Opal cutting: Andamooka.
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- G’day everyone, I hope you’re all well! In this video we’ll be cutting some Andamooka white opal with a beautiful orange/red colours. Taking the time to carefully remove the sand, ensuring as larger stone as possible, aiming for a double sided stone, I hope you enjoy, thanks for your time, cheers. 🤪👍
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2 beautiful opals there. The green one is really vibrant. Thanks for the video.
Thought it was going to be thinned out to a doublet, but as usual, you were able to bring out a gorgeous stone and double-sided at that.
Gorgeous Phil, you made the right call leaving the wee translucent stone solid....its stunning! 😍🤩
Clever to change the shape and the offcuts aren’t what I’d thought to do, but gave you a chance to cut some smalls, both beautifully done and lovely stone. Thanks for sharing
Another two beautifully cut and gorgeous stones there Phil bravo 👏 The green and gold one a perfect stone to cut and show for Anzac Day mate 🫡
You rock 🪨 👍
Phil, fantastic white & the green in the jelly is electric bright!
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The master cutter Phil.
Beautiful work. The gems are fabulous. Love watching all the variety of videos you post.
Another great explanation and video. Thanks for your consideration om my Mom's 75 birthday pendant
That is some HOT rough, and you got two seriously nice stones out of it. Thanks for sharing!
Impressive stuff. They're both beautiful stones and your cutting certainly is on point.
Great job cutting as always 👏 👌
Beautiful opal pieces and even more stunning cut and polished opals, you are really talanted Phil 👋💎👍!
You cut like a star
Learned a lot from this one. Thanks, yet again!
Lovely video Phil, thanks! Enjoyed that!
excellent stones - great cutting
Awesome job Phil..
Cheers Famo
Hiya Phil, awesome video and both stones came out beautifully.
I hope you have a awesome blessed day mate. Cheers! Cya!
😺🐟 out!
Such beautiful and amazing gems from our planet earth 😊✨️so expertly cut too🤠💥
Nice cutting 😊
Beautiful ❤ just beautiful 🎉
Very nice pieces you did em justice
Both stunning. Very nice!
Always love your videos Phil!
AWESOME VIDEO once again Phil 😂❤
I love watching you turn a "rock" into a GEM..❤😮
It's so refreshing watch you cut.these are stunning gorgeous.thank you for sharing. Have a great Anzac day
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Nice
Thanks!
Thank you kind Sir! 🤪👍
Hey Phil ,i know this doesn't have bugger all to do with this vid,but i just wanted to say thanks for all the info and knowledge you share. The reason is that ive just done my first opal inlay and it worked out well. It wasn't a big piece. I had a coffin pendant i had made from jasper a while ago and I thought id try and inlay a circle of opal into it,so i used an 8 mil diamond core drill to drill the groove and did the same process you used for your inlayed rings as you can imagine the bits were tiny but im quite happy with how it turned out for my first go at it. So I just thought I'd say thanks cause i wouldn't have known where to start if it wasn't for you.cheers mate
G’day mate, that’s awesome to hear, well done, (this comment is the first thing I’ve read this morning, great start to my day), you’re welcome to email me some photos if you’d like, cheers. 🤪👍
Hey Phil, sorry it took so long to reply but I've been out of reception up until today. Thanks for the reply. I'll send you some pics so you can have a look but fair warning I'm extremely green and still learning so try not to laugh lol. Cheers
Love the Andamooka crystal! nice job.
Watching how you strategize has really helped me. Appreciate the insight.
If you can say, would love to know how much a decent Andamooka parcel goes for.
Start at $500/oz on field price. 🤪👍
Hey, mate. I've recently changed tactics. Basically, if there is a sense of problem with the op, it, almost instantly gets cut in half. That way you actually recover more material from 2 stones, usually the 2 stones are the same size as your projected estimate. For one Stone sorry I am using my voice to text. So some of the words are being silly.
Are those shell pieces? Very pretty material
G’day mate, no not shell, it’s seam opal. 🤪👍
Is it possible to make a cab for jeweller's to buy and set in a ring with just a dremel?
G’day mate, yes, I will do a video on it when I get the chance, but for now, check out youtube.com/@carlynscolorfulcreations?si=-RpFyzXPr9iuoBLD she does a pretty good job with a rotary tool. 🤪👍
Can you give a guesstimate of what their worth at the end of the vids please
I don’t usually like to mention $’s on the channel, but for the double sided one retail, I’d put no less than au400/ct, but its already sold it at a wholesale price. 🤪👍
Do you have a email address or some way of contacting you please?? Im a long time fan and would really like some advice and possibly if ur keen a couple of stones i would like set..
Second comment ! When will I BE NUMBER 1 ?
You are already number one in my book .
What do you call a parcel of opal where most of it comes from Andamooka but some pieces don’t and they still look identical to all the others.
You call it Randomooka !
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