Growing Gemstones Growing a real opal at home and we cut it!
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- Growing a real opal into a cuttable gemstone!!!!
Embark on a journey a year in the making as we unveil the complete process of growing opals from scratch and transforming them into breathtaking gemstones! In this captivating video, we'll guide you through every step of the mesmerizing journey, offering valuable insights and expert tips along the way.
Whether you're a passionate opal enthusiast or a curious beginner, this video offers a comprehensive guide to both opal cultivation and cabbing techniques. Get ready to be inspired and amazed as we explore the captivating world of opal growth and transformation.
Join us on this extraordinary journey and discover the magic of growing opals into exquisite gemstones. Don't miss out on this immersive experience - watch now and unlock the secrets of opal cultivation and cabbing! Don't Try This at home!
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Wow, I can't believe I'm only stumbling on this video now. Really excellent job.
WOW. Wow wow wow. I'm so impressed. I mean, the lack of PPE scares me a little, nanoparticles are bad for you as is the TEOS, especially breathing it in. But your opal results are fricken amazing!!!!!!!!! I'm stunned. Awesome job.
That was a really neat trick and the final product looked good and easy to finish I think it has its place lots of people just want something that looks good so synthetics do fill a niche they look good costs is lower and can be made at home if you take both to a market your chances of a profitable day are greater very nice video
I love opals I have mined and lab grown and the one you created is such high quality that I might actually give this a go, cant wait to see your future creations! Subbed.
Thanka for watching appreciate it.
Thanks for showing the process! A few years ago i was looking for any info on how to grow opals and there was very little except for a few scientific papers, and vague information about Gilson opals. I might actually give this a go at some point
I really excited for part two I know it would be great.
Absolutely stunning!!!
wow all that hard work really paid off.
Amazing video. Your lab create that opal was amazing. Great job very entertaining.
That is absolutely stunning. Fantabulous work.
Amazing job growing opal you guys are the bomb
Thank You appreciate the support.
That's really cool!!!!
Thats pretty cool, so pretty
Thanks for watching!!
Great job, good green color
what a cab
Thanks Tom
I would buy this. This look so much better that that oher syntetic opal i bought .. you did such an amazing job and it looks really good. I would set this in gold.
Thanks for watching!!
Try sonicating the mix when pouring in the TEOS to get maybe violet.
OUTSTANDING!!!
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This is so cool! Thank you for sharing, and thank you for being you!
Thanks so much for watching appreciate it.
Just re-watched the video. Then Dr. Frankenstein would’ve been
Proud. Lol
Stunning 😍
Outstanding 👍🏼 congratulations 🎉
Amazing
Amazing work..!!!
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What a great accomplishment, whatever else happens
That’s really cool
great result!
wow, that is amazing!
Thanks for watching
Fantastic.
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BEAUTIFUL
Thank you! 😊
Thanks for sharing your process and progress. Good thing there is plenty of opals naturally occurring to be mined still. It does take time and money with lots of people looking which is not the case now.
Thanks resort appreciate all your support love to hear your opinions and all your opal knowledge.
Very cool
That is a beautiful stone
Great job! I am interested in how you made it solid, but I presume that it is your secret. If I were going to try to solidify it, I would put the mixture in a slow-curing epoxy. Congrats! dp
Thanks, dp appreciate it! working on follow up video trying the epoxy method to create the black having a few issues dyeing the actual silica waiting on more to settle. The silica replacement fill will also show in a future video. Thanks again love your videos watched everyone of them.
You’re the expert. How can you dye silica? (Don’t answer!). I guess you must mean dyeing the background. You’ll get it. I would probably have worked on the opal synthesis myself if I had the room. (Don’t get me started!). I look forward to see what you can do.
@@PulitzerOpal dyeing the epoxy
Yery nice.
cure them under heat and pressure when the silica solution is at varying consistencies
I just sent my husband a list of things I need to make opal and his reaction was either "oh cool" or "uh oh". Haha either way I'm shopping for supplies!
Love it!!
A duel edged sword of sorts. I am amazed that you could grow an opal as beautiful as that one and the converse is we figured out how to circumvent nature and grow an opal. We are no longer amazed at nature. Onward through science!
I say often, nothing is sacred anymore
I'd disagree, with increased science gives us a better understanding.
I hope you are selling them and earning a small fortune. Go for it!
I wonder if you can buy Si nano spheres? I don't have the lab at home.
