I think the stone is gorgeous. It looks like a pond in your backyard where the lilies have grown almost over the whole thing, but it leaves the one deep pool, free of lilies.
G’day Jason ,back in the early 80s I found an opal similar to this one on the side of the road not far from the bottle house at the ridge ! But it had more multi coloured the guy at the old opal shop cut it for me . I regret selling it along with many others I found back then! The guy who cut my stone i think was your dad ! I could be wrong but the pictures you have put up of your dad really looks like him ! I love your sight brings back so many memories from living in walgett going to the ridge and chance i could to find opal! 🍻👍🇦🇺
❤❤its beautiful. Never do the should have could have would have train of thought. Everything happens for a reason. You always do impressive works. Always.
It had such a great looking potential, but alas, it was not to be. I'm glad you learned about those types of stones. The final result was still a beautiful piece. Thanks for sharing this with us.
HUGS!! It really did turn out to be a beautiful stone!! And as you said a couple lessons learned. I really enjoyed the video. I love that you are honest with yourself, and the rest of us. You could easily have just not released the video. I really am glad you did. We get to learn this way too!
Oh well Justin, I think you handled the opps Opal cut much better than I would have. But, life does have ups and downs. Great lesson of words to live by ❣️ See you next week as always.
Justin you're right on target. You can go further with that idea. You have to learn from your mistakes. If you don't you're not moving forward into perfecting your skill sets. In the end it's all about learning. Perfection is likely never going to come to anyone here on earth, ha. Still you've got to reach for the stars and hope you grab a rainbow now and then. Cheers.
Amazing stuff Sir... Couldn't imagine the stress of cutting such a beautiful piece...it came out gorgeous... I've been looking at mine for months now 😂 I'm going to get at it soon... Thanks for the instructions and lesson
Thank you for the words of encouragement at the 5 min mark sir. I recently added another stepping stone to my 5 mile footpath. Somehow brought me some comfort 🙏
I Like the new video format very much. Great to see Saxon joining in the video making process, he's a young man full of different talents. Good to see the mistakes, its all about the learning, it never stops, no matter what profession/career you undertake in life. You should always be learning. Thanks Justin for sharing this and also to Black Opal Direct for another fantastic video.......until next week.....
Beautiful video, beautiful message. Thank you Justin. Ive found myself going back and rewatching alot of older videos or ones ice missed. Your content and the messages you pass on to us all has always been amazing. The video quality has improved with time, but always been such enjoyable content. ❤
hi from ohio and that was the message I tryed to share with you when you took that opal from your son you still got a opal just not what you wanted now you shared this and the one you need to apply this in training your son. nothing but peace and love for your work and experience and this lesson is how you pass it on to them let them ask for advice from you ,lead with an open heart ,and the pain of watching them learn from their mistakes is hard but they learn the same way you do, through growth and experience giving them love and understanding life gets better. still a nice save love your work.
Was working on a great potential stone last night. Almost double the color bar thickness I usually get. Found 2 cracks while cleaning it up. If I'd had a fortune cookie prior, it would have said, "earrings are in your future"
Hello Justin It has become a beautiful stone. Don't get me wrong, but it's encouraging to see that mistakes still happen to you too..Of course I wish you no mistakes😂😂❤❤ greetings from Switzerland
Opal is like family. Sometimes it's full of cracks. Sometimes it's only good under water. Sometimes mistakes happen for the good and sometimes for the bad. Sometimes opal is good in smaller pieces. And sometimes it's good when it is never cut apart. All families are like opal. Some families are greater when left whole, and some are greater when cut apart. It is what it is. Opal cutters have a lot to say about families.
Justin , Sir , please don't be hard on yourself ! We all make mistakes ! With this being from a new mine , you took a chance ! At least now you have some knowledge of what the Opals from there might pose to be ! Sure a rough lesson learned but still a good lesson for next time !
I like the unique look of this stone ! Sometimes when the stone has different characteristics across its face it almost feels like it is telling a bit of a story and I feel this is one of those stones! Instead of a picture stone it is a story stone ❤
Cut the big one again and make it a square cushion cut! Make the black piece a tear drop and the other piece a triangle! They all will be beautiful in their own way! Catch you on the next. ✌️ 😊
A lot of us just settle too. Our habits define us and the bottom line is "Living 'well' is the best revenge" In the now in our neighborhood in our niche and not let the ninnies ruin our outlooks. It's the collection.
