I greatly prefer commentary. I don't feel like I'm learning anything and there's no anticipation to the reveal. Will it turn out? Will it be as good as we hope? I think we need those stakes.
@@blackopaldirect While I love Justin's commentary, I enjoyed being able to "test" myself on whether or not I could predict how the stone would be cut. Wow - can Justin see the gem between the sand!
Yup Im glad Im not the only one. Everytime the stone scrape sound ends I hear Justin reminding me what it looks like when dream come true. I however am still dreaming of receiving so many gorgeous stones.
You have helped me through some of my roughest periods of grieving. Just turn on your channel and the creative artistry just draws me in. Wish each time you would hit a "gold mine" of opal gems. It is so soothing and you are one very special person. You see humor in the world along with showing your feeling. Yet when you are at your wheel that serious absorbed look comes over your face. Watching your hands move the gem stone articulates your creative flow. Thank you for your help.
I am still watching old videos, but wanted to come to the most recent one and say how much i appreciate that you are sharing all this with us. So mesmerizing watching these beautifull stones. Thank you kind Sir :)
You have opened a whole new world to me!! I have opal jewelry but have never even really LOOKED at it!! Now I am MARVELING at each stone!!!! THANK YOU!!
Those three pieces at around the 14.5 min mart remind me so strongly of the water and the night through the eyes of Vincent van Gogh. Stunning gems and very different from most of what we see.
After having watched all your videos religiously, this was a nice change of pace and opportunity to exercise my thoughts on how to approach each opal ~ which, incidentally was basically the same as how you cut all of them. I’m sure a lot of your audience thought the same. Much love to you Justin and BOD.
You are an artist! Good job expanding your viewer base with ASMR too. I really do enjoy your videos, and I appreciate how you talk through your thought process. It was fun to guess what you were thinking this time.
nice video but i think i prefer the talking ones, i never know the process so i like when you explain your cuts and grinding and why you chose a certain side or angle, nice opal anyway.
Just recently started watching but this is so satisfying to watch. I do like your commentary while cutting to understand your process. All in all love your content. My wife’s favorite gem is opal and she loves watching you work too. Thank you for the glimpse of your world.
I love watching you do your magic. I forget my problems when watching you. I did 30 years in construction,10 years in the Air Force,a lot of great jobs. I worked on canal street jewelry exchange in the 1960s. You do beautiful work. When I was working gold was less than $100 an once. Thank You.👍🌈🍎🍷🌻🙂
This is the first ASMR video that I like. I watched the entire video. There's something very pleasing about seeing all those beautiful colours being revealed.
I really enjoy your videos more than any others. You've got the best opal I've ever seen and the most experienced opal person I've ever watched. I'm too old to "be like you someday" but one can always have high hopes. I'm learning and it's not an easy thing to just do, I've been watching videos for a year and just got my first sandy Opal to practice on. To hold it and see the color made me understand why people get so excited. I like Opal more than gold, or in gold 😂 Thanks for all of your help and information. Your work is priceless and I truly appreciate your videos
As much as I like it when you narrate what your doing, I can really appreciate being able to just watch you cut. It allows me to see if you do what I think should be done. Sometimes I'm right sometimes I'm wrong. Thank you.
Wow Wow Wow is all I can utter !!!! Under your magical fingertips they all turned out to be one special gem after another. Primordial fire in the universe in them gems. I can't afford any but I can still appreciate some of the most beautiful play of colours in nature.
Justin, you are so fun to watch, it's all about you and Melissa and then the opal. Of course the Opal is my birthstone and as I have told you in other comments, I've been searching for a opal for a ring, want to surround in small diamonds. I have been shopping in your store, and just might find one. I'm old lady now (when I was young I used to be pretty and hot bod), so I can get a gaudy larger stone!! I'm thinking around 4-7 carats, they are all so pretty, no other stone will do what the opal does, such beauty. Watching all these videso really makes me want to go to Australia!
