What To Look For In Rough Opal? Buy Opal Online? Stream Highlights.

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What To Look For In Rough Opal? Buy Opal Online?
Lets all look through some rough opal scraps for some good little gems.
Mix of Lightning Ridge, Coober Pedy, Andamooka and Mintabie opal.
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Timestamps
00:00 Rough Opal
01:35 What To Do With Opal Chips?
02:40 Cutter Rejects Can Be Good Carvers
05:00 Lightning Ridge
09:19 Measuring Fingers
11:31 Coober Pedy
13:33 Boulder Opal
16:23 Big Risky
19:13 Crystal Opal
21:57 Doublet Backing Welding Glass
22:50 Lightning Ridge Nobby
23:58 Best Beginner Opal
24:41 Where To Buy Opal Online?
27:12 Gem Shell Fragment
29:21 Final Pile Of Findings
30:14 Goodbye

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@timothydawson3836 Жыл бұрын

A lot of those will be good to do a mosaic picture with

@RoysRocks Жыл бұрын

Yeah I have a few projects in mind. One that has failed a few times but I keep trying. The failures will be really useful when I get it working and share it in a video.

@ThatOpalGuy Жыл бұрын

this was a great live. I cannot believe the time went by so quickly.

@RoysRocks Жыл бұрын

And I made it to see my parents in time afterwards! Only just made it on time.

@bhutjolokia6990 Жыл бұрын

Sorry I missed the live, don't always get notified. Great video Roy!!👍👍😁

@RoysRocks Жыл бұрын

All good there will be plenty of others to come.

@nancycurtis7315 Жыл бұрын

Oops. Late today! Great that you caught up with family. Re watching video. I reckon I missed seeing a couple of stones. Have a good one.🙂

@RoysRocks Жыл бұрын

Yeah first time I had seen Paul since the start of covid.

@chadatchison145 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video Roy.

@RoysRocks Жыл бұрын

Double comment 😁👌

@morgandrysdale Жыл бұрын

I'm so happy I was finally able to catch this live! Thanks to your advice I've finally bought my first rough from Julian, can't wait to see it in the mail! Thank you Roy!!! 🤩

@RoysRocks Жыл бұрын

Hopefully at least a few gems out of a Jullian Stavreas parcel.

@karenjones7111 Жыл бұрын

Awesomeness..✌❤❤

@RoysRocks Жыл бұрын

Hopefully a few of the stones polish up.

@HanstheTraffer Жыл бұрын

I got my little chucks from China...thanks again for that info.

@RoysRocks Жыл бұрын

No worries. I'm still waiting on a set headed my way for the ozito size.

@dcallan812 Жыл бұрын

I missed the live stream so thanks for posting this 2x👍 I usually go for the stuff that wont make a nice calibrated stone, it adds a premium that I dont need. I only do this as a hobby and I enjoy the random shapes.

@RoysRocks Жыл бұрын

Its a good way to go and you can get some great prices for stones that still turn out beautiful just not classic oval in shape.

@russoliver657 Жыл бұрын

That definitely looks like Gary's off cuts

@RoysRocks Жыл бұрын

Yeah I need to get him on to a dremel. I know he likes his pointers and cabs but he could have fun carving.

@MrSkrilla316 Жыл бұрын

That feeling when you see one rough opal among many and just have to get grinding 😊

@RoysRocks Жыл бұрын

I've lost a bit of that buzz over the years. Now I just have a long lineof stones to cut but little time.

@holyjolokia Ай бұрын

Cool

@RoysRocks Ай бұрын

I need to find this parcel again and sift through it but not sure where I put it...

@gazdavies5581 Жыл бұрын

Thanks mate. Just saw this. Great info for carvers.

@RoysRocks Жыл бұрын

Man I haven't done a live stream in a while! I have to fix that.

@drfill9210 Жыл бұрын

I literally was about to drop a video on buying online!

@RoysRocks Жыл бұрын

Do it! It's an important topic. I've got another video in the works trying to cover the topic from both the seller and buyer side.

@drfill9210 Жыл бұрын

Don't worry, I didn't like the footage I took. I'll do a new one, but I have the bones of the presentation so it's a bit quicker to do

@bhutjolokia6990 Жыл бұрын

I used a 2 part epoxy last week for my first doublet, I will buy the one you have. I posted it on your Facebook the crystal with red on black potch.

