Cutting opal first chip at the sides the rock for color.
Cutting opal not a difficult job and shape not difficult also but first you must see if the rock is carrying color inside, after you have gathered all the color, you must start facing each piece. Now the difficult job starts orientation, you will always be learning and making mistakes all your life, because orientation stone never the same.
Opal jewelry lot cheaper hear because you have gone direct to the primary producer goldsmith designer that open cut his own Australian opal mine. Here you are going direct wholesale prices to Mr Graham Black site and shopping cart, with the best deposit of Australian opals ever discovered from the only official government Heritage listed opal mine in the country of Australia, Heritage listed because the quality is the best deposit of opal gemstones ever discovered anywhere in the world.
Miner’s you are ready to document your find before heading off to the opal cutter, which will finish shaping and polish all of your opal stones ready for the market place. Cutting is definitely one of the best skills that a miner or buyer can learn, why he is out prospecting for Australian gemstones.
Finish cutting opal and polished .
Most important part of cutting is the very first step orientation you must learn to orientate if you mine, there are many pieces of rough that can be extremely difficult to orientate, but practicing on a lot of low grade material and then better grade, do not stop practicing. If you are lucky enough to have a partner with this skill to sit in and watch him orientate and face the ruff as much as possible. Cutting is not particularly difficult naturally some people are a natural at cutting and polishing .
Opals Australian National Women’s basketball team name, Opals Head coach Jan has one opal gemstone from Graham Black Opal famous mine, which is next door to where the famous opal named Halley’s comet, the Guinness book of world records largest uncut black opal gemstone that was discovered in modern time, also in the same year 1986 the year when Halley’s comet could be seen from Earth. About Graham Black official Government Heritage mine in Australia more information at Wikipedia Article famous Halley’s Comet by Graham Black Opal. The head coach stated his Opal jewellery will remain Jan preferred lucky opal jewellery to wear with pride . The coach has carried and worn a piece of lucky opal jewellery during all the major campaigns whilst coaching the Australian Basketball team, throughout Jan’s world Championships of 2002, the Athens Olympics of 2004, medal 2006 World Championships and Silver in Beijing Olympics.
Cutting opal seam is more difficult then dog stones to orientation.
Cutting opal first the sides than rub the top of the color I would recommend good diamond wheels and please use plenty of water to keep the rough cool, when you get close to the color please work slow. I would shape the stone you must then putt all your stones on to the sticks,you must make sure the stone is sitting square 90° to the sticks and let them set firmly over night. Next day you must work on a finder diamond wheel some people line to do three cutting stages of different grades of grinding wheels before they start there polishing. Again there are many techniques some cutter also like to use three stages in the polishing process, very important you must not let any contamination interfere with the final polishing stages example keep “Polishing wheels in a dust free environment” Unto you are ready to use them.
You must then take the stones off the sticks and clean them with warm water after a final check of the Opals find the scales weight each stone placed them in the individual plastic bag and price them. Cutting Opal the most important procedure by far is orientating the rough because if this stage is incorrect then you will lose large amount of color and there is nothing you can do to fix the problem all the polishing and cutting will not put the color back.
Cutting opal dark body tone difficult to orientation.
This procedure takes many years to learn and the only way to learn is to rub down as much low grade inexpensive rough as you can possibly fine . Please remember black is different to crystal and boulder is different again. Learn your particular type of stone and remember just because you understand one type of opal,but if you go out on to Queensland boulder opal mines to buy boulder and you have specialized in orientating and cutting opal crystal for example, then you really need to change your approach to cutting opal types and thinking slightly.
