Gems emerge from rough opal…
Sometimes its a real challenge to work out what to do with a piece of rough opal.
While Justin may be the expert, he also finds time spent examining a piece of rough is important.
The nobby in this video has been sitting in the safe for awhile now. Every now and then Justin would take it out of the safe..walk around with it and in different lights examine it. In Justin’s mind “It shows beautiful color and has much promise” – he simply doesn’t want to get it wrong….as we all know once you polish it away you can’t replace it.
In this video shows Justin roughing out the stone, its problems and the solutions he comes up with. In his viewpoint ‘patience ‘ is the key..and ‘take it slowly’.
View the end result … it might surprise you!
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