"I started making what everybody wanted...opal arrowheads" One of the best lines ever spoken

Gorgeous!! The setting is beautiful, I love the peek a boo setting,...just as beautiful as the front....paused the finished work, can't stop looking at it! Completely enjoyed your story telling, thank you!

You are not just an opalholic, you’re a legend in your own right

It is indeed an awesome piece. Thanks for sharing the trials and tribulations of opals with us.. I'm just happy it is as big as it is. Well done sir, i say well done! Keep the crazy goodness coming. Be happy, safe and stay healthy and no cracking.🤗 😷⚒

Wonderful and humorous with a personal touch and jaw-dropping beautiful OPALS! WELL DONE!!! Thank you!

lol you're sense of humor is on point good sir.

What a beautiful opal! You did a great job cutting it. P.S. I really like your sense of humor.

That last piece is gorgeous! Thank you for consulting an expert before cutting. From one opalholic to another!

That last opal is so amazing! Thanks for sharing your experiences, know how, route there etc! :)

Wow, you're so talented good sir! Thanks for taking the time to film this & letting us watch!

" i can quit anytime i want" thats an addicts famous saying. But all humar aside great work you do and such a great watch to see. Love it. Ive been wanting to get into opal for several several years now and need to just do it...

"Hmmm, I'm rich, bored, sick of Sheila faking it, I think I'll do opals and comedy": success! I love your channel! I learn so much, thank you opal master, for sharing, teaching and entertaining us all!! Fabulous!!!

Beautiful! I've always had an obsession to opal and its color shifting. I never knew I needed an opal arrowhead until now! Have a small collection of sentimental arrowheads. Wish I could find the ones I personally found as a child. Sadly they have been lost over the years and always remembered as "the one that got away" lol

Absolutely amazing! Such a gorgeous piece and your skill definitely shows. Love your narration and sense of humor. So glad that YT recommended your videos. :)

My mouth is agape. Thanks to your beautiful work I have started buying opal rough almost addictively and I don't even have a cabbing machine yet. I was very excited to see a new video and as usual you did not disappoint!

All your work is beautiful...all the colors remind me of the Hubble photos if the stars and galaxies I have seen in the past...very wondrous and heavenly...I would recommend your work on custom originals.

At 4:00 I noticed your exclamation point done up in the lower right. Lol. I do that with my simple garden rocks all the time. Thank you for your videos.

Loved the arrowheads...and that *shield* is utterly fabulous❣🥰👍🏻

Just discovered your channel. I have always loved opals, and the pendant you created is stunning! I can still remember a huge opal I tried on (in the 1970s) in New York City. It was an amazing experience to wear that piece for a few minutes. I think it was around $9,000 then. I'm sure it would be worth far more now. There is a magic in the color and "fire" in these stones. Thank you for sharing the process of selection of stones, and how to cut them. The preparation is far more time-consuming and challenging than most people would realize. Appreciate your humor too. I'm sure it's a challenge being an "opalholic." lol Best wishes for your continued success with opals, Dianna

Beautiful! I’m still chipping away at the flint. Had a friend heat treat some of the last I got at Nether’s and it’s very cool. Thanks again!

I've only just got into gemstones and you're making me feel like I have wasted a great deal of my life doing other stuff when I could have been working as your understudy. Man, you are not just good at what you do, you are simply inimitable ! Lots of love and respect from me!!

I stumbled across this video and sat here mesmerized watching you make this pendant. I just wish I had the faintest idea of what you're talking about so I could fully appreciate you finding the perfect stone for the piece. Honestly, all of your rocks looked pretty much the same to me. But I can tell it takes a lot skill to make these, and the finished product looked amazing. Thank you for sharing this.

Ur narration is the best! Crack me up and the stones are amazing and incredibly beautiful

You are so funny 😂 before finding yoyr channel, I didn't have much of an opinion on opal and if asked, I would've said it wasn't something I liked all that much. Now, not only do I like you but I also like opal. I've just started researching engagement rings this week to pop the question and lucky thing my girlfriend's favorite stone is opal so I'll be designing her an opal ring. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and passions with the world through KZfaq!

Stunning end result but I loved all 4 specimens as well. I’m blessed I’ve seen opal in a mine in Coober Pedy when I was 17. Been obsessed with the stunning stone ever since. Your humour absolutely makes these videos my friend. I chuckle all the way through them. Thanks for the laughs 👍🏽

That was really cool and excellently put together. Very well done mate!!

MAN!! I GOTTA SAY! that is the most beautiful cut opal , fit for a queen!!!!!!!!!!! great job man!!

A stunner hands down! Thank you for sharing

What a fun video! Love your passion for opal and appreciate your humour too!

I recently found your KZfaq channel and I love everything about you!! I can listen to you speak and watch your videos all day!! 💖 keep up the great work 💕

Thank you for making me addicted to Opal and great humor. I was in Rotterdam last weekend, but found no nice Opals like yours. Maybe because I swam too quickly in the river Maas ;-)

Well your a good man for your kindness in sharing you joy with us. Thank you.

Rewatching this is such a great thing to do on Thanksgiving. Your arrowheads are the best on KZfaq

Your best video I've seen. Your talent is unquestionable. Your humor however, is right on time. Thank you sir, for these videos and for the time you put into them.

Great Video Donald and beautiful stone and story. You can add comedy to your list of talents!

What a ripping story! Made my morning. I'm not a fan of diamonds but that opal is incredible. You did good.

lol I love your sense of humor!!! Matrix opal is beautiful!!!

