How to Carve THIN Color/Colour bars in opal. Final Carving of a Childs Coober Pedy Noodling Finds.
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2024
- Cutting thin color/colour bars in opal can sure be tricky. In this video I'll show the process I use to get the thinnest of color/colour bars to display their best. Basically pull well short of the colour with the sintered burrs, you should only just see them and then polish with novas while remaining a level of caution with the black and brown.
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Timestamps
00:00 The Rough Plan
02:36 240 Grit Sintered
04:48 350 Grit Sintered
06:40 280 Grit Nova
07:29 600 Grit Nova
08:10 1200 Grit Nova
08:58 3000 Grit Nova
09:35 Cerium Oxide and Felt
10:01 Final Piece
13:11 All The Noodling finds
14:31 Giveaway Reminder
Thank you for your tutorials which allow me to understand the methods of cutting and polishing Australian opals that I love very much.
No worries happy to help.
It looks holographic. It's amazing to me all of those were found in the same place yet all look so unique and different from one another. Opals are something absolutely amazing. Great work Roy thanks for the video 👍
It does have a holographic effect, very nice foil red and green. The variety in one pile of discarded opal is quite amazing.
I especially love this one, I would just spend all day sliding it around my table!
Slide it around too much and it'll wear down to nothing 🤣
Was such a thin colour bar. Probably one of the thinnest non boulder opal bars I've worked on.
That kids got an eye for noodling! What a great little collection to start with! I actually like the directionality. Different colors from different angles always amazes me.
Directionality is not bad since we all love play of colour I just wish there wasnt a dull angle. Replace that with a blue or green change as well and it is an absolute winner.
That color change is just amazing.
Yeah take that diamond!
Great Show, Wow that stone is Stunning , the way it changes from Red to Green as you move it away , its like Magic
I used to do a bit of magic and I am certain I could design a trick or to with a stone like this. Hell of a gimmick.
Young fella would have had to been stoked with the end result . Looks awesome.
Yeah and this was probably the worst of the bunch.
That stone is absolutely incredible!!
Thanks Shannon. He was quite surprised with all of them. His mum wouldnt have believed it if there wasnt video proof.
Beautiful!!!
Thanks Andrea.
Amazing stones, opals are so mysterious and fascinating.
You do a great job with the grinding work ....well done mate
They really are. Easily the most fascinating natural stone in my opinion.
Love the video mate thank you for posting
No worries Lazar.
Absolutely beautiful. Thanks
Thanks its quite a nice sunrise stone.
nice work, thanx for showing!!
Thanks for watching. The thin ones can be quite fun.
Beautiful work!
Thanks John. I had to give it a good crack especially when its someone elses rough.
That's what happens to the Eithiopian I've shown you. That's the background color bar bleeding into the red foreground color bar. The lighting changes my stones drastically as you've also seen. People pay good money for what that lucky lad found. What a score!!!! As always you killed it! Great job brother.
Yeah its the wavy colour bar rising up. and just peeking through. He got some good pieces for zero cost. I'd call that good value.
Very cool!
Its always great to nail the ultra thin colour bars but takes a careful hand. Soo worth it.
Beautiful.
Fun challenge this one was. Only occasionally tackle ultra thin bars.
That's was so well done brv ,great to watch 💎
Thanks. Thin bars are tough but not impossible.
Looks great
Yeah this one was stressful but worth it.
This is my first time watching your channel. I really enjoy watching how you use the dremel to achieve such a refined product. I'm subscribed now and hope to see more quality work like this. Thanks.
Welcome and I hope you can get something out of the channel. This is quite an old video so I think you'll find the more recent ones far better in terms of quality.
Lovely little piece.
Yeah it is quite good.
Wow, awesome piece of opal
Not a bad one for free noodling rough found by a child. Kid has a gift 100%.
You did really well with that being wafer thin what a lovely flash of gold.
Yeah I dont think I have ever been so cautious with a bar before. Pulled up well short with the coarse sintered and went from there.
That is absolutely stunning. I really like it. He has turned up some lovely opals.
