this is the best place in the world
oh well I found a rock on the ground
well this is really actually quite a nice piece
I remember it before I lost it so it's uh from the way aiming field in lightning Ridge and it's
a knobby opal some beautiful colors sitting there on the top and it's got that white cap
only just forming on the top so it looks like it will be pretty easy to take off but whether it's
clean and if it is clean that color that blue and that red color combination is so rare and
so beautiful it could be a five thousand dollar plus Stone you just don't know until we get into
there have a look but I do like the way the color bar is making its way almost all the way around
White Cap so let's see what we can do
water get a better idea of those colors
alrighty
let's see if we can get some nice color underneath that white cap this is
all the good signs of a nice knobby in one piece so let's get that wheel going water on
and we'll do what we normally do just start going around the edges a little bit foreign
so I'm taking it in there because the sand spot and all the cap on the top
going it's hitting the bottom so it doesn't really matter too much but I'm taking some more away
actually is this look watch there could darken the stone inside
there's a small chance but it could there is a chance it's like Dumb and Dumber
you mean there's a chance like a million to one so there's a chance
I really need to get it all the way into pretty much into there where
the color sits and then we'll take its top off
's just starting on that side underneath that white cap very thin but just starting so we can
afford to go in a little bit further and you can see it there too it's just starting there
color sitting right on that bar of Potch so the chances here are really really getting good
of cutting something amazing so this hole here could mess me up but I need to find
out what's going on underneath there so it's time I'm going in
oh wow that sand spot actually looks deeper than I thought it would be oh my Lord
oh my that's really opened up into a big sand blog right there
major major spanner in the works I've lost all the color on this side where the sand
is and that sand looks like it goes right in so I may be only getting a stone out of
here which is a real shame could have been an amazing gem so let's go further in and find out
yeah you can see that sand touching the bottom
ah no
carrot three to four carat gem is now being squeezed down to possibly just one carrot so
it's a bit of a shame but that sand
it's my best friend and my worst enemy
see as I go further in it's still going still making it quite hard
now if I try and roll that sand out let's see it coming out a little bit
it's not going to come out all the way
this actually was a keystone in a very expensive parcel and I had a lot of money riding on this one
that's really pretty color but geez it's getting small there is a good sign though
that you can see the color underneath the sand spot so that should roll out
and come clean yep
just trying to get all that punch off the back
so I'm still getting a gem with nice color it's not four carats but it's
going to be around the one and a half to two I would say very pretty color
this goes to show you just until from a plain knobby to the finished product
can be vastly different to what you're expecting
and it really you really need to take that into account
when you're evaluating a piece of rough opal
because there is always an element of risk
so there we go
ready for the dop stick
sometimes life dries as curveballs sometimes we get wins sometimes we
get losses you know it's just like life this opal cutting and you've got to make
the most of it if you keep a positive frame of mind you'll learn something
from a bad situation it's really important to keep a positive mindset
thank you
all right well that was um that was a quite a ride that really big sand blob in the center of the
stone took a lot away from the stone but still it could have actually eaten most of the stone so I'm
still very lucky to have got a decent beautiful little gem and you know what it sits on the edge
of black opal so I'm really I'm really quite happy also weighs 1.72 carats so we're looking
at around about a two and a half to three thousand dollar gem which is really good um actually stoked
because it could have been nothing so what a beautiful gem now I'd love to hear in the
comments from you guys what what pattern you think this is so let me know and every time somebody
gets the pattern right I will love your comment thanks for watching and I'll see you next time