What an absolute treat! Cup of tea, the spring rain and you on the wheel releasing inner beauty from every stone your master craftsman hands touch. Life is good today! Thanks for the gift!
When my Dad passed last year I reconnected with Bill, my Dads old fishing buddy. Bill was an opal cutter and machine maker and sadly he too has passed recently.. I’ve since become obsessed with opal… Watching your videos, hearing your passion and seeing these beauties bought to life is wonderful. Thank you 🤗
that would have been a bargain parcel. do more video's like this , with no chat questions like on the live. just watching you work on the stones is enjoyable enough . the longer video's are great , get a beer and some snacks and sit and relax and watch you cut.
For anyone who has been watching your channel for awhile, this was a mini master class in cutting. As you picked up each piece I found myself analyzing the stone thinking…I think I’d do this… then this… and many times that is what happened, but sometimes not! And that was fun too. Each piece was an adventure….and the rapid flow from one to the next was quite engaging and a nice change of format for your viewers….and still we learned so much!!!!! Thanks Justin!!!
Small pieces of the rainbow 🌈 👋💎👍! Thank you Justin for inviting us to this joyful cutting video, so much appreciated! Greetings to you all at BOD 👋❤👍!
OMG ❤ They are all so beautiful and shining - even the tiniest ones! Perfect what mother nature can create! I am not even through with the video and am absolutely flashed! Loooove it! 🥰🥰🥰
Wow ! Just WOW ! That parcel was definitely worth the asking price. Wish I had it. Even if it did cut majority smaller gems, I would imagine the majority of people could afford smaller gems easier than the jumbos. Those super big and super gorgeous black opals are for the folks who HAVE the cash to spend on something like that. Is working folks have to scale it down sometimes lol. Thank you for sharing that with us.
Very relaxing video. Nice chilled music, lots of beautiful colours in those gems. I've watched many of your videos, it's always a pleasure to watch the process, and to see the colours get revealed.
Justin - lovely music but I much prefer your nattering about for the duration of the video. You are incredibly gifted and knowledgeable. I like listening to your comments on each gem. Thank you!
Justin watching you cut and polish these Opals was very enchanting ! I love watching in amazement as the beauty and colors comes out of them ! Thank you Justin for sharing this with me !
It is amazing to see you pick the cut on stones that I never could imagine to cut. There were a few that you totally cut down to a clean surface that didn't look (to my eye) to be there. Your experience speaks volumes.
27:09 wtf is that+ o.o dammmmmn lol so perfevt to cut after the muck was ground off dammmn I love this stuff. Could you have some of these just nonstop cutting rough vids added as extras in the cycle. If you dont have to do anything but an intro and exit with just nonstop cutting i could watch that for hundreds of not thousands of hours
That is what you call experience. Making it look so easy and knowing just how to cut a gem out of something you wouldn't think is hiding a gem like that.
Podes continuar com mais vídeos dentro deste gênero!!!! Tinhas dado um excelente cirurgião com a tua destreza manual,e tens razão o tamanho não diz tudo!
I know its probably a pain, but I would have really liked you to keep talking through the video. I enjoy the way you talk, and giving a little nod to each gem as it comes through would have been extra special! Fantastic work though, as always!
Amazing & Soothing to watch I love 💚 Episodes where you do loads of Small rubs.. so glad you didn't sell that parcel Not many people would of done that justice with your nimble capable fingers & hands.. from such a unassumable bag of chips.. such a pleasure thanks Justin.. 👍👋💚🇬🇧
Quick question, Hey I love this channel been a long time subscriber. But have you ever gotten opals from those Australian tv opal miners . It’s like a reality show following them as they mine opals at their claims.
Hiya Justin, awesome video and I can't wait too see them finished, I hope you show us the finished stones. Because I know they will be the most beautiful when done mate. I hope you have a awesome blessed day mate. Cheers! Cya! 😺🐟 out!
Brilliant, just brilliant....., I mean Opals just Opals...💯🙏💯 Btw, I appreciate your wonderful Opal videos Justin, even though I'm gone for long periods without comments.... Sorry....
Awesome 👌 👏 👍 . At points i thought ,wow taking loads off ...almost too much i thought.. but obviously i was completely wrong lol 😂and you definitely proved that Less is More sometimes...Nothing like watching a craftsman at work...
I normally watch your videos in the morning with a cup of coffee but now with the early upload it’s still evening here so enjoying it now with a nice glass of single malt whisky! Always enjoy your videos a lot Justin! And I’m lucky enough to enjoy looking at some black opal direct opals that I bought for my girlfriend as well.