Your channel is very wholesome and learning from you about opals is very interesting. 😊

Love it and thanks for sharing it with us!!!! Thumbs Up & Enjoyed!!

Opals bring such a strong emotional response in,me that i feel like crying watching this,video. Thank you, so, so much.

I like your sense of humor! I loveeee watching you work with different Opals! Please make more videos soon! I just discovered you today!

Opal is my daughter’s birthstone. I have always loved Opal. I had a nice opal ring years ago and it shattered. I was so sad about that and never got another one. Some day... thank you for sharing! So beautiful! 👍🥰. I think this would be so much fun and very rewarding. I too would be an opal addict. 😄

Oh man that was such a great watch buddy. Very funny, and just genuinely entertaining. Beautiful stunning and elegant my friend. Thank you for the work you do to share this with us. 🙏

I wish you could teach me the ins and outs of opal buying and cutting. I love opals for some reason but I'm stuck with cutting and polishing common opals.

I can't believe I just found your channel.i love opal and digging some out of the ground myself is on my bucket list.

You are actually so cool :D The cabochons are gorgeous... and i never seen an opal arrowhead before as most wouldnt do it :)

I really enjoyed this one but I really enjoyed all of them, that's why I was watching them again when you responded to my comment on another one of your videos about an hour ago. Keep up the good work and good jokes, we appreciate it all very much, thanks.

Like watching an aquarium. Thanks so much for your videos!! 😍

I enjoy so much looking all of your videos! THANK YOU!

As a complete newbie who just randomly stumbled upon a couple of your videos: Is using modern lighting techniques, like small LEDs inside a piece of jewelery, to light up the gemstone accepted?

I love you’re videos you’ve educated me so much I’m thankful for you’re time

Wow ..absolutely beautiful!!!!

Your work is so beautiful...I'm stuck in bed with 3 ruptured...broken tail bone (3 places)...8 broken upper teeth...spider fractured upper and lower job...pinched off siatic nerve and ham string(left side) etc...I'm stuck in bed for at least another year....no jems for me .... but man is your opal and gold work ..... beautiful!

Beautiful! Wow! You're a real artist!

Woooooo... I just reached the end... THAT'S FLIPPIN' BEAUTIFUL!

I like the rocks. I like your humour. I am now subscribing. Thumbs up sir.

Too funny. Thank you for being so entertaining.

You do some beautiful work.

Your sense of humor makes me happy.

Very nice, thanks again for sharing your work.

Lmao, “what do people want in life?” Opal arrow heads

Nice stone and very clever name dropping!! Love your work.

I love your videos! I’ve learned so much from you. God bless

Excellent work. Thanks so much for sharing. CHEERS!

Love the whole video!!!! Lol I think I'm a opalholic now too. See what you did ! Loved your story love your opals!!

I came across your videos at 4a.m...I am a mineral lover, arrowhead finder/collector. In my opinion they are pratically one and the same. Anyway I love your humor and subject matter. You have a new subscriber!

your channel is great! really love your work!

Good job, good materials and very nice products, I like it.

My aunt opal wants an arrow head. Man I just hear your voice and a smile pops up , thanks for making me laugh.

Just stumbled across your channel. Very impressive work. I'm hoping to get into cabbing, soon. Maybe, when I get good enough, I'll try out opals. Love it! :D

Love that last piece.

It doesn't matter who the lucky customer is..That stone is fit for a queen indeed..Thanks for the laughs and wows..

Before you made the second cut I saw a beautiful elongated tear drop! Ok back to the video.

Thanks for the memory Don. She was a troublesome child but after she revealed her true face, you coerced her into her flower, as surely as "Henry Higgins". 😋 michael ferguson

Beautiful. Thanks

Beautiful! All of it

Great work! Beautiful

That is just stunning

Beautiful opal, and excellent workmanship on it! On naming the opal, what of naming it the Celestial Shield?

Awesome video man!! Sincere compliments to you!! Subscription confirmed!! And lol ... I sure hope that the wonderful creation of yours went to the fabulous Ms. Goldie Hawn and daughter!! Also Mr. Opal, do you recommend a 'site' at which one can view, consider, and purchase rough opal?

Soooo beautiful! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

49.2 K Friday Feb 11th, 2022. Don you came a long way! Congratulations !

Looked like an acorn to me. Beautiful stone and you did an excellent job with it

That’s a piece of Opal I’m sure many people would dream of having!

Thanks for sharing.. beautiful ❤️ opals! Bonnie

Love them arrowheads !!!

Don't know if I can finish watching this without going out to my shop and working on some of my own opal cabs!😂

I laughed so hard at this. Thank you for sharing

Oh goodness...this is the first we watched of you and you bad us roaring!

Wow that's great you are an opa holic to I'm just realizing I am too. That's so awesome that you said that because really I can't stop wanting that to be over my whole body. It's such a pretty Stone and the Earth and elements minerals that are in it our divine

I'd love for you to make a flint knapping video. My cousin was really good at that as well.

I'd love to try my hand at opal cutting and polishing when I retire,in about 5 years.Roughly how much money are we talking for all the equipment that I'd need?

Love the video really love the Opal!

I really enjoy your content, I'm definitely subbing.

I love watching you. Your to cool and do beautiful work !

The rainbow shield is worthy of a queen. Super outline.

Donald I showed this video to my 86 year old mom and she really got laughing so much at you jokes like I did. For perspective from video what size were the beautiful diamonds in setting. I love the work even the work on the bottom of the stone with your initials is beautiful.

You're a hoot, very enjoyable vids

"I am an Opal holic......." That's so good to hear. I thought I was the only one.

You are my favorite opal cutter