⭐ Show Us Your Cut Stones - Before And After Photos

Some lovely garnet parcel ive been cutting recent , about 1.5 to 2.5 carat .

they are awesome looking great job, how long would it take to cut one of them?

do you know how much opal is as i have no idea, uncut the way it comes out of the ground.

Thanks numpty
I cut quite a lot, but if I have already a doped stone- cut and polished about 10 to 15 - minutes - depending off course on the shape.
Carving much longer some I have worked on for days.
As you can imagine the price can differ quite a bit - depending on the quality of the opal, colours, its size, what gem-field it's from and so on.
Rough boulder opal can be anything from a dollar or two (even less) to a couple of thousand dollars for a good stone.
Though the best rough opals I usually sell in parcels only.

thanks for ya reply Stan, wow those are lovely!

keep them coming mate love them

This one is more a collector stone than something for jewellery.
It has been described to me as "sunstone in aquamarine" (if anyone can confirm? - it polished well with cerium).
It is full of inclusions, which make its beauty, but you need a loupe to see it!

It has a few cracks, I'm glad it didn't break while cutting or polishing.

And the view of the pavilion:

Hey buddy, my best bet: ilmenite and hematite, rather frequent in beryl .

Citrine from O'briens creek.

I re-cut the very first stone I ever attempted. Rugua design. Shame the stone has a big bubble 'veil' inside it.

Nice sharp meets, do you have a face-up picture too?

Sodabowski said:

Nice sharp meets, do you have a face-up picture too?

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I haven't been able to capture a good face up image yet. My nikkon captures the veil inclusions so well it crowds out the facet design. Yet, when viewed with the naked eye the inclusions are barely visible. The iphone takes a really good face up photo which is more in-line with what the eye is seeing but I don't have a cable to load the pictures up yet.

A piece of Mintabie opal I had a muck around with last night . It has an annoying potch line in it, I figure once it's set you wont be able to see it .

Cheers

Col

Not a big line though. Are you going to wire-wrap it?

Hi Soda,

Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet Don't really like wire wrapping, I'd probably put it in a simple gold bezel setting if I was going to do anything with it.

I have put up a pic of a gemmy little piece I did this morning The camera seems to be playing funny buggers at the moment apologies for the image quality.







Cheers

Col

Wow Colin the focus may be tough to get working properly but the color is there! Not fond of WW too myself, nor the missus Lemme see if I can snap a shot of the latest black matrix I'm working on

Bit of potchy Aussie black goodness. Not really sure what to do with it as far as shape goes :/

Any ideas?

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Nice opal!
Regarding the shape, I would just keep the general outline and smooth the edges, it is OK with an opal not to have a standard shape.

Trillions , last iPhone photo , new macro setup next week

Wow Ks, I love your work man ,... I can't say much more than, "just beautiful".