Watching a Potter throwing clay onto a wheel...or a watercolour artist capture light and shadow in minutes with confident and expert strokes...these and more capture the attention and take one to a place of admiration and wonder. But watching such beautiful colour and light being coaxed out of stone; well, that's something else.
What amazing parcel that opal, myltiple opal types and colors, and looked hard too, from glassy crystal to tiger flash to deepest blue and black, wow❤❤❤❤
I could also hear every word you would be saying. I love d this ASMR version. I could feel the tension more without talking. Making the decisions on whether and where to split the gems. Good parcel. My favorite was the dark crystal with the flagstone pattern. Lovely.
It's really satisfying thinking " I'd grind that corner off next the work down the back" or whatever and then you do it! Like you can read your thoughts through the stone
You scare me with some of the decisions your making on which direction to take an opal in. Considering how much duff you seem to cut from the stone it always comes out beautifully done and ready for the polishing wheel...
They're all so pretty! My favorite is the really thin double sided crystal one with the purples and teals. Close second is the really fat one with the reds and golds.
Justin watching you work your magic of bringing Beautiful Opals to life is always an AWESOME EVENT ! Thank you for sharing this with me ! Take care , stay safe and healthy with whatever you maybe doing next ! Doing okay here in Kansas as it's bitterly cold and snowing . It's supposedly will be for the next 2 weeks .
WOW ! You got your money back on the lot ! They 're all so pretty ! You weren't lying... The small double sided crystal opal with fire pattern, pink and all the colors of the rainbow is absolutely stunning ! GOOD FIND ! WELL DONE ! :D
Ooooo... Awwwwe... All those colours and patterns. Almost takes the mind off the bitter cold. At time of typing this, -43 Celsius in Western Canada (YYC)
This might sound weird but I love the pure beautiful black potch. Yeah the colour bars are glittery and unbelievably stunning. But in itself I really love the way the black potch looks, even when there is no play of colour. ❤️
Nnnnngggg.... okay, I know blues aren't the most sought-after color for opal, but there's something about the way blue floats and glimmers, particularly in crystal opal, that breathes life into my soul.
Amazing opals Justin, it's good to watch an artist at work. All of them were lovely but the I think the black opals with the rainbow specks, like stars in the galaxy. Thank you
At the end of the video, the 3rd one you showed, the double sided one with the flashes of purple was my favorite. The play of color was just brilliant. Then the crystal ones were pretty as well. Then towards the very end the glittery patterned darks were wonderful too.
I loved the shape of the opal at 15:29, black potch rim, a little sand bunker at the edge and a slight ghosting of grey potch cloud over the centre. For me that was the perfect place to swap to the dop stick and polish, with the piece telling you the story of its origins! I suspect as I continue watch Justin will regularise it- he knows his market! But for now I can dream it is mine (my guess is a $10k stone!)
'What a wonderful world'.....!? Nice 'fella' you are! Love to your family. You have the fun streak in your veins, so do I with my family, it's a laugh a minute, we are so happy.
As an amateur cab cutter, I appreciate all you teach us! I was so glad when you cut that piece in two at 17:xx, exactly where I thought it should be cut. As an amateur silversmith/jeweler as well, I very much appreciate why you cut to ovals and rounds and squares. Thank you for the marvelous videos!
Just watched this one again. So many gorgeous gems. 😍 The Jaggedy yellow striped one, the fiery orange, the black pinfire/night sky and the crystal with all the purples are my favorites! Glad they're long gone because I wouldn't have been able to choose just 1!! Bravo Justin, you worked your magic and revealed some stunning gems!
Justin, you almost make it instinctual when I watch. You observe the stone, then your next move always makes sense. Amazing. Thank you for the incredible insight into these beautiful stones.
The one you cut near the end around 32:00 mark.. light blue dark blue green,maybe purple..look just like the one I had for 40 years...the stone cracked and loss half the setting sad day for me...I so loved the coloring....It made me smile too see a stone like it agian...thank you plus the last stone yellow red..I'm calling it (dragon fire) beautiful..
