LIVE rough opal cutting session. You’re invited

[@MrPeterschmit]

Like that picture of your dad on the wall behind you. I often feel he'd be very proud of you

[@blackopaldirect]

Yeah❤️

[@steveclark4291]

Justin you should be proud of your son as he's doing great on picking out Opals , cutting and polishing them ! Thank you for sharing this with me ! Also thank you for 2 videos in one day which was awesome !

[@blackopaldirect]

Thanks Steve and you are welcome

[@steveclark4291]

Thank you Justin for the lesson how some people will scam others by coloring the back of Opals ! I love learning stuff about Opals from you !

[@blackopaldirect]

Glad it was helpful!

[@rock_fortress2265]

Love a double header...2 videos in one day makes today extra special! We've been missing the lives.

[@blackopaldirect]

awww thank you Ive missed you guys too

[@janjirawilliams1172]

This's my first time watching anything live. I am happy to be a part of this endeavor. ❤😊🎉

[@donaldwilson2548]

I'm glad you had a great time at the BIG show! Don Wilson, Tacoma, Washington 😊

[@blackopaldirect]

The best!

[@rosemarywise5952]

Great job Saxon!! Beautiful opal!!!

[@blackopaldirect]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@randallmallard2818]

Hi from sunny Plant City, Florida. Home of The Strawberry Festival.

[@78LedHead]

I had a good feeling that small stone would end up being a little RIPPAH! Cool patterns in it as well. My bet was cat's eye, but yeah, more so rolling flash. Thanks for sharing these with us.

[@angvannuil9280]

Yes please more posts of cutting...I find it so relaxing I'm struggling at the min health ways so am restricted to the house 🏠 but your vids make my day Angie in Scotland

[@scottlubsen9004]

Beautiful stones in this cutting, very bright colors.

[@peelmeone]

Tamika's smile can brighten the darkest of rooms.

[@stefansvanstrom9635]

Please show more about the jewlery making with your amazing opals

[@diannawake3134]

I was just gifted my very first piece of Black Opal and I couldn't be more in Love! I have been so obsessed with thos Beautiful Stone for a few years now. Thanks to Justin and this channel! I just don't know much about it at all! I would love to send You a picture just to brag!

[@jenniferlehman326]

Saxon, the Opals you cut and polished are stunning!! Well done, young man!! Justin, the stones you cut are beautiful. I hope you show them all polished up soon!!! Your friend, the Retired Paramedic and Horse Trainer in Ontario, Canada, Jenn 💖

[@nancypiros9133]

Hello Tamika & Justin❣️ Yay Saxon cut some opals❣️ Beautiful opals in this bundle!!!

[@jamesblake7338]

Oh wow, Saxon did a great job!

[@patrickdevillier530]

Truly, nothing compares to a colorful black opal. I love my Saxon ring with a fabulous broad flash gem. ❤

[@reginaditt128]

Welcome back ! Missed you both. Hello Tamika 👋👋👋 Justin, I saw your interview with Lapadairy Dave. You looked like you were having a good time.

[@jackiehocker4960]

Always love your videos makes me want to live there😮 but at 70 Im where my destination has led me. Your happiness is contagious so please keep up the knee knocking stress . Saxon you rock😅

[@MarkGardiner-mk3ic]

Glad your back safely

[@W.MOpals]

2 videos in 1 day! Thats a treat as rare as opal itself 😉 great tips as always, loved watching 🙏

[@blackopaldirect]

More to come my friend

[@TheOldladyB]

Absolutely gorgeous pieces.

[@jeffheaslip]

Great session...and from Minnesota USA

[@stuartgilbert3969]

Great stuff. From the land down under... the land down under. Tasmania. Australia 🇦🇺

[@lovelyladyvalerie]

excited to see the Presti Machine! Very cool to see it in use and out of production

[@blackopaldirect]

You and me both!

[@faysitler1211]

We don't know too much. We just know what you've told us so keep on telling this more this is fun and educational

[@tattoedmat]

Great looking gems. Saxon is coming on fantastic deffinatly a natural

[@carolharris2357]

I like the perks on that job, (the ring). I saw a video with a large, clear quartz that looked like it was splashed with bright colors like an expanded opal. Just sections on one side, clear on the other. Amazing.

[@jaynerichards7527]

Well done Saxon❤ great to see your work.

