Colin&Lee
Colin&Lee
Bit of opal action, I started these yesterday still need a bit of minor shaping before a polish.
Enjoy
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Col
Enjoy
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Col
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Peter
Col I think I need to send you some stones! Nice
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Nice Col. I ve had a dabble with opals as well, they are very soft and fragile when polishing, too much heat will see the stone end up with fractures. One more slight grind can see the colour disappear.
Beautiful stones you have there!
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Beautiful stones you have there!
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Colin&Lee
Colin&Lee
@Twapster Send em over mate will add them to the pile 
@Richo Looking to do a Faceting course in October can't wait have a few bombs to cut
@ Retirement stone mate your not wrong about it being soft, it's heart breaking stuff to cut, you think your onto a winner and like you said, one last grind and F$%*^&%$#%%*& 8.(. The triangle blue has a very very thin colour line not sure how it's going to turn out.
I bought a few parcels of rough so have a few more to cut will put more pics up as we go
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Col
@Richo Looking to do a Faceting course in October can't wait have a few bombs to cut
@ Retirement stone mate your not wrong about it being soft, it's heart breaking stuff to cut, you think your onto a winner and like you said, one last grind and F$%*^&%$#%%*&
8.(. The triangle blue has a very very thin colour line not sure how it's going to turn out.I bought a few parcels of rough so have a few more to cut will put more pics up as we go
Cheers
Col
Sodabowski
Thomas Rodriguez
I love it how you start with a picture of a tiny one, then switch to a big one. Super work Colin.
Nice work Col, looking goooood!
Just sent my first parcel off to Lamberts, gonna be a lot of rejects but hopefully a few nice Sapphs, all the Zircs I sent should cut though.
Just sent my first parcel off to Lamberts, gonna be a lot of rejects but hopefully a few nice Sapphs, all the Zircs I sent should cut though.
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Thomas Rodriguez
WOWzer mate!
Yeah wow, very nice.
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Thomas Rodriguez
Although with what seems to be quite a bulky shape I'd expected more than a 30% yield. I'm guessing SRB design?
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Great colour, very nice.
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Peter
That's a nice one!
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Orange zircon (pinkish-orange in artificial light) from Reward the other week - approx 7 carats....
Returned a 3-carat oval brilliant....
This blue sapphire from Sapphire/Rubyvale cut two stones, an oval brilliant at 8 carats and this small round just under a carat. Don't have photos of the big one, it belongs to dad and the lighting was poor when I was there.
Returned a 3-carat oval brilliant....
This blue sapphire from Sapphire/Rubyvale cut two stones, an oval brilliant at 8 carats and this small round just under a carat. Don't have photos of the big one, it belongs to dad and the lighting was poor when I was there.
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Nice stones... Did you cut them yourself?...looks like a few facets there that shouldn't be...Lefty said:
but dosnt matter as long as owner is happy..
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On the left , lefty... In between the star facets and girdle facets , the has been an error . Basically cut the corners of the top of the meet point . Common index error , I would not be able to leave that there though. Would also make stone smaller to correct. Mind If I ask what you payed to get cut?Lefty said:
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Not sure KS, dad paid for them.
I think I see what you mean - the triangular facets that come directly off the table....these are called the table stars, is that correct? I see that they form a perfect triangle that meets the tip of the next facet down...except that the two on the left do not.
I'll examine them under the loupes later on.
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I think I see what you mean - the triangular facets that come directly off the table....these are called the table stars, is that correct? I see that they form a perfect triangle that meets the tip of the next facet down...except that the two on the left do not.
I'll examine them under the loupes later on.
Cheers
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