Justin, these stones are amazing. My son visited Australia in 2007 on a short 3 week scholarship win through his school. He brought back a small gem for me that I have made into a ring. It is truly beautiful. These stones are mesmerising. Wow! Your skill is fantastic. Thanks for sharing. Best regards from South Africa 🇿🇦
Watching this I'm on pins and needles. I see all the rich beautiful color and I'm afraid to cut it. Then again that's why you're the cutter and I'm the watcher. LOL Really beautiful stones. I love the one with the lavender the most. Thanks for the fun video ♥♥♥
My heart broke when you split the Black Nebular Opal :( If this had been a live, you'd have been able to hear me scream 'NO JUSTIN!' all the way from the UK lol Also was sat here thinking 'How long before he forgets he's not supposed to be talking...' Didn't take long, I laughed :) Great parcel, I hope you do us a polish up vid!
Love your videos! Nice idea with the ASMR to expand your audience
Thank you 🙏
I greatly prefer commentary. I don't feel like I'm learning anything and there's no anticipation to the reveal. Will it turn out? Will it be as good as we hope? I think we need those stakes.
@@mikejackson2228 good feedback. Thank you
@@blackopaldirect While I love Justin's commentary, I enjoyed being able to "test" myself on whether or not I could predict how the stone would be cut. Wow - can Justin see the gem between the sand!
stick asmr where the sun don't shine. bloody weirdos we want to hear you talking let the autistics stick to there anime
My mind is doing the talking for you. “Look at that yellow color! I rarely see yellow. This stone could be a stunner.”
Haha right!
Yup Im glad Im not the only one. Everytime the stone scrape sound ends I hear Justin reminding me what it looks like when dream come true. I however am still dreaming of receiving so many gorgeous stones.
Okay we do the dancing also 😊
lol haha wkwk
Yea he got 3 or so with that yellow im jelly 🤌
We need more videos like this... ASMR and Opals are a match made in... Australia, mostly.
😂😂😂
You have helped me through some of my roughest periods of grieving. Just turn on your channel and the creative artistry just draws me in. Wish each time you would hit a "gold mine" of opal gems. It is so soothing and you are one very special person. You see humor in the world along with showing your feeling. Yet when you are at your wheel that serious absorbed look comes over your face. Watching your hands move the gem stone articulates your creative flow. Thank you for your help.
Thank you Sue. You are very kind. ❤️🙏
I love to watch you bring the Opals to life, thank you Justin
Makes me happy you enjoy 😊
I am still watching old videos, but wanted to come to the most recent one and say how much i appreciate that you are sharing all this with us. So mesmerizing watching these beautifull stones. Thank you kind Sir :)
🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️ thank you
I how you get to meet Justin. It's a wonderful experience.
The hypnotic sounds of the grinding wheel...love it.
definetly watched few other opal channels and theyve not fixed sound and grinding sound is just to intense to watch to many
When it comes to revealing the beauty of opal, you Sir are a genius
You have opened a whole new world to me!! I have opal jewelry but have never even really LOOKED at it!! Now I am MARVELING at each stone!!!! THANK YOU!!
Yay
Thé transparent one is just jaw dropping 😯🤩
Those three pieces at around the 14.5 min mart remind me so strongly of the water and the night through the eyes of Vincent van Gogh. Stunning gems and very different from most of what we see.
After having watched all your videos religiously, this was a nice change of pace and opportunity to exercise my thoughts on how to approach each opal ~ which, incidentally was basically the same as how you cut all of them. I’m sure a lot of your audience thought the same. Much love to you Justin and BOD.
Thanks Mitch
You are an artist! Good job expanding your viewer base with ASMR too. I really do enjoy your videos, and I appreciate how you talk through your thought process. It was fun to guess what you were thinking this time.
can't wait to see them polished. specially that red amber one.
nice video but i think i prefer the talking ones, i never know the process so i like when you explain your cuts and grinding and why you chose a certain side or angle, nice opal anyway.
I like the talking ones too..
I love hearing your excitement when a beautiful Opals starts to appear....