I wish I had the experience and the money to play around with a piece of opal like this. Everything I buy is the garbage everyone throws away lol. I get lucky sometimes, but it's mostly so full of sand it could qualify as a Japanese sand garden ha. Keep up the great content Justin and team. Lots of fun learning with you.
Iv just started my opal cutting and its amazing how much of a risk vs reward it is so many opals look nice on the outside until you start grinding away and realise it all can turn pear shaped really fast
Wow you are human :). I was doubting that. I really like this video not because i enjoy your mistake or result not as good as it could be but because there is a lot to learn here from the cut and your commentary thank you Justin.
Still turned out great, thanks for showing realistic life, good vid Justin 🤩 I know I asked this before, what would an opal look like if cut like a diamond, you replied it wouldn’t work, however since you’re ok with owning your mistakes, could you please make another one for research and my curiosity, mainly for my curiosity 😅 Forgive me I’m not offering to fund said crazy idea, though I will continue to watch you cut opal, if you don’t accept this challenge then I sentence you to an opal crazy dance, shake it baby like no one’s watching 🕺
haha faceting a gem is for capturing light and color into a gem. Opal already has play of color in it so if you facet an opal light light will diffuse the play of color and weaken it
Its still a beautiful piece and there is still no garauntee that the piece would have come out if you had cut the other way, it probably would because you know your stuff, but there is still an element of doubt. Very cool thankyou for sharing.
You did the best you could with the rough you had. It may not be the nicest opal you've ever cut, but it's not horrible. Somebody will want it I'm sure.
Love to all y’all! What was that beautiful music playing in your video? I’d love to hear more of it. Who is that? Ok , I watch all your videos ❤ and I’d watch them all again!
It's interesting. On a different stone, you might have been excited to find that lovely opal. But because of all the hope and potential before it was cut, it seems almost a disapointment. I suppose its a lesson in tempering our expectations to. Sometimes its better to prepare for the worse and hope for the best and your more likely to be pleased with the outcome.
Somehow your video made me feel a bit better about an opal tragedy that I endured today. Completely shattered a really nice 10+ ct white opal. Not a fortune, but still makes me sad :-(
I was gifted a beautiful and huge, black Australorp chicken last year. It is an Australian breed of chicken and they are ranked as the most prolific egg layer of any breed. Her feathers are iridescent blue & green in the sunlight. I named her Opal. 🙂 Her name is so appropriate and it took me a year to name her. Until her name dawned upon me I just called “Big Black Beautiful Gurl”.
Hey team BOD. I love all your vids. However this video was like a strobe light changing from camera angle to camera angle. Difficult to watch. The opal is the star of all your vids so concentrating on that is the best feedback I can offer. Cheers.
A good comparison is buying boxes of expensive lures that look great, but the fish won’t eat them. I’m sure you have had this experience as well mate 😎🇦🇺
Could you do a break down next time on how much you spent on a beautiful piece like that to how much or how little profit you make just so people can get a better understanding
That was not a mistake. It was the best possible desicion given the information you had. Now you have more information and can make an even better desicion next time.
I'd be waking up every night from nightmares where I am cutting the world's most perfect black opal, can't stop myself from making that once last touch over and over, and eventually grind it into nothing! 😂
I think the stone is gorgeous. It looks like a pond in your backyard where the lilies have grown almost over the whole thing, but it leaves the one deep pool, free of lilies.
A person that never made a mistake never learned. Its how we grow as people Still you got a nice stone and another bit of experience.
I love the way you look at mistakes. Mistakes are how we learn.
Thats it
@@blackopaldirect chasing crude rolls them🪱👀zzz
better luck tomorrow
G’day Jason ,back in the early 80s I found an opal similar to this one on the side of the road not far from the bottle house at the ridge ! But it had more multi coloured the guy at the old opal shop cut it for me . I regret selling it along with many others I found back then! The guy who cut my stone i think was your dad ! I could be wrong but the pictures you have put up of your dad really looks like him ! I love your sight brings back so many memories from living in walgett going to the ridge and chance i could to find opal! 🍻👍🇦🇺
That’s cool 😎
Oh really? How awesome!