[@GeraldGalbo-w9w]

Always fun to watch you work,,, having fun 😊

[@susannesamuelsson2930]

I have missed you a lot but it's wonderful to meet you Justin and Tamika. I'm watching the video from Sweden and the clock is about 05.43 in the morning. Greetings to you all at BOD 👋❤️💎😍👍!

[@blackopaldirect]

Thank you! You too Susan

[@susannesamuelsson2930]

@@blackopaldirect 👋❤👍

[@importslife9616]

Hello from Jacksonville Florida

[@terrypack7537]

Shingletown California here . Love watching your videos

[@blackopaldirect]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@luannski6895]

That one small crystal looks like there's confetti in it!

[@DonSenick]

Love your work

[@donaldwilson2548]

Yeah, the picture is good!

[@Lyescherrat]

Thank for you Justin, i am lyass from Kabylie in North Africa, Hello for you.

[@Ilovegold]

That pair of blacks at the end were absolute bangers

[@blackopaldirect]

kapow

[@amandadonegan2137]

So l couldnt stay awake here in lreland and watched this with my breakfast instead....wish we could see more uploads Justin its so soothing and hypnotising to watch you birth such incredible stones. Ive watched every single vid and short you have...more than once! 🤗🤗🌈

[@blackopaldirect]

Thank you 🙏

[@thenodiggardener]

Blimey, Saxon is really cracking a pace with his skills. Those stones are great. I mean, just spit balling this here, but I'll sit watching Saxon cut stones for more videos too. That red pair at the end: in my never ending 'no money wish list' 🤣

[@jamesblake7338]

Hello was hoping to get on live but something came up . Glad u guys are back and hope u had a great time in Arizona! ❤️from North Carolina!

[@blackopaldirect]

Next time! James 😊

[@laurawilson5716]

Hello ! Just bought my 1st Opal from BOD last night!!

[@A_Bone1972]

the last 2 have colors that put Easter to shame! ✌️🐝➕

[@blackopaldirect]

lol

[@lloydbellis7360]

That was great. Thank you 😎😎😎👍👍👍

[@blackopaldirect]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@theresaelliott7878]

Nice work Saxton.

[@libbyb67]

hi Justin. I think at 36.48 and 38.24 your stone with the craters has some beautiful blue at the base. So you may get a tiny opal out of it. I couldn't see how much though because you didn't focus on that part.

[@jessespence6065]

Hello from Manitoba Canada!

[@scottishwifie14]

Very true Justin that opal there is no comparison with other stones. But I do like the Scottish agate and Whitby Jet that I have found on beaches here in the Uk. But opal is my first love.

[@A_Bone1972]

that cushion cab your son cut (1st one) is quite a distinguished gentlemanly ripper of a stone! have it on a bolo or a tie-clip, the next 2 rounds on cuff links, with the last set in a ring, that'd be quite the set! ✌️🐝➕

[@blackopaldirect]

Good call!

[@faysitler1211]

Great stories and vid. Once again thanks guys 👍

[@jribeye1818]

Hi Justin, You can get a tool to square off your wheels again. Also it’s best to use all of the surface from side to side which also helps from getting a curve in your wheel.

[@blackopaldirect]

Yes correct

[@glennsowacke9752]

Awesome video. I wish I knew the the part of opal you forgot!!!😊 I'm in Az, USA

[@scottday8454]

Great video again Justin & Tamika. Awesome to hear Saxon is getting in, givin it a crack & enjoying it. Agree about true pure stones. If I as a buyer want a stone... I would personally buy a piece of potch before I would buy $ a laminated piece. If I found you duped me, look out! You would know you have both hands full...

[@4208bea1811]

What? I don't understand this comment...

[@hippopotaman075]

Missed the live so watching at home in Beaconsfield vic 10.28 pm

[@glennsowacke9752]

Your assistant is beautiful!!!❤

[@danrogers9945]

Not anything close in value, but same sort of concept. I polish a lot of granite and quartz for countertops (and few other stuff).when my stubborn old school ways finally got some new type equipment, i was floored at how well it worked out! They have come out with better polishing tools!

[@larrychernick3391]

Hey there welcome back 🎉❤❤😊😊

[@michaelrobinson8915]

From Mexico bendiciones...m

[@srj2590]

I was wondering if on one of your segments you could explain the rarity of an opal in relation to average size and carats of what one in reality would expect to see found and produced for jewelry. I think a lot of us don't understand the reality and the typical average sizes mined and produced for jewelry vers what we see on the tv shows and such. Thanks for sharing your skills and knowledge

[@ROCKINWHEELERS]

One thing I know in life, there is always someone that is better than you. The sad thing is one will not give credit to the one they know that is TRULY THE BEST!!! BUT YOU ARE GOOD!!

