all right i can turn it up one more and then um you should be able to hear me properly so yeah let
us know um this is uh this is a bit of trial and error and i really want to show you around there's
a fair bit to go before we can say we're up and running 100 but within one week that will happen
so we've got some pretty exciting things to show you which i'm excited about
so just give me a thumbs up again good now good now excellent yes we're on
well this is our new space now we're going to take you for a
tour later on down the track of the whole place because it's actually massive isn't it
there's big it's upstairs there's downstairs there's no downstairs there's a storage area
there's so much and we've got so much room to play and it's going to be awesome fun table tennis we
can play table tennis yeah we could park a boat in here or a caravan we could come live here actually
we've got toilets and showers and everything so it's pretty cool set up a rock climbing wall oh
we could do a rock club how cool would that be very cool and look at this we have different
camera angles today we're going to be looking at some opal that i'm going to show you and
it's pretty exciting um it's going to be pretty cool and we've got some great technology now that
saves us carrying an iphone around that we i hang up on you and all my son calls me
and it cuts us off or whatever so yeah it's going to be so much more fun and easy to work
yeah and uh yeah so we're professionals now oh we're professionals we have a studio space
yes yes it's pretty exciting pretty exciting yeah so uh how's it going everybody give me a shout out
let me know where you are in the world i want to know i want to know because it's always nice to
see everybody from every country kenneth you thank you so much that's very kind of you very kind um
so the table i have built a table which is right below us but i'm not going to share that with
you just yet it's not finished so it's um it's on wooden horses at the moment and i need to get it
properly built and you're going to love it it's going to be magnificent there's going to be uh
yeah pretty cool story in the table itself so what's going to happen today um just thought
i'd take you around my workshop a little bit and then we're going to have a look at some opals
there is one stone that that i've been talking about for quite a long time now and
what's going to happen today is i'm going to give you a little sneak preview of that opal and it's
something that my dad and i had been searching for for the last 60 years and i finally found it and
just after the live if you stay tuned we're going to make the video that we've already made go live
on our channel and you can see this stone and the whole story and it's pretty amazing it's going to
be great fun and you're going to love the story it's quite heartfelt and my life is now complete
so this is my this is our new workshop which is pretty cool um the benches have been all custom
made aluminium welded frames solid as as a rock and um you can see over here we've got another
camera that i've just temporarily set up but we got camera brackets everywhere over machines where
we want to film so that it'll be all set up and you won't have to worry about me hanging up on you
we've also got ruth did a very special thing for me it was a surprise as we were building
she made this sign i'm going in so there you go i'm pretty i was pretty chuffed about that and um
you can change the where is the thing look at this you can change it to bright and dark and bright
and yeah we're just figuring out where to put all the machines and
before i can figure that out we need to get water and drainage so the water and drainage
the plumber is coming in two days time which i'm really excited about because that's the
pretty much the icing on the cake for the whole workshop and it's going to be pretty cool
we need to get a beautiful water cistern for the whole thing and taps going down to the machine
and now underneath we're going to have a drainage a whole drainage system that goes
into one silk tank so that all the opal dirt and water goes into the silt tank
and settles and then the water can overflow out into a drain which is going to be pretty special
or you can't even see my head because it's cut off whoops i'll just sit here like this
so yeah there's not a lot i can show you there's not going to be any opal cutting today
but what i do want to show you over here is some special stones so
i it's not going to be very long let's go back to this camera
so it's not going to be very long today but i do want to share with you some amazing stones because
in two weeks time or just less than two weeks we're actually going to tucson and we'll be at
the gem show and we'll be showing all our wares so i want to give you a little sneak preview of
some of the stones that are going to be coming and be on display there some will be for sale
some some won't um sorry i can't see your messages from here so i hope you're all well but um
i uh i think we could go over here to the other camera and um we can have a look at some of the
jams now you've seen some of the gems in some of the videos i've made but there is one over there
that will that is going to knock your socks off so shall we go over and um have a look yes
all right here we go so i'm not sure if you guys have seen this guy before
this is a monster crystal opal and it comes from andamuka and i could polish the back as well if i
wanted to but that is 31 carats that's a crazy big gem fantastic stone that one's coming to tucson
so you'll be able to see that there this one is a piece that you probably recognize in one
of the videos and this guy will be in tucson as well and there's a that's a cool video on youtube
with this one very cool also this one was i think alive i cut this one in alive and you got to enjoy
this one coming out nice and beautiful
and this one here was also i think in
in a video as well i think i did to make a video out of that one
and that's not an oval check out that
so you'll find that the image quality in this in our videos now are actually so much better as
well because we're at 1080p which might not mean anything but it's much higher quality video so
you'll be happy to hear about that too so no more blurry bad buffering going on so this stone
is that one in one of the youtube videos where i took i risked all of that color on the top and the
potch to come down to get a clean color bar and that one turned out magnificent i love this stone
all right not long ago i acquired this stone and this one has beautiful color on color
with chaff and flagstone pattern which is magnificent um beautiful high dome stone and what
a uh what a nice ring stone that would be it's um it's just a beauty
look at that gorgeous stone and one more this one here very nice blue pin fire with a bit of green
in it too so now i want to show you a stone that has taken my father and i 60 years to find and
if you stay tuned after this video there's a video going live so you get a double up today
of awesome videos and you will see the story of this amazing gem
now blue and red together like this just doesn't come around every day every year probably not even
every decade and if you want to check out the story of where this guy was sitting underground
for many years it will be in the story i'm not going to tell it to you now but magnificent stone
and i've been waiting a long time to find one like that and it's magnificent i didn't cut it
it came as it is straight from the miner they cut the stone and they made the best the most
color they could get out of the knobby that it was and that's the shape it ended up being
all right that's pretty cool all right let's get back to the oopsbang crash main camera
so uh what do you reckon is it a nice stone
it should go 4k um yes we can't we can't go 4k um yet but um in the future we'll be able to
do 4k working on it australia doesn't have that fast internet yet unfortunately we're not like
um other countries where the internet is fantastic yeah we're down under
slow you've got to talk to us slowly yes so um i'm really excited guys this is um this is an
awesome event coming right after this video so watch out for it we'll make it public in a few
probably 20 minutes so stick around and um you will see it so i'm really excited to have shared
this with you um next time we do this it will be fully we'll be fully into some rough pieces and
we'll cut some nice stones and see if we can get something out from going in sounds about right
excellent oh larry thank you larry very kind of you oh i should look here actually oh and check
this out check this out this is a new feature um if somebody's done something really nice
like um the t-shirt uh let me see i've got a message here wrap it up there we go we can put
your message on the screen and this could be a question and so when i answer your question
it can show up in the form of a message on the screen so everybody can see it and you
can be highlighted which is very cool so we're very excited to have this new
um new technology and yeah so thanks very much for watching and um we are outta here
see you guys stay tuned 20 minutes 20 minutes you can't go to work you can't go to sleep
you have to stay and watch please it's the best story about this stone ever come on