LIVE uncut rough opals - we cut together
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- Опубліковано 2 кві 2023
- Join us LIVE for another session of roughing out. The mystery never gets old. Watch new gems birthed before your eyes. And see some failures too!
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Just had a proper intense 14 hours rescuing my PC and data. Just collapsed into bed and found the perfect antidote to all that concentration and effort. Justin's concentration and effort. Perfect way to unwind.
Hope your fix works.
@@mousiebrown1747 It certainly did...like hot chocolate for the soul.
Watching you cut opals in fascinating. Never boring and the opals are beautiful.
I watched the aussie opal hunters spin off earlier today in England...It showed a collection of opals worth around 33 million dollars... Some really amazing stones...But I couldn't help thinking that if you had polished and shaped them ,then they would have been worth a whole lot more than that...
And they all be round
It is amazing watching how fast you fly through those Opals. You make it look so easy. Such lovely stones.
Justin, that little gem crystal at the 25 mark was a CRACKA! I saw every color of the rainbow in that one. Thank you so much for sharing these magical stones with us. I never knew stuff like this would interest me, and now, thanks to you, I guarantee I'd score an A if someone gave me a test on opal.
You should make a video about greasing your bearing, but do it Gold Rush style where you exclaim that it could ruin your entire year, then you play intense music while you take it apart. And then you can tell us how much opal you lost at the end from having your wheel down and how much more you'll make now that it's back up.
Hahaha you don't know how much truth is in that
Hey from BC Canada love your channel... been Google,-ing you and opals like mad since I came across your channel.... good on ya mate
YES!!! The last live with the Pea nobbies was awesome. It made me smile when you said you would like some feedback from the people that bought those rough parcels. You are excited for them and that makes you an AWESOME human. I don't care how long your show is...the longer the better. Black Opal Direct is always the first notification I open. LOVE YOU ALL
I really needed to chill out, and un-frazzle my brain... oh look, Justin's going to cut some Opals for me. Thanks Justin!
I love those floating blue blobs! I would want them in a crystal opal if I could ever have one...which at my age I don't see happening! lol. I know you wouldn't ever sell an imperfect gem, but I would buy one if it was as pretty as the first stone you cut! I loved, loved that last parcel live cut! wow! That eye was impressive! That should be a ring for you Justin. Keep an eye on you! lol. Dark opals are probably my least fav. I hope to see this batch polished up soon. That 2nd one you did seemed to have a bit of cloud on one side, but I loved the colors in it. Why on earth would you facet an opal? As a rock hound at heart, I think I would have loved to been an opal cutter. Or even a gem cutter. Be more pleasant than the nursing field! lol Retired now, but I've nothing left healthwise to do much but watch others do fun things now. so thank you Justin for making my night! I have not been well lately, so I have been able to watch several shows I missed...including tonight's live. I still talk to you even when I can't comment! lol xo to all!
Gday mate , I hope you are having a awesome day over there in sunny Queensland 🦘
I want to let you know how much I we really enjoy your videos...exceptional work Justin ...thank you for sharing !!! WHOO HOOO FROM CALIFORNIA JOHHNY AND CANDY !! WHAT !!!!!
Gorgeous pieces as always.
one day... one day! I will be awake in time to watch the stream live..
lots of lovelies today
Have been watching for a long time
Finally decided to comment
Enjoy you guys. Ty for the entertainment
Hendrik, from Caroline, Alberta,. Canada
Justin Philly boy here Ryan just letting you know I love you and you're the best you're an inspiration to me I envy you and I look up to you
Some very cool stones .
Yucaipa California
the gems speak volumes !!!!
I love how you explain things.
Love the crystal opals, and two good sides are for sure twice the goodness! 👋💎❤️👍 Greetings to you all at BOD!
Some very beautiful colors
Love that one with the red
Love opals. New Brunswick canada
Watching from Zimbabwe, regards marty James
Wasilla Alaska! I come from a mining family.
Amazing video! Thank you Justin! Huge inspiration with my cutting
,Can you recommend an instrument that can test a variety of stones to see if they are fake or not,Great show as usual,keep it up.
Hearty Greetings from Owen Sound, Georgian Bay, Ontario! YOu two are the bomb! Always enjoy catching your podcasts. Looking forward to today's viewing. Best wishes from MQH! :-)
Hello from Wisconsin, USA.