Yeah I chatted to him and his mum and they might drop off some more pieces for me to play with!
Great finds and excellent polishing.
Tough with the thin bars but always a good challenge.
Definitely an approach slowly kinda stone.
Also the background tunes are a nice touch.
Thanks Brandon. Was probably the most cautious and measured approach I have ever taken on an opal.
Nice work
Thanks Paul.
Wowww 🤩
Thanks Ellen.
That’s a really cool unique gem. Nice job Roy.
Thanks Matt. Always tough to tackle those thin bars. Blink and you'll grind it away LOL
@@RoysRocks yeah just starting out I’ve got one that I’ve been looking at for about a month. Nervous to flatten the dark/black back and face is very thin bar.
@@fshnbuddy2 Hopefully you pull it off and snag a winner!
Mate love it
Always great when you can keep the thinnest hint of opal.
I often do a lot of very thin seam on cp and the colors are amazing ,Thanks Roy .
I'm never a huge fan of the ultra thin stuff it tends to stress me out a bit because the smallest sand has no chance of removal but love when it works out.
Epic 🙌👍🏼
Very epic 🙌
Very nice video and result!
Thin ones are stress but every now and then we get a win.
@@RoysRocks no pain no gain :)
That's what you call magical
It was a stressful piece but glad it worked out.
Very nice
Indeed. Quite happy.
Thanks, I've got so many thin pieces I've yet to work on and seeing the steps you follow is always helpful. Love the color in the piece. My camera always struggles to pick up red hues.
Yeah mine normally struggles with red but this one is so red it didn't have a choice.
Nice job as always Roy, love your videos
Cheers digger
This was a tough one. Glad youtube started showing this one to people as I think there are some good beginner lessons in it.
wow, they turned out beautiful :)
They did. I might go out with them next time to watch the expert sift through a pile of rocks.
@@RoysRocks honestly that would be amazing video as well :)
Wow what a stone man🤩
good job
I remember that one. Was a tough one, One of the thinnest red colour bars I've ever seen.
Beautiful stones. And fantastic polishing by you. Had to hold my breath a few times with the thin flat Opal. Well don buddy. Will be looking you up if or help when I can get across..
I just held my breath the entire time! 🤣
The thin ones are scary especially when directional.
Nice job 👌 this piece would make wonderful losanges or triangles earrings on a bearing.
It it were mine I would think about cutting it in half for a pair of amazing earrings. The colour would really flash with a bit of movement.
Great vid Roy and great finds Iand good luck to Harrison in the future 'd be happy to have paid good money for them , and good to see your channel growing mucca .
Thanks Mark. I hope I have done enough to get him hooked on opal for the next 90 years of his life.
bahaha, "I'm thin as a rake".
Good to see a bunch more people on the channel! already at 1.11K!
Also thanks for the video! I can imagine I'll have some thin pieces coming in from Jullian or hopefully you from that giveaway ;)
That is an incredible stone!!!
UA-cam finally deciding to put the channel out there for other to see. Seems a giveaway helps as well LOL
I like how the scroll bar is bookmarked with which part of the project your doing. So when I wanna scroll back and revisit something it says right on the screen, 280 Nova etc.
I haven't seen one episode yet, that isn't stellar. Thanks for sharing your craft, passion, and information. Mahalo nui loa
Thanks man. Yeah I like the bookmark feature it only takes a few extra minutes to do it and is well worth it!
Really cool! Ron sr
I do enjoy revealing even the thinnest glimmer of a colour bar. Often come out directional and patchy but a good test of carving skill.
Oh my she's a beaut
Yeah not bad for a hair thick colour bar.
Quite an awesome starter collection for a young up and coming rock hound. Be great if you cou get him on and his reaction to the work you’ve done. I’d love to hear his backstory as I hope to hit the Aussie opal mining areas later this year.
I will see what I can do. He is currently battling the adjustment to high school but I'll see when he has time.
I hope I can be so lucky. It's something I would love to find when I do some carving.
A mix of skill, luck and reasonable quality rough.