Yes a lesson learnt watching a master craftsman work magic is such a joy thankyou team opal ❤️😎🏴☠️🫡
❤❤its beautiful. Never do the should have could have would have train of thought. Everything happens for a reason. You always do impressive works. Always.
You're the Opal Philosopher, Justin. Clear and Bright and True.
🥹
It had such a great looking potential, but alas, it was not to be. I'm glad you learned about those types of stones. The final result was still a beautiful piece. Thanks for sharing this with us.
I totally agree and thank you sand maker
HUGS!! It really did turn out to be a beautiful stone!! And as you said a couple lessons learned. I really enjoyed the video. I love that you are honest with yourself, and the rest of us. You could easily have just not released the video. I really am glad you did. We get to learn this way too!
Oh well Justin, I think you handled the opps Opal cut much better than I would have. But, life does have ups and downs. Great lesson of words to live by ❣️
See you next week as always.
You get what you get and you don’t get upset 🙂 best frame of mind
yeah, it's all just more knowledge for the future.
Justin you're right on target. You can go further with that idea. You have to learn from your mistakes. If you don't you're not moving forward into perfecting your skill sets. In the end it's all about learning. Perfection is likely never going to come to anyone here on earth, ha. Still you've got to reach for the stars and hope you grab a rainbow now and then. Cheers.
Thank you
Amazing stuff Sir... Couldn't imagine the stress of cutting such a beautiful piece...it came out gorgeous...
I've been looking at mine for months now 😂
I'm going to get at it soon... Thanks for the instructions and lesson
Thank you for the words of encouragement at the 5 min mark sir. I recently added another stepping stone to my 5 mile footpath. Somehow brought me some comfort 🙏
I love your positive outlook and it’s still a beautiful stone.
It is very beautiful opal! Greetings from Poland.
I Like the new video format very much. Great to see Saxon joining in the video making process, he's a young man full of different talents. Good to see the mistakes, its all about the learning, it never stops, no matter what profession/career you undertake in life. You should always be learning. Thanks Justin for sharing this and also to Black Opal Direct for another fantastic video.......until next week.....
Thank you top cat. yes I am glad he is with us. He has great talents
It was nice of the opal to give you a free practice piece. We never stop learning, it's true. It still is a beautiful stone.
Suppose
@@blackopaldirect I appreciate the lesson, each time.
I think it's pretty. $1k nothing to sniff at
Reaching for the stars occasionally means falling back to earth. Showing his vulnerability makes us appreciate the artist even more.
Hi Justin, love your work incredible what you do.
May i ask how best to store rough opal for long periods?
Thank you 🙏
Love your philosophy Justin. Cheers mate!
Beautiful video, beautiful message. Thank you Justin. Ive found myself going back and rewatching alot of older videos or ones ice missed. Your content and the messages you pass on to us all has always been amazing. The video quality has improved with time, but always been such enjoyable content. ❤
You are so welcome, thanks for sharing.
@@AlphaAnton Amen.
Thks for another nice video Justin 👍
even with the mistake u made u turned it around and still made a gorgeous opal. we'll done!!!!😊
hi from ohio and that was the message I tryed to share with you when you took that opal from your son you still got a opal just not what you wanted now you shared this and the one you need to apply this in training your son. nothing but peace and love for your work and experience and this lesson is how you pass it on to them let them ask for advice from you ,lead with an open heart ,and the pain of watching them learn from their mistakes is hard but they learn the same way you do, through growth and experience giving them love and understanding life gets better. still a nice save love your work.
Hi there nice 👍 to see you again 😊❤❤❤very nice pic of stone 😮
Thank you! Cheers!
Was working on a great potential stone last night. Almost double the color bar thickness I usually get. Found 2 cracks while cleaning it up. If I'd had a fortune cookie prior, it would have said, "earrings are in your future"
@@MrSkrilla316 🥰🥰🥰 earrings are fantastic!!
