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⭐ Show Us Your Cut Stones - Before And After Photos
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<blockquote data-quote="Sodabowski" data-source="post: 68785" data-attributes="member: 2712"><p>Guys, you have me giggle like crazy. Tripz, your stones are WOWzers. Peter, what a find!</p><p>I'll enter the show too, but with less ambitious stuff: here are some of the Aussie opals that I cut a few years ago:</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/2712/1396228433_img_63049.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>left: black opal (can't remember the locality... was that Queensland? I didn't catalog my stones at the time, now I have a homemade software just for that purpose)</p><p>right: Coober Peddy material, notice the curved one, probably an opalized belemnite I'd say.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/2712/1396228456_img_63050.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Also Coober Peddy material here, the blue one at the bottom is a doublet, I backed it with some of the black opal matrix to make it pop, and boy does it pop...</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/2712/1396228480_img_63051.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>And these two small ones are Boulder Matrix, from the first chuck I bought years ago. Since then I got myself several good chunks from a well-known Boulder Matrix seller and have way bigger ones in my cutting tray <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Now to get my hands onto some Aussie saphs, zircs and spinels! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sodabowski, post: 68785, member: 2712"] Guys, you have me giggle like crazy. Tripz, your stones are WOWzers. Peter, what a find! I'll enter the show too, but with less ambitious stuff: here are some of the Aussie opals that I cut a few years ago: [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/2712/1396228433_img_63049.jpg[/img] left: black opal (can't remember the locality... was that Queensland? I didn't catalog my stones at the time, now I have a homemade software just for that purpose) right: Coober Peddy material, notice the curved one, probably an opalized belemnite I'd say. [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/2712/1396228456_img_63050.jpg[/img] Also Coober Peddy material here, the blue one at the bottom is a doublet, I backed it with some of the black opal matrix to make it pop, and boy does it pop... [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/2712/1396228480_img_63051.jpg[/img] And these two small ones are Boulder Matrix, from the first chuck I bought years ago. Since then I got myself several good chunks from a well-known Boulder Matrix seller and have way bigger ones in my cutting tray ;) Now to get my hands onto some Aussie saphs, zircs and spinels! :D [/QUOTE]
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