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Ive never been that into opal but I discovered the joy of it this week when I shaped and polished a few bits of rough I had in my Dads box. Its wonderful stuff to work by hand.
Very hard to photograph.
The free form shapes pretty much maximised what I could get out of what I had and the colours out in the sun are amazing.
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I saw the new ad for the Opal show featuring our Member Rodney last night. :eek: ... Looks pretty good. :Y: ..
I have a mate who has a mine out at LR and he was approached about being on the show, but he Declined their offer... :(

LW...
 
Thanks LW. Was my first go at Opal and yes that iron stone makes some nice red mud. Did it all on the diamond plates Ive been using with a worn out piece of 1200 wet n dry to polish them. Im pretty happy with how they turned out but now I have track down some more material to work with.
 
Been away from the machine for a while, needed to get some urgent renovations done as our daughter was spending a month with us while doing her last practice session to complete her nursing degree. That's out of the way now as are Channel 7, who've filming at the building I manage for the last 8 weeks. Damned out of control juggernaut and causing me no end of grief :mad: for no financial reward to the Body Corp only problems :argh:

So had a relaxing weekend on a nice little Garnet for a client, ended up with a 2ct stone which really catches the fire in the right light.

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I think I might cut something really special next, been waiting to start this one for a while:

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This is one end of the rough, the other is even bigger and will come later.

At 24.25ct the stone has been cleaned of all inclusions and has had a basic preform, think it's going to be pretty special though will end up a bit dark as it has a green cross table ;)

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