Justin, that was a great learning experience, I think you still have value in opal, and another notch on your belt 🎉🎉🎉
Yeah Maestro!! Let the
journey begin!!! Thanks for
great start to my day!!!❤🙏👍😍😎🌈😁
You are so welcome Glen
Hello Justin
It has become a beautiful stone. Don't get me wrong, but it's encouraging to see that mistakes still happen to you too..Of course I wish you no mistakes😂😂❤❤
greetings from Switzerland
Stone is X $$$$ lesson is priceless
Opal is like family. Sometimes it's full of cracks. Sometimes it's only good under water. Sometimes mistakes happen for the good and sometimes for the bad. Sometimes opal is good in smaller pieces. And sometimes it's good when it is never cut apart. All families are like opal. Some families are greater when left whole, and some are greater when cut apart. It is what it is. Opal cutters have a lot to say about families.
Well said @domesticterror7970! Thank you, Justin, for the video. I love to watch them all, just like I do love the beauty of opals!
You can only do what you know, Mate. It still came out. Cheers!
Justin , Sir , please don't be hard on yourself ! We all make mistakes ! With this being from a new mine , you took a chance ! At least now you have some knowledge of what the Opals from there might pose to be ! Sure a rough lesson learned but still a good lesson for next time !
A beautiful lesson in todays video, I love it
Glad you liked it! I didn't hahaha
I like the unique look of this stone ! Sometimes when the stone has different characteristics across its face it almost feels like it is telling a bit of a story and I feel this is one of those stones! Instead of a picture stone it is a story stone ❤
We do the best we can with the information we have. You had no way of knowing how that stone was going to cut, so don’t be too hard on yourself. ❤
Cut the big one again and make it a square cushion cut! Make the black piece a tear drop and the other piece a triangle! They all will be beautiful in their own way! Catch you on the next. ✌️ 😊
If they were all winners then opal would be cheap.
I'm glad it's a challenge, as it makes the wins so much more sweet ❤
Nice! Before midnight :)
This would be a great piece to add to the next table
A lot of us just settle too. Our habits define us and the bottom line is "Living 'well' is the best revenge" In the now in our neighborhood in our niche and not let the ninnies ruin our outlooks. It's the collection.
I wish I had the experience and the money to play around with a piece of opal like this. Everything I buy is the garbage everyone throws away lol. I get lucky sometimes, but it's mostly so full of sand it could qualify as a Japanese sand garden ha. Keep up the great content Justin and team. Lots of fun learning with you.
Iv just started my opal cutting and its amazing how much of a risk vs reward it is so many opals look nice on the outside until you start grinding away and realise it all can turn pear shaped really fast
I totally agree!
Wow you are human :). I was doubting that. I really like this video not because i enjoy your mistake or result not as good as it could be but because there is a lot to learn here from the cut and your commentary thank you Justin.
Thank you so much 😀
Sorry about that one Justin! Tough opal to read, for sure.
Sure was
Love your videos mate.
I love that you love them 🙏
Still a beautiful gem! 😍
Still turned out great, thanks for showing realistic life, good vid Justin 🤩
I know I asked this before, what would an opal look like if cut like a diamond, you replied it wouldn’t work, however since you’re ok with owning your mistakes, could you please make another one for research and my curiosity, mainly for my curiosity 😅
Forgive me I’m not offering to fund said crazy idea, though I will continue to watch you cut opal, if you don’t accept this challenge then I sentence you to an opal crazy dance, shake it baby like no one’s watching 🕺
haha faceting a gem is for capturing light and color into a gem. Opal already has play of color in it so if you facet an opal light light will diffuse the play of color and weaken it
@@blackopaldirect I’m hearing you, I can’t help wonder what it would look like though!
Its still a beautiful piece and there is still no garauntee that the piece would have come out if you had cut the other way, it probably would because you know your stuff, but there is still an element of doubt.
Very cool thankyou for sharing.
Life has a habit of teaching lessons at the most unexpected times.
One of the takeaways: If you cut and polish a $1000 stone, like it's a $20,000 stone, you learn how to cut a $20,000 stone...
You only learn from mistakes 💙✌️
You did the best you could with the rough you had. It may not be the nicest opal you've ever cut, but it's not horrible. Somebody will want it I'm sure.
Still a nice stone, even if it didn’t quite work out.
Thank you
😎😎😎👍👍👍
Thanks 👍
Love to all y’all! What was that beautiful music playing in your video? I’d love to hear more of it. Who is that? Ok , I watch all your videos ❤ and I’d watch them all again!
