Can You Remove The Smoke From Opal?

[@RichardMcnelson]

Really interesting, I would have never guessed that baking soda would do that to the surface of the opal. Gorgeous painting by the way, I love how lively the water looks.

[@carlynscolorfulcreations]

Thank you! I thought it was pretty wild too, and thank you for commenting, I really appreciate it.

[@haroldwilliamburg7716]

Awsome video! I can't wait to try this out on some smoked stones I have at home! 😄

[@carlynscolorfulcreations]

Thank you for commenting! Let me know how it works out with your stone.

[@chrissaucier9386]

Right on... Awesome change to the channel 👏

[@carlynscolorfulcreations]

Thank you!

[@Kerrsartisticgifts]

Thanks a lot for this video! I was really trying to find out how to reduce or remove the smoke from the opal that I bought and smoked myself. I couldn't find anything about it on the web. I just need a little amonia now, and I will try it and let you know how I make out. By the way, I paint too and I really like this painting you just showed. I really like the light behind the hills, it's a good painting

[@carlynscolorfulcreations]

Thank you so much! And let me know how it works out with your stone if there is any complications. I had a really fun time making this video and I wouldn't have had the idea if it wasn't for you. Thank you for commenting aswell, it always really helps the channel.

[@Kerrsartisticgifts]

Have you ever made a cabochon and discovered that the back had become a lot flashier than the dome? What would you do if that happened?

[@carlynscolorfulcreations]

I've definitely run into that problem more than once, its always a disappointment, I usually end up just leaving the stone how it is and just make sure that whatever setting i put it in has a open back so you can see the flash on the back. I mean, ive re-cut stones a couple times because of this, but I personally find it much more painful to cut the stone down more after I find out about that, just because usually the flash on the face isn't so bad, but if the flash on the face is nothing compared to the back I feel like I have to go in and take some carats off to make a new face. But yeah, it happens, especially with etheopian since it gets all clear and you can't see the colors so well when its wet.

[@kenonmuzzy9243]

This happens on every stone I cut. So I started making a flatter dome rather than a round one. And it helped a little bit.

[@CanyonArchaic]

Redop. And dome the back of the cab. It happens. Then you can get those nice full 3D opal cabs that are not only worth more, but are amazingly beautiful 😊

[@marekkram5608]

Very interesting and good video to !!!! 100%

[@leelalakshminarayachuduru398]

PLEASE SAID WHICH ONE IS BEST

[@CanyonArchaic]

They are treating and smoking rough opal parcels now too. Once cut and polished the stone turns brown and the color play subsides. Even acetone won't bring it back. I had a 32 carat welo that was appraised at $4,600 after I cut it. Then it dried out and I was going to get a dry weight appraisal. The opal had been treated as rough. The reaction it had from wet cutting caused it to turn milk chocolate brown. The color flash subsided, and the opal was quite literally worthless.

[@carlynscolorfulcreations]

Thank you for commenting! I bought some rough opal off etsy a couple years ago that had been smoked as rough and I didn't realize, the material crazed as soon as I worked on it. Definitely upsetting. I'm sorry to hear about your experience with that, I havnt tried this smoke removal method on those yet, but I might make a video about that if I do.

[@mark5071]

Was curious to find out if this was possible. Nice video.

[@carlynscolorfulcreations]

Thanks for watching, commenting, and subscribing! I'm glad you liked my video, let me know if you have any different results In your experience. While it definitely worked, I am curious about how it would work on larger or more smoked stones.

[@leelalakshminarayachuduru398]

PLEASE SAID WHICH COMBINATION IS BEST

[@carlynscolorfulcreations]

15:49 is where I say the one that worked

[@SirRocksAlot]

The smoke has only penetrated 1 or 2 mm of the suface. This is why tge cneter when reintroduced to a liquid went back to milky. (Hydrophane) and this combination penetrated further into the opal.

[@Nectro16]

Hey, thanks for that video, can you remember what concentration the Hydrogen peroxide is? On the internet I can only find 3-12% ones

[@carlynscolorfulcreations]

Thank you for commenting, good question. The hydrogen peroxide I used in this video is a 3% version.

[@Nectro16]

@@carlynscolorfulcreations thank you alot🙏

[@gordonyork6638]

I really likenyou Experiment. I would however keep a control group so you have a better grasp on b4 and after. I think the unsmoked opals were better on a while. IS smoking opals a thing? I know they use sugar and an acid to turn andamooka opal black yet terrain the color. Great vid, keep it up. Like to see.more

[@carlynscolorfulcreations]

Thank-you for watching and commenting! I totally had some unsmoked opal cabs and spheres I could've showed to have a control, I just didn't even think about it. But yeah, that probably would've been ideal. But as far as smoking opals goes, with Australian, Brazilian, and American opal, since they are only slightly hydrophane smoking isn't really a thing with those types. But with etheopian opal, since it is so hydrophane and it absorbs water and oils well, people smoke it to make it darker so it looks more like black opal. You might think that it would go for a higher price and that's why people smoke opal, but this isn't the case. When you smoke etheopian opal it drastically devalues the stone, that's why I wanted to make a video about removing the smoke, so if someone buys a cheap smoked opal they can bring it back to its former natural beauty.

[@Bpermataku]

How to change it to black color ?

[@carlynscolorfulcreations]

You probably would just need to smoke it for alot longer honestly. I didn't because I didn't have the time to that day, but if you keep an eye on it and smoke it for more like 10 hours vs the 2 hours I smoked it for I'm sure they would be alot darker. But im also not a authority on smoking opal since I'm someone who doesn't like it, like I made the video on removing the smoke because I wanted there to be options for others who wish to remove the smoke since it's known to reduce the value of a opal greatly, and selling smoked opal as black opal Is basically scamming people.

[@kenonmuzzy9243]

I thought you were going to remove the natural smokey or cloudy color from inside the opal. Because i cut some beautiful opals with tons of color but they are so cloudy it takes away from the brightness of the opal.

[@ThatOpalGuy]

I cannot believe I never liked and commented on this video.

[@crucifyrobinhood]

omfg. why. chicks, jesus.

[@helsfury]

Most long winded boring video I have ever seen on youtube