Thank you to all in our community for making Christmas special for someone. A few weeks ago we brought you the story of Steiner Florian, a 14-year-old boy who has been opal cutting with sandpaper a...
Yesterday morning I was sent an image on Facebook by someone who asked if the stone was a real opal. As you can see from the image I thought that it was and to me, it looks like Australian material...
We all know that Lightning Ridge black opal is some of the best in the world. Unfortunately, along with being the best, it is also the toughest to find, but once you have been lucky enough to find ...
Today Justin shows you a top gem black opal being recut. A customer sent the opal because it was slightly out of shape and didn’t present well, considering an asking price of around $50,000.Justin ...
A customer bought a rough piece of opal and was unsure how it should be cut. He decided to send it back, so Justin cut it… tune in to watch a black opal emerge. Normally, we would re-list any stone...
A few weeks ago, we posted about Blue Opal and some new parcels we had in stock. One of our subscribers commented and set us a challenge to cut one of the parcels currently up for sale.Here in this...
What type of opal cutting machines can I use?There are many cutting machines and ways to cut and polish opal. Finding the opal-cutting machine to suit you is the question that most people have on t...