@@DrBretPalmer I totally agree but now we will wonder if that opal necklace I bought was real! Amazon has the nano-spheres!
“Oh, so Mother Nature needs a favour? Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival and now she wants to quit because she’s losing. Well I say ‘hard cheese.’”
-Montgomery Burns
@@joker_storm2232 Oh boy,do you have a lot to learn. There is no beating mother nature! Sure, you can win an occasional skirmish but she will be here well after man has come and gone. She wins the game!
You need to make a larger piece to then slice it down the same direction as the colour, and polish that face instead of the top that you've done here.
It would look so much more natural. You can see it when you hold this one after polishing. Or as a test cut this down the middle so you have 2 semicircle stones and polish the cut surface.
I hope that makes sense
Will try that for sure.
Lol i think ill just go buy a mining claim 😂
Did it smell plasticey when you were grinding it?
No, its silica no binder
Are the temps C or F?
F but on the stirrer I just convert to F
Do you sell this synthetic cab? Would love to own it or one like it? ❤
I do have a few for sale will send an Email when I get some time Thanks You
@@GlobalProspecting Brilliant thank you!!
That's a truly amazing opal you grew. It got prettier as you cut and polished it. You must be over the moon about how it turned out, congratulations!
I am absolutely speechless. That was by far one of the most fascinating videos I've seen in a long time. I can't even bend my mind around all the work and research you had to do to accomplish that. Unbelievable work, bravo!!!
Thank You Tim
Is it possible to add a little cremation ashes to this process.
That could be done for sure super great idea
Do you think you could make one for me?
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from 1:20 i can hear your voice only on my right ear. not very pleasant. maybe fix that for the next time
I just lost my high
That is awesome! I didn't expect it to be anywhere as good as it is!
Amazing job! It was definitely worth the wait!
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Thanks for watching!!
Where can we buy your synthetic opal? I want some for my jewelry! Shared this video on my Facebook feed, I think the work you guys put into this year-long adventure needs a lot more praise. Thanks for all your hard work
Hey Charlie gives me a few more weeks I have a lot of jars settling right now when they dry, I can cure we can sell you some for sure if you want to send us an email. I'm messing with the settling process on some to see if I can change the patterns.
great colours congrats man
Thanks PK so glade your feeling beeter
@@GlobalProspecting thanks mate
Good experiment
WOW LOVE the colors
Best Synthetic I’ve ever seen hands down
Thanks locally
nice work looks awesome
That is awesome! Beautiful stone, even if it is lab created. Quite the set up you've got there!
Very neat! Does it cut more like a hard matrix or softer crystal opal?
Softer crystal for sure.
It's amazing we can make something in months that takes millions of years to form . I'll always stick with the earth stones but this is cool to see and pretty👍
Thank you Jenny
This is cool
Amazing job growing opal your the bomb
I really like what you're doing here.
You are decoding some of the mystery of the Gilson opal and the Bello opal
I suspect tha ift you use spheres of just one color, and condense that, and sinter that, the color could end up much more intense.
Because the spheres will line up better if they are of the same size.
When you mix colors together, you're ending up with white, because white is mixture of all colors, and you don't want white.
I would be curious to see what happened if you took a piece of black potch, cut it into a perfect cabochon, and then deposit some of the synthetic opal on top. Maybe just 1/10 of a millimeter would be sufficient to get brilliant color.
You could also do the same with a perfectly cut piece of black obsidian.
I look forward to the future videos on this topic. I'm sure you're going to make great progress.
Note: You can throw your US clad change into Virgin Valley Bentonite opal wash muddy water for a couple days & it will be plated in a thin refractive layer. Looks like the prismatic effect of desert glass sheen. I always did my quarters & dimes for change before i went to gem shows.
Thanks for the ideas will definitely put them to use.
Very cool
Cringing watching this. I appreciate the chemistry skills involved, and the fact you can replicate an opal.
The negative is that too many unscrupulous greedy ppl will sell this as legitimate opal for an inflated price once it leaves your hands.
Extremely bad for the opal industry imo
That horse left the barn years ago which makes natural & untreated the bar to "Gem".
Welcome to Earth, did you just get here?
@whatdudeokman6481 facts my friend.
It doesn't really work like that, synthetic opals are actually very different from real ones and although still beautiful, can be told apart very easily. We've been able to produce synthetic opals for decades but fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how you look at it) they cannot really fool anyone into thinking they are real unless the buyer has absolutely no idea what they are looking at and in which case should not be buying gemstones.