Rare!!! Red/Blue on Black Opal Chunks!!

For this video, what I thought was going to be a pair of mediocre opals turned into an experience of a lifetime for an opal cutter. I cut two, over 25-gram, Lightning Ridge black opals with rare red and blue colors. What makes blue/red opal so rare is that these colors are on opposite ends of the color spectrum and hardly ever appear by themselves together in opal or anywhere else in nature.

[@MichaelSchnidrig]

Sehr interessant. Danke fürs zeigen

[@melodyfaith7712]

I think the grey fog is unfortunate, but it makes the gems look like astronomical photographs from the Hubble Telescope. They are beautiful. Thanks.

[@alterhund4116]

Very nice 😉

[@ThatOpalGuy]

Great results. A shame that it was not brighter, but this is the way. I enjoyed the choice of music you used for the soundtrack. Also, I shared this on my page, hopefully it gets you a couple more subs.

[@michaelprue9024]

The black opals turned out very nice, your skills are great. The final polish you put on those stones was perfecto. Leading us to my question; Where did you find your final polish wheel ? I have been looking for that same exact one, with the nice big felt wheel and the reservoir in the bottom for the cerium oxide and water. Please tell me it’s not home made and available for purchase somewhere lol. Again, great job sir

[@BlueLineGems]

It’s not one unit, but multiple items I pieced together to create a whole. When I was starting out, I faced the same dilemma of finding a polishing unit without breaking the bank; and even then, it’s extremely difficult to find one. My Kingsly North, like other cabbing units, comes with side polishing wheels but I wanted a stand-alone unit for my cerium oxide. I could’ve purchased the “GSP8 Sander Polisher” from Gemcuts in Australia for $995 dollars AUS ($700 US) + shipping. But even then, I was unsure as if they even shipped to the US and/or Europe or not. I ended up purchasing a Rikon 8 inch low speed buffer from Amazon (The Powertec BF800 is similar), a Marathon 8 inch felt polishing wheel, and a Polish Cover Assembly (SKU: WBS0011) for the Wet Belt Sander from Highland Park Lapidary for under $400 dollars. My next video may be on this subject with hyperlinks in the description since I can't include links on this reply.