@RoysRocks Жыл бұрын

So long as the 2 part is modern it should be okay. Most are pretty water resistant and non discolouring.

@bentationfunkiloglio Жыл бұрын

Great video! Small Lightning Ridge rough opals are heartbreakers. Small bits of sand in the wrong place totally ruin your day.

@RoysRocks Жыл бұрын

Yeah when you dont have the room to play it can be rough. I have a lot of good luck with small lightning ridge pea nobbies though for some reason.

@bentationfunkiloglio Жыл бұрын

@@RoysRocks I’ll have keep an eye out for some. Certainly, a gamble but could be fun/interesting.

@DarkenShroud Жыл бұрын

Check your messenger whenever. I linked you to the new Lapidary Dave show video. He's chilling with the dude that family owns the main Spencer Opal mine at their booth. Newest video by Lapidary Dave. You're gonna want to watch it before u dive into the American Opal content. So far this has been the most upto date comprehensive video on Spencer Opal I've seen. Also the best lead on the planet for the material. You should see there jars and huge chunks in matrix. He's starting to cover Quartzite and Tuscon this year already an amazing opal video.

@RoysRocks Жыл бұрын

I'll have to check it out at some point.

@Famo59 Жыл бұрын

You will always find something that slipped through.. Cheers Famo59

@RoysRocks Жыл бұрын

Just gotta keep my eyes wide open. Kinda like metal detecting and keeping my ears open.

@RonBateman-vl2wz 5 ай бұрын

I started cutting opal over 40 years ago and most of the parcel in this video would have gone to the scrap pile back then. What I could buy for $100.00 American back then is well over $1000.00 now. I`m still cutting and carving though.

@RoysRocks 5 ай бұрын

This parcel was literally buying a cutters scraps, it is just that scraps can have hidden gems for us carvers so can pay off big time. Yeah even just 5 years ago what you could get for $500 is now in the thousands. Unfortunately cut stone prices have not gone up at the same rate as rough.

@drfill9210 Жыл бұрын

Hey mate, I just went over the scraps from when I first started... there were some amazing gems in there! Also I call the cast off's from cutters "hospital rubs" they sell them cheap because they are unable/unwilling to cut them after removing material and seeing what they were up against

@RoysRocks Жыл бұрын

I'm sure if I went through my current scraps bundle I'd find a few gems that I was just too lazy to dive in to.

@drfill9210 Жыл бұрын

@@RoysRocks have a look through! You'll be surprised

@drfill9210 Жыл бұрын

@@user-cv7cw5xz7i interesting! Much harder to sell anything in Australia...

@bentationfunkiloglio Жыл бұрын

I do the same every so often. Always surprised by what I missed.

@drfill9210 Жыл бұрын

@@bentationfunkiloglio I think it's because no matter how far you are along the journey, you are always a little bit better next time...

@Kerrsartisticgifts 8 ай бұрын

This was a really enjoyable video for me, I've been buying some chips and off cuts. I'm wondering if any chemicals for calcium lime and rust removal would take some of the stone off of the chips. I know it wouldn't take away the potch or hurt sandstone but I have seen a couple of lapidary videos of people dissolving limestone and ironstone to expose agates and or other crystals and I'm wondering if anyone tried it with opal?

@RoysRocks 8 ай бұрын

Only works if the host rock has a high enough concentration of things like calcium carbonate. Then you'll get the fizz and have it crumble off.

@Kerrsartisticgifts 8 ай бұрын

@RoysRocks , that might be interesting to see. I thought it was when I saw the rock hounds exposing minerals from some rocks that way. They only let it dissolve about a third of the rock that exposed whatever minerals they were after. It was pretty artistic looking in the end.

@Opalsnz Ай бұрын

Calibrated finger 🤣

@RoysRocks Ай бұрын

I need a recalibration on these fingers. Thinner in winter. 😂

@Cam70868 3 ай бұрын

Didn’t teach what was titled

@RoysRocks 3 ай бұрын

There are still more than half a dozen tips directly addressing the points in the title. Also, this was just highlights of the full livestream that you didn't watch so of course you won't have the full context.