Opal cutting: plan your cut.

G’day everyone, I hope you’re all well! In this video we’ll be opening up some parcels that need cutting, with some additional material from my stash. I’ll got a bit of detail into how I look at the rough opal and estimate a possible yield, it’s always best to read the opal before any grinding, to glean as much information as possible to be able to make good decisions. I hope you enjoy, thanks for your time. 🤪👍
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[@Phoenix_Enterprises]

Love the 1.05ct little party opal. Perfect example of why I love crystal opal. You did a great cut/polish on that little gem. Thanks for sharing Phil Hoping you find lot's of good stuff on your next trip.

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[@vision325]

Thankyou for the excellent instructional videos. Great work packed with the type of information the budding opal cutter usually has to learn the hard way.

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[@trudyhindle3147]

Missed your shows of encouragement & lessons in cutting. Glad to see you have not quit making episodes

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[@bentationfunkiloglio]

Great video, Phil! Never heard of oolitic opal before. Had to look it up. Pretty interesting material. Your videos really help. My cuts are starting to look at least halfway decent now, haha. Really appreciate your channel!

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[@lyndallsymons9767]

Love your work Phil it is also great to see the thinking process involved to turn a piece of rough into a beautiful gem stone :)

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[@1catfishuntermiller753]

Hiya Phil, awesome video and you went through a transformation at the beginning of the video. 😂 Beautiful stones and awesome work mate. And hey! If Kevin doesn't want those stones, I'll be glad to take them. Lol I hope you have a awesome blessed day mate. Cheers! Cya! 😺🐟 out!

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[@susannesamuelsson2930]

I loved that pretty little colorful crystal opal!👋💎👍❤️

[@annakeye]

Me too. 🙂

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[@stewartbox5891]

Super video lots of information

[@jeffholmes1362]

Nice job Phil, nice noodling finds, that crystal is beautiful. And Marvin the Martian where is that earth shattering KaBoom. There was supposed to be an earth shattering KaBoom. Yes that took me back……

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[@jeffdillon-zg7oq]

Great video. I love the way you break it down. I learn so much from your videos. Gives me more confidence to buy some rough.

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[@fanton777doy9]

Phill gracias por tus trabajos ,le pones creatividad y corazón 🌼💪👍🙂

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Cheers. 🤪👍

[@bbisyy4u]

Brilliant work as always Phil. I look forward to your andemooka trip.

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[@nancycurtis7315]

Another great video. Good to see you back. Greetings from Dimboola, in Victoria.

[@theopalmills]

G’day Nancy, thanks for being a part of this channel. 🤪👍

[@jay8353]

Excellent video, thanks heaps for sharing your knowledge. Gavin Hogg is a lucky bugger lol

[@theopalmills]

Yeah, but they never got in contact with me! 🤷‍♂️

[@A_Bone1972]

quite a variety of material. rough to cut may yield an approximate 20% result. however, sharing your process to get that result exponentially gave the 80% loss a priceless value ✌️🐝➕

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[@BreakOutOfTheAlgorithm]

I just stumbled upon your channel and absolutely love it. I'm a big fan of black opal direct. Been following him for years and I live in the States so not a lot of knowledge about opal or experience with it, however I absolutely love gemstones and enjoy your content. Looking forward to more adventures and beautiful looking creations. 👍✨🙏🇺🇸

[@theopalmills]

G’day mate, welcome to the channel. 🤪👍

[@TyOtis]

Another great vid thanks Phil!!

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[@offyarocka]

Was really cool seeing you work out the cut using the sharpie, made sooo much more sense when you see it planned out like that🤔🤔🤔 There was one stone that had 3 red colour bars that had me thinking, would you be able to split them using a trim saw? Awesome video, thanks for sharing ✌😎✌

[@theopalmills]

G’day mate, good question, if the colour was brighter and cleaner, I’d have chased at least two stones, but it’s the size, sand and lack of brightness, that made it impractical. 🤪👍

[@offyarocka]

@@theopalmills Ah ok cool, that makes sense 🤔🤔🤔

[@410connects]

great video buddy

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[@pkgoldopalhunting]

great crystals man all stones a good

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[@rocknrollmine]

Proper use of the word glean, is far too low in these troubling times. :D

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[@andreameigs1261]

Please wear a mask, dear. You seem like a really lovely person and we don't want to loose you to the cancer that gets the opal miners or silicosis. If you can smell them, you're breathing it in. Also, I think it is really interesting that different opals smell differently when you cut them because I am a very scent-oriented person, and I would be curious to smell them once, and it probably wouldn't do too much harm, but you're cutting stones often enough and out in the dust often enough that you should probably have some protection.

[@theopalmills]

G’day mate, I do appreciate your concern, but the smell is gaseous, not a fine powder, a dust mask wouldn’t stop the smell, and with the water running over the wheel washing away the ground opal, I’m quite safe from silica dust. Cheers. 🤪👍