I'm sure you'll find heaps of good bits. 🤞
All beautiful stones, but this video's focus stone is pretty wonderful.
So stressful to cut the thin bar and I was glad it actually was quite visible on camera.
Greqt skills 👌🏾
Sweaty palms working the ultra thin "bars".
Nar done an amazing job love your videos bro I found tiny pieces of opal on my visit to the Ridge I don't think any cutable stones, would u possible be keen at looking at them and maybe rubbing some? 😀 ❤
Beauty
Thanks Napa
@@RoysRocks welcome bro
Gosh the red and gold are brilliant so far and still more polishing to go
I wonder where this stone has ended up... I cant actually remember.
looks nice 👍🇬🇧🎩
the blue turquoise flash is lush, wild colours, lovely set of stones 👍🇬🇧👍
I have shown the young man and he was quite impressed and that was only a photo. Wait till he sees them in person.
@@RoysRocks aye he’ll be well impressed with them for his collection, great job you have dun on them 👍🎩🇬🇧
@@RoysRocks wikid man, my first parcel has arrived, the nobby looks interesting, & thas some seam with nice flash’s in the seam. 👍🇬🇧🎩
@@M44411 Nice flashes is always a plus. Chase that colour my friend.
Thanks for teaching by dremmel. Would you work boulder opal on a wheel.....nice informative video ;] cool opal
Boulder can be worked on wheels for sure. Once I can get the space I'll get wheels. I might even be able to film while borrowing someone else's.
I wonder if you tried cutting through the red if the pitch would disappear and you’d have a full green blue stone? Mind you the colour is stunning, great job on all the stones Roy
I did want to go deeper and test it but it was such an interesting pattern and behaviour in this bar so it wasnt really worth the risk. Especially on someone elses opal.
That’s insane how it changes. Natures mood gem by chance?
Its certainly a strange one with the colour change.
Mood gem, more like moody gem when it doesnt want to cooperate. 😂
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That's the beauty of opal's play/change of colours depends on source of light. So magical!
Really is one of those magic stones. ✨
Man I want to be doing some noodling there LOL such an amazing piece do you get to keep these pieces or do you have to give them back to him LOL
He will be getting all of these in a nice little display box. Try to get him hooked on opal young.
They may be giving me more pieces to work on so I'm keen for that.
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Look at the blue coming through
Its one of those colour changing directional stones. Not worth a lot but pretty fun to play with.
Where do you buy your Dremel bits? I have looked for some and I have not found any. I have these metal diamond bits I bought from China years ago, but I could not say what grit they are and afraid to to use them because they might be too rough? Can you point me in the right direction?
If they are really rough feeling they are typically 80-150 grit. I get mine manufactured in china and sell them on the website www.roysrocks.com
What is the nova? Is it a polishing tip or sort of sandpaper. I got a parkside rotary tool but no name like nova comes up in the pieces
It is a resin polishing burr. Exactly like the sintered diamond but instead of diamonds in metal it is diamonds in resin.
They are made by Diamond Pacific.
I know the value of the thick little chunk is more valuable, because it's not directional at all. But personally, I think the flat one is the nicest one in the bunch.
At the right angle the directional ones can be quite good so I see where you are coming from.
Where do you get your bits from and what rpm do you work at?
I get sintered burrs manufactured in China and Nova points from Suva lapidary in the USA. I run at about 8000rpm unloaded.
Hate to be an armchair cutter here but I would have gone a bit deeper on this one, based on that bar I think there was more interesting color underneath.
Deeper?! It was pretty much gone by the end of this. Just potch if it was touched by the novas again.
Hi Roy, this was a great vid. I'm fairly new to Opal cutting and even newer to UA-cam. I also use a Dremel tool. So all you vids have been great for my learning journey. Thanks for sharing. Kerry. Check us out sometime 😉
Hi Kerry I'll check out the channel after work or while I'm having lunch. 👍
If harrison wants I'll give him 200aud for the 5 pieces
Speaking to the fam I think they will be holding on to them and making the best one a ring.