Some of the "beaten by sand" pieces have glorious color. I'm wondering if these could be sold by another business. Granddaughter LOVES opal; small "imperfect" pieces can be painted with gold leaf on the sandy spots, etc., for very cool but less costly jewelry. This could be a small business for an opal cutter who is learning the craft.
Beautiful. Thank you, Justin.
My horror, people who facet opals have a special place in Opal hell, it's like when you're sitting there enjoying your tea listening to your favorite track and then someone starts listening to something else on the phone next to you, it's like body-painting over tattoos.
Thank you Justin and Tamika.
Some great stones in there, some amazing colours
Thank you 👍👍👍👍
You definitely teased out all the color you could get out of those stone and some of the color was amazing. Thank you for sharing your amazing talent. The noise sounds like loose wheels. Try tightening the big nut on the end of the shaft. I hope that will fix it.😷⚒
@11:30 that is stunning!!!!!!!!
Love you guys awesome show I'm from st george utah.
Justin, love how you are like a kid in a candy shop cutting beautiful opals with such ease and delight.
Is Tameka really leaving?
If true she will be missed…
Tamika is going anywhere. Haha. She loves working here
I like the opal in raw form
Cutting a good vein of color out of Jadeite is very similar to cutting a color bar in Opal. Another stone where you can face the same challenges as Opal is Mexican Fire Agate. Just my 2 cents, Opal Ole
This F. Earther continues to discover new skills, Opal cutting is one.
Hope you go back to midnight, so we in the EU can watch the shows too...
Yea !
Couldn't you make a few smaller stones from the last one? Seems like a shame not to try.
Hi Justin, it would be nice to see the process of going from raw nobby to set a gem in a finished piece 🙂 Love your work
Go the Dragon's eye
Kansas shouting howdy y'all...
Hey Justin👍
Few questions:
Why is it called cutting when you’re grinding/sanding the stones?
Why is it that 3000 grid businesses sell less? (I found that an interesting comment and the way you said it)
What is the most valuable stone you ever found?? (Not one that you saw beforehand that it was gonna be valuable and payed for it, but a relatively cheap stone that turned out to be an amazingly valuable stone)
- ivo from the Netherlands, whos living in Northern Sweden, but Oz will always be nr1 for him, so if you ever hire let me know, i might move😂 and the fishing would be one of the top 5 reasons of doing so
I know you usually only cut opal. But I think you’d be able to cut some nice sea glass 😊
Missed the live again ! 😕
Beautiful daughter 🥰
Hello Justin , seeing some of your stones today , considering if the colors and patterns the “ same “ which would be worth more ? A free form shape or the cabochon shape that most opals end up being ? I hope I got my point across as when I proofed the question something didn’t look right with the way I phrased it .
Hello good day to you. I’m a big fan of your channel sir and I have a question about a opal and you’re the one who has the expertise in opal particularly Australian opals It’s a rather large Rollstone I was told it was a blue sky opal from an area in so the interior of Australia is there a way I can send the photo to you do you look at how would I go about best polishing or shaping the stone I’m gonna do it myself I’ve been watching your videos and I have all ready done an egg with a white opal from Honduras thank you so much I love your videos and your expertise is always in valuable in this
How much are they going for in us dollars. Im in orla tx
I don't know yet until I cut nice clean gems and value them
My favorite color is yellow 😅
Alabama
Massachusetts
Will you be getting any more pea knobby parcels again like those from the last video? From the same mine/area?
Shoot some PB blaster or WD40 on the bearing might help quite it down some
100% agree, don't facet opal!
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You need to make a Thanos Gauntlet 😂😂😂
Bognor regis england x
My favorite show your awesome from utah
How would I buy one of your gems?
The little one at 24 minutes I really really like.
Great Britain.
How often do you clean your wheels?
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The blue green one with sand in it could be an angle in sand didn't quite get the view... maybe not
Oklahoma
at 32:10 can that become a heart?
i dont do vegas
i just live here
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i love your neon sign
Way too late for me...
What's funny is I think they call that catfish noodling the same thing you guys do Noodle and opals
Hey you shaved already what happened
Baby didn't like it that's probably what it was huh whisker Burns