[@alexandruserdeliuc6570]

Hi from Barcelona, Spain

[@terrypack7537]

Yes we see you

[@luannski6895]

Hello from Kingwood, TX in the Houston area.

[@blackopaldirect]

Hello there!

[@CarissaMurray]

Hi I'm new and watching your older videos and I'm from Brisbane QLD

[@blackopaldirect]

Welcome!!

[@jerryhaag8473]

Hello from Arizona

[@rionstretton8133]

Gold ops i love ruby's ❤❤

[@igvtec]

Hello from Queensland.

[@vickibretey7907]

I also love fire agate

[@Bobbyo60]

Oswego, Illinois here!!

[@A_Bone1972]

oh, yeah. question: i'd be curious as to your value after you finish the cut & polish on the crystal opal that you demonstrated a doublet, or unfortunately sometimes passed as a black (albeit faked or faux)? to be clear, after you finish the cut & polish, with not making a doublet or any backing, as a crystal opal, i'd like to see the final result of the stone & what value would you give it? ✌️🐝➕

[@DrewLeBreton]

Hi Justin and Tomicka, I see you doing your live shows on KZbin the day after. I wanted to know how to join the the chat and what time do they happen. Thanks, Drew L.

[@judaychop]

I like labradorite, its like larger cheaper opal, would be cool to see you work with some

[@karlahall9058]

How do you pick the pieces you're going to cut on your livestream? Are they by chance? Or do you pick them specifically for the show? They're finally notifying me of your videos. It was four hours too late, but it's the first time it's happened so I'm happy I'm finally getting them. Thank you Justin, love your videos.

[@blackopaldirect]

I have a bag of pieces I pick from

[@kathycummings3088]

Hello from Maine USA!

[@blackopaldirect]

Hello there!

[@murraycooper1194]

Damn, Caught a live one. Living in North Carolina but originally from NSW,

[@mariesophie3053]

Hello from Boston Massachusetts

[@kerrymarshall-vo2dv]

I love opal then topaz

[@TomsBackyardWorkshop]

I wanted to go to Tucson this year but I didn't have the vacation days.

[@debraanchante3661]

I’d rather have opals than diamonds

[@carolharris2357]

Are you getting to the opal fields?

[@ericbeeman8717]

And with out the silica n sand from the great flood and the transition metals in blood u can't get the colors in opal or opal there's some opallized body parts out there to a heart and it had some beautiful colors on one side and some ok colors on the other but the side the blood pooled n looked the best its like wow amazing and there's been some eyes found thats opal the opal in an opal is an eyeball and the.ulur mound over there is a giant part of a heart muscle there's a couple other places there that are remnants of giant body parts

[@DonSenick]

I'm Doris from Vancouver B.C. Canada

[@dennyoden]

Awesome viideo

[@blackopaldirect]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@teresaballard2137]

Snowy Oregon.

[@sethg7085]

You guys do amazing rubs

[@PaulHuininken]

Hi from the Netherlands

[@hossoutdoors-n-wildlife6199]

Hello from Monticello UT

[@remaxima1]

Rose from Mount Albert, Canada

[@judithfairchild8620]

Jason is there any other jewel that has such a wide variety of colors as opals?

[@remaxima1]

We can see you!

[@carolharris2357]

The ultimate enemy, sand. Yes Arizona is dry. I have to get used to it.

[@DonSenick]

I wished I had known about this job because I would have perused it before I had MS

[@marciedwards-q2r]

Portland, Oregon

[@woody2669]

Is the new polishing unit Aussie? I just want the splash guard off the Gemasta

[@blackopaldirect]

no its made in the USA

[@teuviraupokotea4830]

Kia ora from New Zealand 🇳🇿 churr ehoama

[@priscillaspeicher4715]

Washington State, USA

[@UnindictedCo-Conspirator]

Coldwater, Mississippi

[@adrianvaldez9102]

Playa, is that your wife? She's a beaut congratulations on a lovely family you're a lucky man to also have a son keeping the family opal tradition going

[@sethg7085]

Moonstone, labadorite