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Hold onto your seats, this ride is a rough one (no pun intended).This gorgeous-looking grey crockery top Wyoming Field nobby looks like it has the … Read more
Hold onto your seats, this ride is a rough one (no pun intended).This gorgeous-looking grey crockery top Wyoming Field nobby looks like it has the … Read more
It has been quite a while since I last cut a Clean Skin Nobby — I don’t believe I have ever filmed one being cut … Read more
What makes a Black Crystal Opal so unique?I’ll tell you all about it as we cut and polish a piece of rare Black Crystal Opal … Read more
From time to time you come up against a nobby opal that will challenge you like no others before it.When I purchase each piece of … Read more
Thanks for joining us — this is a rough opal cut you will not forgetI spent two weeks observing this gem, drawing on it and planning … Read more
Big, bold and a little unassuming — one thing is for certain, we’re going to need to bring out the heavy grit wheel to work … Read more
I am always up for a challange and sometimes those challenges have a way of working out better than you could ever imagine —This was … Read more
When I came across this piece of rough opal, its organic shape struck a similarity to the map of Australia and who doesn’t want an … Read more
Witches Hat Nobby Opal are unique to Lightning Ridge and is easily recognisable from its peaked form on top of the rough opal piece. Working … Read more
This humble piece of rough nobby opal certainly does take us from a zero to 100 in a short, albeit intense, amount of time. I … Read more
This week I am working on a Jag Hill Nobby Opal piece and I’m anticipating a great outcome for this one. The opals from this … Read more
I have been saving this red bar rough piece until I had studied it long enough to work out how to tackle it.If it faces … Read more