I have to agree, but I am loving how many we got to see. I hope we get to see this set all finished up later.
I love hearing how excited you get with a great color coming through
I love your commentaries, Justin.
That 3rd from the giant knobby, the black opal, it looked like a galaxy! A galaxy opal. Is it my TM 🤣🤗
I thought it looked like Van Gogh Starry Night
My favorite too! I also thought about the Van Gogh!!
Just recently started watching but this is so satisfying to watch. I do like your commentary while cutting to understand your process. All in all love your content. My wife’s favorite gem is opal and she loves watching you work too. Thank you for the glimpse of your world.
The cobalt blue opal with beautiful green sparks in the screen shot is the most beautiful one I've ever seen. 😍💜💙
I'm glad you did not settle on this ASMR format. Your conversations add a lot to the content.
I love watching you do your magic. I forget my problems when watching you. I did 30 years in construction,10 years in the Air Force,a lot of great jobs. I worked on canal street jewelry exchange in the 1960s. You do beautiful work. When I was working gold was less than $100 an once. Thank You.👍🌈🍎🍷🌻🙂
All of them were absolutely beautiful. You’re gifted with the passion and touch in cutting opals. Another awesome video, keep them coming.
This is the first ASMR video that I like. I watched the entire video. There's something very pleasing about seeing all those beautiful colours being revealed.
I really enjoy your videos more than any others. You've got the best opal I've ever seen and the most experienced opal person I've ever watched. I'm too old to "be like you someday" but one can always have high hopes. I'm learning and it's not an easy thing to just do, I've been watching videos for a year and just got my first sandy Opal to practice on. To hold it and see the color made me understand why people get so excited. I like Opal more than gold, or in gold 😂
Thanks for all of your help and information. Your work is priceless and I truly appreciate your videos
As much as I like it when you narrate what your doing, I can really appreciate being able to just watch you cut. It allows me to see if you do what I think should be done. Sometimes I'm right sometimes I'm wrong. Thank you.
Just mute your electronics.
Oooohhhh wow! Some beautiful stones out of that batch! Spectacular! Thank you so much for sharing 😁
Wow Wow Wow is all I can utter !!!! Under your magical fingertips they all turned out to
be one special gem after another.
Primordial fire in the universe in them gems. I can't afford any but I can still appreciate
some of the most beautiful play of colours in nature.
Justin, you are so fun to watch, it's all about you and Melissa and then the opal. Of course the Opal is my birthstone and as I have told you in other comments, I've been searching for a opal for a ring, want to surround in small diamonds. I have been shopping in your store, and just might find one. I'm old lady now (when I was young I used to be pretty and hot bod), so I can get a gaudy larger stone!! I'm thinking around 4-7 carats, they are all so pretty, no other stone will do what the opal does, such beauty. Watching all these videso really makes me want to go to Australia!
We all miss the sound of your soothing voice.
Watching a Potter throwing clay onto a wheel...or a watercolour artist capture light and shadow in minutes with confident and expert strokes...these and more capture the attention and take one to a place of admiration and wonder. But watching such beautiful colour and light being coaxed out of stone; well, that's something else.
I was 30 minutes into watching the video before I remembered to blink.
Hahaha
Now addicted not only to your opals but to you too! What a master of your craft with an engaging personality you are.
❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏
Soothes the soul the sounds of the grinds then you catch that first glimpse of the shine....is quite devine!!! Time well spent !
WOW, that chunk at 7 minutes was beautifully mysterious as is before cutting it, amazing piece. 😊😊😊
Oh heck yeah, very sweet gems. Very cool, very well done Justin
Great episode! But, really, ALL your episodes are profoundly interesting. Always a great experience! Thanks!
Absolutely breathtaking. Thank you for sharing your beautiful opals with us!
Spectacular !!! The yellow n' orange is gorgeous.
