g'day and welcome to black opal direct my name is justin today we're just going to go through
pretty much what a Live is like but we're going to pre-record it so um so there's no failures
because there's been a few microphone problems in the last couple of weeks so I do apologize
for that but this time we're going to have a go and see what comes out let's get to the wheel
all right so we've got a few stones today in the sieve and they'll um hopefully most
of them will cut decent gems well let's get that water going and the machine going
all righty
that piece has got some nice color sitting on the top there
I'll just take those edges around clear them up
pretty much everything around the edges has no color so I am just bringing it into where
the color is there's a big divot there too so we're probably gonna have to bring that right in
yeah because it goes below the color bar you can see that divot right there
which is a bit painful because it could have been a bigger stone
all right so we have a very undulated face so I'm gonna have to be really careful not to lose
the color when I smoothen that face out and I think we've already lost a little bit of color on
that end because there's no there was no color bar there but just bringing it in a little bit further
and there we go pretty little gem I'm still probably going to have to bring that
end in a little bit but there's some nice color there next this one's a little bit
speculative not sure it will cut anything we won't know until we just start rubbing it
so it's pretty much a nothing knobby there was a small amount of color showing up in the top there
I don't know if you can see that but uh it's actually making absolutely nothing that's a no-go
all right so this one here is part of a witch's head knobby you can see that big
dirt dent in the back and there's some color showing up around the edges so
I'm hoping that something decent comes out of this
there is a lot of sand to contend to as well so it'll be interesting to see what we can get
look at that color sitting there look at that red just popped up
so that's sort of a good sign so far
um nice color but I think we've got a bit of a challenge on our hands to get it clean
yeah we do two color bars
yeah so what's going to happen is, unfortunately,
I'm going to have to forgo this red here which is very small anyway
and go for this second color bar underneath hoping that there is something there now that is a big
risk but with this sand here that goes really deep there is nothing going to come out of that stoning
except for a tiny tiny little piece there so here goes nothing I'm going in say goodbye red
this is quite a quite a risky move and it may not pay off it may or may not pay off
just have to see if there's any color lying underneath it and it's not looking good
all right so we did we did take a risk and there's some nice color there and it's cleaner and bigger
but we've got a big white white spot right in the center which is a real pain i can take that extra
extra edge off
take the sandy spot off that side and see what we've got left with
that's a pretty nice color sitting there so the risk was a high risk but I think we've got more
opal than we were going to get with a little tiny red dot so I can't complain that's not bad
not bad that can be a drop shape next one this one should be a nice little gem
nice little high dome I just have to take the sand out of the edges
and I think this was the piece when I was doing it live the other day and we froze up
um so I was really keen to finish it off and show you what came out of it
all right yeah so just roll that dome a little bit
so we've got some beautiful color on that back look at that end pattern
wow and then we've got a nice broad flash on the front so pretty happy with that that's gorgeous
gorgeous little stone
a beautiful look at that double-sided fantastic all right this blue one here
has a blue color bar going through and all we need to really do is find out how it faces
and I'm thinking that we face it this way because there's more poach here
so let's bring that in a little bit there and now we take the top off
not quite on the color bar
yet here it comes
hmm
so it seems that there is a concave on this stone so probably
in hindsight should have gone from the other side because of this dip in the middle
yeah what a shame look at that color i have a funny feeling that goes all
the way to the bottom too so we have to leave it have to leave that watch in unfortunately
but still nice blue just has some inclusions in it not bad all right this one there's a lot of orange
in there you can see orange red really bright has a very good chance of cutting something okay
I don't mind that color bar I'll take some of that point off
so that's not a bad little gem it's directional color but when you get it that's really quite nice
just take that extra little knob off that's got sand all through it
and we roll up that back so it's even
beautiful little dark opal it's not a crystal it's not a black it's a dark
the sand spots gorgeous time look at that beautiful should I be happy with that
next this is like a little mini witch's hat knobby and with the white cap on top
and I can see that mostly around it is clean I'll just clean that side up it's not bad
and there we'll come around on this side see if the color bar comes around this side too
and we've hit color bar all the way around you can see
our color bars all the way around so I think now it's time to
take its top off
come on show me the money just breaking through the top of it now
we need we need this color to be clean
and there's a big sand spot right through the center look at that big sand spot there
which is painful because this could have been good
anyway I think this one needs to be sliced get a small stone there and another stone there
and get rid of all that sand in the center all right next one this
one should be just a beautiful little crystal and pretty straight forward too
so what we've got is we've got really good color down this side and then we've got lesser color
on that side it's not as good not as strong and bright and there's big dips there too so
I am going to just trim and trim that side too
and we're just just going to snap that off like that there we go so I can still cut a
stone out of that one but I'll put that away and we'll work on the good color
beautiful
very nice crystal look at that that's beautiful I'm happy with that alrighty I think but one
more to go now this knobby has some really pretty color but I don't know how big it will be so just
have to work our way in until we find the cleanest color part of the color bar and then go with that
all right so I'm going to just go and try and take that sand
off and hope that there's good color underneath it
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so I have to keep going in until this sand here doesn't touch the color and it's pretty
much there now so just take it off the top and see what happens see if she comes clean
oh that is nice color oh I'm happy with that one that's beautiful
oh wow really happy
look at the color of that guy that's gorgeous just need that sand out of the top
there it is
around that a little bit so it had to come a little bit smaller but not too much and
voila we have a beautiful beautiful little black opal that's gorgeous so let's um let's do a quick
quick recap this is quite a nice gem I'm really happy with that one that turned out beautiful
let's turn this to stop this wheel wear my fingers away here we go check out that beautiful stone
this is the one that I'm gonna have to slice it in the middle to cut two stones on either side
this is the crystal pretty crystal that will turn out probably double sided or close to it
this is the broad flash red-orange you can see it's quite bright when you really get it
there's also blue or purple there in green and depending on the angle you're at which is quite
nice this is a little high dome gem which I'm really happy with too
turned out beautiful double-sided that'll be nice finished this one I thought would
be better than that um that pot spot in the middle kind of ruined it but still nice color
and this one also the potch was not consistently black underneath so we've got some nice color as
you can see but the potch underneath makes it look kind of mottly rather than a nice black
opal so we've got a black section in the middle but then around the edges, it's all quite dark
just dark not not black here's the first piece and that one needs to come in a little bit
further but we've got really pretty pattern in there we've got chaff pattern you can see that
chaff there got cloverleaf pattern so it should be quite a nice stain polished and that is it
so thank you guys for um for tuning in love you all and I hope you enjoyed that catcher