screwed to a table trick but I've never seen someone use it as a trim saw. Just need a drip to it.
I'll have to see their setup and decide if I like it. The way I do it now isn't to bad but it could be more stable that way.
@@RoysRocks I've seen it in many videos and in person a couple of times it's only two stamped steel (hardware store stuff)1/2 pipe clamp on the flex shaft against a flat surface (vertical or horizontal) it's a semi-permanent setup.
I'll buy 2 of them and post on the community (; could be useful to some...
Edit: A great creative user of rotary tool is RUclipsr and lapidary Ares Shahumyan check him out ...
Nice bit of colour mate
Thanks man.
Will silicone carbide or aluminum oxide work for grinding these? Will nova tips work on sapphire too? Cause I'm a madman for Aussie gems. Got some Rubyvale high grade rough sapphires, working to get some boulder " gamble rough "
And looking for a good price on a small parcel of lightning ridge knobbies . I'm a newbie so I'm not entirely sure about what works and what doesn't
Silicone carbide can work but I haven't had great results with it. Aluminium is very good for the polish as it can shine the ironstone quite well.
Nova tips vs sapphire should work theoretically as it is just diamond grit in resin but it may be rough on them as the resin is pretty soft.
LR rough knobbies are quite expensive as soon as they show potential so may just need to start with some "potch and colour" parcels at about $250AUD.
@@RoysRocks I must have missed the notification for your reply. Thankyou for your feedback.
I have been thinking about that recently ,wondering if the material will be better than what is being sold in auction. Not because the auction stuff is bad ,I just can't help but wonder. There is only one way to find out right? Would you have some suggestions on places to look for the various opal types?
Thankyou for what you do ! It's super helpful and I hope to have something worthy of sharing pretty soon. All Based on your video instructions !
Be well
@@coreymerrill3257 "Would you have some suggestions on places to look for the various opal types? " If you mean sellers I have shown off a few good ones on the channel so far for various materials. If you go to my playlists and look for ones that sound like names you'll find some great sellers.
Nick Hoops, Jullian Stavreas, Jarrad Giles and many more.
I probably would cut two smaller stones out of the blue part, which are then without fractures. This would also help to get a flatter angle on the individual pieces.
And maybe one could even get an thin 3th piece, but I probably wouldn't do that to save more of the 2th smaller blue stone..
But that's not easy to tell by just seeing it in a video, not knowing the dimensions.
I'm sure you will find a good way.
The opal will let me know what it wants when I get slicing. I see three stones from this one.
Hello again, Roy. I just got 1.3kg of boulder opal which is all boulder and no opal. It came with a gift of a piece the size of the one you worked on in this video. That piece has about as much white as you have blue here but it's pure white with a little smear of yellow and it looks like a little bit of fried egg landed on it. What to do with it, any ideas? The seller is on Facebook and tried pitching me another "parcel" with more of the same, plus a piece with a hole for a string through it, for another $270. I know that you won't get anything "precious" for that price but how can they list pure boulder as boulder opal? I expected little hairline veins of colour at least, did I have my hopes too high?
Your hopes are not too high. Even at just a couple hundred bucks you should get a few good stones that are worth working on.
I think I know what you mean by the white and yellow fried egg look that you can get in Boulder opal (I have seen a lot of that).
Maybe shoot me an email at roys.rocks@yahoo.com and I think I can better help.
Also you can send me photos which I always like to see.
slice its straight edge on the crack and make two small stone, possibly pairs!
That might be the way to go.
Where do you buy These Nova Tips?
Depends on where you are in the world? I can give good supplier suggestions for most countries.
@@RoysRocks im located in Germany intry to find them but cant
@@FH-gi3ev Ah European countries are the hardest. I will reconsider shipping from my store to Europe since there are so many wanting kits there.
You helped me learn an unspoken trick . Do not wipe the mud off constantly, it holds water well. Only wipe when you need to see details.
No worries. The best way to go is to have running water but that makes a mess of my filming unfortunately.
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Please tell me you did not pay good money for that terrible backing music !
Haha back in these days it was either youtube library or a site called bensound.
Even then you still get copyright strikes!
It is what it is, I'm not going to compose my own music for every video thats for sure.
@@RoysRocks The other choice is No music . Or the mute button which I used. Everyone on RUclips thinks they are a DJ.