Hi! It’s Ruth here and I wanted to report on the future of opal. By now I’m sure you have watched Justin’s video on the Lightning Ridge Festival for 2018. If not you can watch it here. NOTE: This i...
Justin reports on the 2018 Lightning Ridge Festival and Opal Symposium plus he shares some of his favourite places.Like all of Justin’s communication, he prefers pictures to words! If you are a wor...
Watch the process of an opal being found, cut and then sent on the journey to you. Justin takes you from underground in Lightning Ridge to the cutting wheel then to the big smoke where the opal fin...
Thanks to all that commented and helped along the way with the decision of how to cut this opal. We decided take your advice and slice along the green colorbar in the middle for 3 to 4 nice double ...
Throughout the years I have given my opinion on the art of cutting opal. Now it is your turn.We need your help to decide what to do with this piece of Andamooka gem crystal chunk of opalIt has many...
Now we aren’t talking about the soft furnishing kinds but rather the opal shape that is appearing more and more. Cushion cut opal has been around forever and we often see boulder opal in rectangles...
Love gem opal but not into learning how to cut? This video is for you!Watch Justin transform an opal from a raw nobby into a massive wearable gem opal.Nobby opal like this is fairly typical for the...
New synthetic opals are being created every year and manufacturers are getting better at replicating natural opal. I recently obtained some of the new material from Tony Smallwood and thought it wa...
Cutting large opals takes some time and effort. In this video Justin goes through the process once the stone has been rubbed into a rough shape.He starts on the 360 grit diamond wheel and then prog...