That second small stone with the yellow gold snakeskin pattern is my favorite👍
What amazing parcel that opal, myltiple opal types and colors, and looked hard too, from glassy crystal to tiger flash to deepest blue and black, wow❤❤❤❤
I could also hear every word you would be saying. I love d this ASMR version. I could feel the tension more without talking. Making the decisions on whether and where to split the gems. Good parcel. My favorite was the dark crystal with the flagstone pattern. Lovely.
Cuts some of the best opal I’ve ever seen in one video
I cannot believe what you pulled off with that 1rst stone. Amazing!
It's really satisfying thinking " I'd grind that corner off next the work down the back" or whatever and then you do it! Like you can read your thoughts through the stone
I enjoy watching so closely to see where you rub next, trying to think through your decisions. SKILLS!
You scare me with some of the decisions your making on which direction to take an opal in. Considering how much duff you seem to cut from the stone it always comes out beautifully done and ready for the polishing wheel...
The stone with the amber body tone is so different. I love it, I hope we get to see that one finished 🥰
Dazzling how they pop when you table them.Such an amazing stone that you get to work with.
They're all so pretty! My favorite is the really thin double sided crystal one with the purples and teals. Close second is the really fat one with the reds and golds.
The cutting sounds make me so relaxed, makes me feel at home.
Yeah that yellow with the red! "It should be called the dragon's eye opal" Awesome
Justin watching you work your magic of bringing Beautiful Opals to life is always an AWESOME EVENT ! Thank you for sharing this with me ! Take care , stay safe and healthy with whatever you maybe doing next ! Doing okay here in Kansas as it's bitterly cold and snowing . It's supposedly will be for the next 2 weeks .
I am transfixed ! Stupefied ! In total awe at the heavenly wonders you create ! !!
WOW ! You got your money back on the lot ! They 're all so pretty !
You weren't lying... The small double sided crystal opal with fire pattern, pink and all the colors of the rainbow is absolutely stunning !
GOOD FIND ! WELL DONE ! :D
Thank you Eric
How much would you value this stone btw ? Is it going to be uploaded to your online shop ? (or are you gonna keep "the precious" for yourself ?) 😁
I love that super black one with the brighter color flashes
Love how you cut the second one because of the sand and ended up with two nice stones!
Thanks for the vid as always and sharing. I personally love to hear your accent and thought process while you're cutting. Hug the crew for me.
😊 thank you
I have watched your videos off and on when I come across them you take ruff stones and turn them into beautiful works of art thank you for your work
Ooooo... Awwwwe... All those colours and patterns. Almost takes the mind off the bitter cold. At time of typing this, -43 Celsius in Western Canada (YYC)
This might sound weird but I love the pure beautiful black potch. Yeah the colour bars are glittery and unbelievably stunning. But in itself I really love the way the black potch looks, even when there is no play of colour. ❤️
The third rough cut looked like a nebula. I caught myself holding my breath as I watched you cut the opals.
Black opals are lovely, but the crystal opals will always be my favourite, and there were tons of gorgeous ones in this batch!! Fab video as always 💖
Nnnnngggg.... okay, I know blues aren't the most sought-after color for opal, but there's something about the way blue floats and glimmers, particularly in crystal opal, that breathes life into my soul.
Amazing opals Justin, it's good to watch an artist at work. All of them were lovely but the I think the black opals with the rainbow specks, like stars in the galaxy. Thank you
A great mix of awesome gem's. Thank you for sharing!!!
The sand spots always seem like they are just everywhere, but somehow you magically make them disappear and the gem comes out.. beautiful work
I think the fireball is my favorite one out of those.All are gorgeous but that one stands out.Thanks Justin
I finally got to see a gorgeous double sided crystal take shape! What an absolutely stunning stone. Good one, Justin!
I really want to learn how to cut and polish opal. My heart was racing just watching. I can only imagine the adrenalin rush actually working the gems!
Wow, I really loved the color in that first one.
Some belters in there, but that Crystal Opal was divine! It’s like a stain glass window 😍
Good job Justin personally I thought a couple of them would’ve been better candidates for carving
ITs amazing how much beauty comes from your patience and skill.
