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um this week we're working on a little knobby that I bought about a month ago it was 500 and
i'm hoping that we can cut something better than 500 out of it so that's my challenge today it's an
interesting knobby it has all of the features of a good quality knobby and it has a nice black pouch
on the back but if you look closely you can see that color bar the color bar is quite thin and
I can't really tell when i put the flashlight through it
i can see light going through it but there is one dark spot so that i think is either potch
or sand so that could ruin me um or it could just be dipping down so i don't know
for sure until we get into it and that's opal you know that's the way it is anyway let's get
on the wheel and let's start studying this piece and see if we can get a gem
let's have a good look at this guy so it looks like a pretty weak color from
what i can see here which is not really great you know
it's got a little bit of green showing up there and there is some color around this side but i
don't know i think i have a hunch that it might just go a bit brighter inside and I'm hoping
for that so let's get this machine going have a little bit of a lookie see inside the water on
i'm just gonna touch it around the edges just a little bit
you can see here that the potch has started to go black there already so whether that
potch actually touches the color is another question but you never know till we get into it
hmm it's a very thin bar very thin bar some nice healthy potch there though
so i hope i have my 500 was well spent the color bar being so thin
has made me realize that i'm taking a bigger risk than i first thought
so that sand spot on the top is making its way down protruding into the color
you can see right there it goes down into there and right onto close to the color bar
so realistically the best thing i can do right now is just take its top off
that makes me laugh every time all right
well guys you can see that color is looking pretty good there so i think it's time and i'm going in
oh it's got black potch on the top too only a little patch
so that might be what we're showing up in the light oh wow look at that big
that big blob of sand right there sanding inclusions are the biggest killers in opal
and i don't know if this one's going to come clean that could be a downfall for us
my goal though is to get past that
oh so we're being teased by beautiful color sitting there
but i don't know if that watch is actually going to come out
oh it just started looking like it might it might come out it might come out it might
come on come on show me show me how it's done there's a tiny little opening in the pot
it's just telling me that i might have a beautiful gym so close so close
yes so looks like we have a really nice stone sitting here
um there is a sand spot there that i don't know what's going to happen with it i just
need to work on it a little bit further but we might lose that part of the stone
sand spot sort of is coming out no it's not it's hit the bottom okay
just hit the bottom
so uh i think we got a nice gem sitting here so i might just bring it into
where the nice color is take a little bit off that back
i actually think we might have a bit of profit coming along so this could be good
edges in ever so slightly where the so the reason why i'm taking those edges in you can see those
chips and natural bits of rough there that need to it needs to come right in pretty much to there so
let's have a little bit of a look-see
it's not a big stone this week but uh she might pack a fair bit of punch which could be good
all right now i'll just roll that edge a little bit oh that color that color is beautiful
this time all of the risk has turned into reward and i don't know about you but all
of my muscles in my body are starting to relax again because i can see a top gem
that's a nice stone
that's a truly nice stone i don't know if you can feel the honest pressure that i feel
when i'm cutting a stone like this i'd love to know if you're feeling it too let
me know in the comments still reminisce remnants there of if i can get it out
should come out before i hit the bottom yep there we go
wow now that is beautiful let's have a closer look all right well that turned out really well
that ended up being 3.20 carats as it is and when we get a close-up look at that color
you'll find this it's actually a really really pretty stone so i'm very very happy with that
and there's one sand spot in it which we need to get out but i think
i can get that out on the dot stick so let's get cutting
it may look like i'm gambling with my money but in actual fact i'm using an educated guess
from previous experiences so my risk is a very different type of gambling it's far different from
throwing your money into a poker machine with very little odds but if you're willing to take the risk
without any experience you will be throwing money into a poker machine so to speak
it's a great time for the lawnmower man next door to start mowing
there we go we're ready to rock and roll beautiful let's get cutting
if you really want to learn to cut opal i have to say take baby steps start small start with a
piece of potch once you get some confidence up move to some color if you don't have the funds
to buy big machinery you can do it by hand i have a video on my channel showing you how to do it
it's quite a fun hobby that you can do in your spare time
so
do
so very very happy with that stone what a beautiful little gem the most unique colors
in this stone it's fantastic oh gee my glasses are dirty um the beautiful gem seriously has got blue
green yellow and red in it i can't believe how many colors it actually showed up
so um but i did have to leave one tiny inclusion in there one end just started to get a little bit
thin on the color bar and so it's very hard to see it but there is actually one small tiny tiny weeny
inclusion it's actually so small you'd have to use a loop to see it properly so what does she weigh
2.58 carats 2.58 carats that's way bigger than i expected that was that was about
probably a carrot bigger than i expected so pretty happy about that let me get the calculator
2.58 times
it's got to be two grand a carrot
that's a five thousand dollar gem pretty excited about that wow i got five hundred
dollars into five thousand dollars and that's pretty special so um yep very happy very happy
oh boy oh boy well this one was an absolute cracker i love this color this is just beautiful
and it's quite unique and um appreciate you guys watching again if you're new here please don't
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