I've watched this a couple times and I don't see how you could've done it differently Justin! Ya don't have X-ray vision!
By the way that ended sounds like that loss was pretty significant ur action and voice speak volumes
Thank you Eric
Thank you!
It makes me feel a little better about the gaffs I've made and the ones I have yet to make....
Not sure you ever know for sure what you will find inside a stone. We learn, we carry on!
You dont
It's interesting. On a different stone, you might have been excited to find that lovely opal. But because of all the hope and potential before it was cut, it seems almost a disapointment. I suppose its a lesson in tempering our expectations to. Sometimes its better to prepare for the worse and hope for the best and your more likely to be pleased with the outcome.
It’s always better to be positive in life but yes a little caution helps
Somehow your video made me feel a bit better about an opal tragedy that I endured today.
Completely shattered a really nice 10+ ct white opal. Not a fortune, but still makes me sad :-(
These things happen unfortunately
I long for the day I can be disappointed by a $1000 gem.
I was gifted a beautiful and huge, black Australorp chicken last year. It is an Australian breed of chicken and they are ranked as the most prolific egg layer of any breed.
Her feathers are iridescent blue & green in the sunlight. I named her Opal. 🙂 Her name is so appropriate and it took me a year to name her. Until her name dawned upon me I just called “Big Black Beautiful Gurl”.
The cutters game - It is a lonely game to play!
I don’t see this as a mistake, but rather learning about the Opal from that area. Next time you know more
Its still beautiful😊as always
Thank you! Cheers!
Wait...what???? You have a "signature" opal? Oh! I want that! An opal unlike ANY other!
Here is the gem blackopaldirect.com/product/opal/dark-opal/4-54-ct-dark-opal-15-3x9-2x4-2mm/
Still a pretty nice opal, though. Every one is a story on its own. ❤😊
True that
Appreciate the honesty and the approach.
Thank you
Hey team BOD.
I love all your vids. However this video was like a strobe light changing from camera angle to camera angle. Difficult to watch. The opal is the star of all your vids so concentrating on that is the best feedback I can offer.
Cheers.
I think it's lovely.
I always tell people, you’ll never fail if you don’t give up
True
A good comparison is buying boxes of expensive lures that look great, but the fish won’t eat them.
I’m sure you have had this experience as well mate 😎🇦🇺
Yes with rapala hahah
Hear me out. Now that Halloween is near, it’s cursed opal
Wow didn't see that coming. I thought this stone was going to be real special
Me too
Could you do a break down next time on how much you spent on a beautiful piece like that to how much or how little profit you make just so people can get a better understanding
It is still a very pretty opal.
That was not a mistake. It was the best possible desicion given the information you had. Now you have more information and can make an even better desicion next time.
It's never been about the money mate. Do what you love and be happy with what you have instead of what you don't have bri.
I'd be waking up every night from nightmares where I am cutting the world's most perfect black opal, can't stop myself from making that once last touch over and over, and eventually grind it into nothing! 😂
Sounds like my videos haha
Can you put a blue light to one of your projects?
Can the potch on both sides be taken off, Just to be left with the colour bar? Not this particular opal just in general?
YEs that can be done on the right opal
@@blackopaldirect awh cool!
Still looked pretty to me.
Looks more dendritic than potch like?
Still a good pebble
Im going in😁
Lets both go in hahah
04:54 I like when you talk like Forrest Gump.
What happened to the other small piece?
I am not a risk taker so I can’t imagine how it would feel to have to make the decisions you make when you cut these.
👍👍👍👍
It's cool 😎 to be wrong lol 😆 😂 😅 be happy you tried
Then I must be really really cool
Can't win'em all!
Just try for most of'em!
Nope not for most of them. You mostly see the ones that do well because we scrap many that dont do well
❤❤❤😊
Black Paint and akrakadabra🎉😅
lol
OOPS! How could you have known until you cut the stone?
True
Wasn't a mistake, just really bad luck!
Better luck next time.
😮
Mistake? I'd say misfortune. Besides, the black did nothing on the smaller piece, so who's to say it would have made a nice stone the other way?
Great as always, but I'm not a fan of the camera work today. ❤
I understand