At the end of the video, the 3rd one you showed, the double sided one with the flashes of purple was my favorite. The play of color was just brilliant. Then the crystal ones were pretty as well. Then towards the very end the glittery patterned darks were wonderful too.
This was an awesome video. Just you and the opals. WOW! loved it.... thank you
I loved the shape of the opal at 15:29, black potch rim, a little sand bunker at the edge and a slight ghosting of grey potch cloud over the centre. For me that was the perfect place to swap to the dop stick and polish, with the piece telling you the story of its origins! I suspect as I continue watch Justin will regularise it- he knows his market! But for now I can dream it is mine (my guess is a $10k stone!)
this was nice. just seeing the process and the nice opal shine.
i definitely like the larger opal in this vid. super lovely.
Listening to this while i clean!!! It's very relaxing!!!
'What a wonderful world'.....!? Nice 'fella' you are! Love to your family. You have the fun streak in your veins, so do I with my family, it's a laugh a minute, we are so happy.
As an amateur cab cutter, I appreciate all you teach us! I was so glad when you cut that piece in two at 17:xx, exactly where I thought it should be cut. As an amateur silversmith/jeweler as well, I very much appreciate why you cut to ovals and rounds and squares. Thank you for the marvelous videos!
After a busy stressful day this is exactly what I need to wind down thank u!!
The last one you ground, the one with the brownish background, looks like it trapped fire inside... It's magnificent.
Just watched this one again. So many gorgeous gems. 😍 The Jaggedy yellow striped one, the fiery orange, the black pinfire/night sky and the crystal with all the purples are my favorites! Glad they're long gone because I wouldn't have been able to choose just 1!! Bravo Justin, you worked your magic and revealed some stunning gems!
Thank you Cathi
They turned out beautifully!!
OMG some of these stones are magical. Wow just wow
Justin, you almost make it instinctual when I watch. You observe the stone, then your next move always makes sense. Amazing. Thank you for the incredible insight into these beautiful stones.
Thank you Frank
Excellent job. Hope to see these up for sale in your store. The ASMR was great.
so zen!!! i love hearing you talk about opals and have learnt so much but these videos go great with a cup of coffee in the morning =)
The one you cut near the end around 32:00 mark.. light blue dark blue green,maybe purple..look just like the one I had for 40 years...the stone cracked and loss half the setting sad day for me...I so loved the coloring....It made me smile too see a stone like it agian...thank you plus the last stone yellow red..I'm calling it (dragon fire) beautiful..
I would love to see these Opals when you finish them up !
Master at his best. Thank you for sharing loved it.♥️
such a beautiful gem. This never gets old.
I love the skillful way you let the opal reveal itself!
Justin, these stones are amazing. My son visited Australia in 2007 on a short 3 week scholarship win through his school. He brought back a small gem for me that I have made into a ring. It is truly beautiful. These stones are mesmerising. Wow! Your skill is fantastic. Thanks for sharing. Best regards from South Africa 🇿🇦
Watching this I'm on pins and needles. I see all the rich beautiful color and I'm afraid to cut it. Then again that's why you're the cutter and I'm the watcher. LOL Really beautiful stones. I love the one with the lavender the most. Thanks for the fun video ♥♥♥
My heart broke when you split the Black Nebular Opal :( If this had been a live, you'd have been able to hear me scream 'NO JUSTIN!' all the way from the UK lol Also was sat here thinking 'How long before he forgets he's not supposed to be talking...' Didn't take long, I laughed :) Great parcel, I hope you do us a polish up vid!
So many stunning stones!
From all the stunning patterns and bright colors uncovered, I'm sure this parcel paid off well :)
Been watching this pro for almost 12 years. Hopefully one day I will get as good. Thank you Justin!
Mate that looks like an awesome parcel! Some really beautiful gems in there.
Omg that clear one with the purple and blue I'm in love 😍
Wow that was so satisfying to watch, my favorite one was the little roundish one with purple and turquoise beautiful 😍😍
Wow! That first piece as it gets to the 4:25 mark, looks spectacular, even with that sand blob!