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Getting ready to cut opal by hand

Cutting opal by hand can be done. It takes time and patience but you will be rewarded with beautiful polish at the end if you follow my steps.
Justin Thomas – your opal cutting guru

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Black OpalThe black opals you’ll find on this website are perfect for making that extra special opal ring, opal pendant, black opal earrings, and even as part of a bracelet with mounted opals. Since black opals come in unique shapes and sizes there’s no way to exactly custom design your opal jewelry until you find the perfect opal. Finding the right opal to use in your jewelry is really a love affair… Love at first sight in fact. Because black opals can be found in a wide variety of patterns and colors, you might search a long time before you find the perfect opal gemstone, and you will know it as soon as you see it. Simply seeing photos of black opals isn’t good enough to make an opal buying decision, which is why every one of our opals has a short video to show the play of color that becomes the centerpiece of your opal jewelry. Gorgeous Black Opals from Lightning Ridge, Australia The black opal gemstones in our catalog change every week or so as we get new gemstones from the mine in Lightning Ridge here in Australia. Many of our opals are sold within days of being posted…
Dark OpalDark opal is just a few shades lighter than black opal and can have just as much brightness without the price tag. dark opals are a great way to own a larger impressive stone in carat weight and display a lighter bodytone of between N5 and N6 on the bodytone scale.
Crystal OpalWithin this online catalog you’ll find a wide selection of precious gemstones from Lightning Ridge, Australia. Since these are Australian crystal opal they are all stronger than opals from other parts of the world. That stronger quality makes them easier for jewelers to work with when making your custom jewelry designs. Crystal opals differ from their black opal and white opal siblings in that light can travel all the way through the stone. If you hold it up to the light you can see through it. This translucent quality would create an interesting effect in a pair of earrings with how they look outside in sunlight compared to how those same Australian crystal opal earrings would look in the evening or indoors. The strong and stable quality of these opals are perfect if you are looking to make a ring, pendant, or any other jewelry with one of these opals. The flash of color in these opals is often large and bright, and no two are ever alike. Don’t confuse crystal opals with white opals because the opals in this catalog will allow light to pass right through them, which is why those crystal opal earrings we mentioned would look…
Rough OpalThis is our full catalog of rough opal single gemstones and parcels of rough opals. All of the opals you’ll find here are from Lightning Ridge, Australia. These are all natural precious opal gemstones in their original state, without any treatments. These are strong, stable opals that won’t easily fall apart or crumble as you can cut, sand, polish, and carve them into the shape you need for your own custom opal jewelry creation. Opal cutters looking for parcels of rough opal can browse through this catalog or contact us for more specific needs, we’re here to help and we know how difficult it is to find the right opal to satisfy a special opal jewelry design. Rough & Unfinished Black Opal The opals here are completely unfinished but we may have snipped some of the pieces to give you a clear understanding of what you may find inside the nobby or seam. It’s always a bit of a surprise what mother nature dishes out, and that is half the fun – the other half, of course, is the challenge of working with the opal to show its best face. As cutters ourselves we put together parcels in a variety…
Opal JewelryOur jewelry is 100% natural Australian Opal jewelry. Unlike may other stores – we don’t use synthetic opal in our jewelry and unless stated all the opal is solid. Each piece has been designed around the opal to make it shine and show it off. Because of its inherent uniqueness opal jewelry always stands out and you are sure to get comments. Wearing an opal ring or earrings or necklace is to say to the world – I enjoy finer things and I am not a sheep – I like to march to the beat of my own drum. Opal jewelry has been worn for millennia. It is rumored that Cleopatra has an opal in her tiara from her lover Mark Antony. And Pliny a Roman philosopher called it the Queen of Gems for its multitude of colors. Considered throughout the centuries to be enormously lucky – knights took opal into battle believing it protected them – as did women who used opal is a strengthening talisman in childbirth. It was Queen Victoria however who really revived the passion for opal jewelry in the late nineteenth century when she wore it regularly and gave suites to her daughters. This coincided…
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