Oh, how special they all are!! Did you mention the cost of the bag of, I guess I'll call them, loose "rocks," the bag that was at the show then where the bag didn't sell? The total value, at the end, of all the ready-to-mount, finished stones would also be great fun to know, also for us to calculate the difference ourselves!!! (And I guess for us to also have a laugh at all the ppl who apparently just walked past this exemplary "bag of rocks," that was just out there for sale all day long at the show!! OMG!! But, ofc, we have to realize also that some of these folks might have had to curtail their shopping lately, & had to thereby pass up this juicy "bag of rocks," but only for budgetary reasons -- which we all can understand, right??). (Yes, they're not OUR opals, Justin, but we also get INVOLVED with them, after closely following all of your processes & taking in the info you give us too. We also get really excited about the end pay-off & we get really thrilled about it for YOU too!!). 😺 😸 💗
Love the vids and watching weh. I can pay attention long enough. Really like the info audibly. How can I find the Black Opal Direct torch to purchase and ship to me? Hope you are all well :)
When they are so small already I WISH you would leave them with potch and sand just shape the pointed edges off and leave them with the flaws...the potch and sand is what created them. Some should not be worn down to nothing chasing after perfection... Couple pieces were lost from chasing perfection. When they were perfect to begin with. Forgive me for being opinionated. I am enjoying watching its just a few times I am saying woo woo slow down. I just think their is a market for oddly shaped opals. It will make the pieces look natural vs man made.. You are taking too much off.... any how, thank you for sharing.
It looks like Tuscon missed out! Too bad for them. These stones are absolute stunna's mate! The colours are amazing, and that rectangular shape one looked like it had flames in it - WOW!! They're all so beautiful, I can't pick a favourite. One of each, maybe!!? Have a great Easter Justin! 🌈❤️🇭🇲
Something about the noise your machines and grinding make, helps me concentrate. I have you on all day while I work! (more content please...). Brown noise? Opalescent noise??
What a beautiful set of sparkling stones. The colors were beautiful. BTW, I like the short promo clips showing each stone. A minute of beauty. Thanks for sharing the beauty.
I have a bag from Lightening Ridge, that my FIL brought back for me, bless his heart. With the help of the lapidary club, next town over, I'm looking forward to getting into some grinding
Someone missed out. I love watching how deftly you are able to manipulate the stone. They were all beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Ser y'a next time.👍😷⚒
This was special! I wished we could have seen the whole process! Sweet, sweet parcel of beautiful, magical gems! Don't you wish they could all be like that? Catch you on the next. ✌️ 😊
Absolutely gorgeous. I couldn't get to Tuscan. I want a package, well 2 packages. One of stuff to practice on, it's been years since I did any lapidary work. One to take my time on and get some beautiful stones from.
My main goal his getting my hubby back on his feet. The last nursing home he was in. End up causing him to get drunk and green on his toes, and that was his Good foot but he was able to pivot on and get into his wheelchair. Now he can't stand walk talk halfway can see. My baby has been through a lot set this past April and hasn't got everything he needed as far as physical occupational or speech therapy. Sure he's got some therapy here and there but for a whole year at 3 months is all he has gotten. For 9 months without therapy can't really set a person back. Play Justin if you don't mind could you and your family keep us in your prayers tonight and he gets better and his insurance kicks in soon so hopefully he can start getting proper care he needs instead of being in a nursing home for just room and board. I am disabled myself I took care of him as long as I could and to my back gave out. But I still love him and I got to see him everyday I can. We always keep going our prayers every day as well. Good luck on all the opels they look beautiful. Thank Ms. Dory & God bless you and your family
Your talent in finding the best of every grain of color any opal can offer is mind blowing. I can't imagine how strong your hands must be! And your mind must be as sharp as a diamond wheel. Thank you for sharing this lovely video with us. So many beautiful little stones~ I'd give anything to have a little chip with so much beauty in it to gaze into. Heaven must be built with opal. I can't think of anything more beautiful from this earth.
Very cool colors but I'm not a fan of so called ASMR videos. I don't get the defined sensory tingling and so forth. I do enjoy your talking very much. It helps me fall asleep.
The first one you cut in half would make some stunning earrings!! I also thought the one that was very curved like would make a cute moon or boomerang! 😂😂 I love opals. I’ve been obsessed with them since my daughter was born because it’s her birth stone. They are just gorgeous and there is so much variety in them. I hope one day I can bless her with a beautiful genuine opal piece. All I’ve been able to afford are lab grown and it’s just not the same. I love watching your videos, they are very soothing and always has something special to see.
hypnotic video that's worth watching more than once! plus, great camera angle. could really see a lot of the sand you dealt with on these stones. curious: what was your asking price for that parcel when you were in Tucson? 🍻 ✌️🐝➕
Man Justin. They are all so pretty and just so stunning. I wish I had or could afford one of those machines. It makes it look so easy. I've been cutting for 3 yrs in and off. I have literally almost a plate of opel. I have been practicing with other rocks or even some very beautiful yellow or orange stones.. I've made a few pieces of jewelry and I always end up giving them away as a gift to a family member or a friend. I had almost saved up for one last year, but when me and my husband moved into a split floor plan home. Than my daughter and my grandbabies moved in so it made it a lot easier on me & my hubby. Until the worst happened. He has 2 strokes 3 wks apart from each other. First stroke took a half peripheral vision while he was at work. 3 weeks later he had his second massive stroke in her bathroom at home. He got in the hospital he went to AFib and then he went down into Brady and I had to put a pacemaker in him. And now he is in a nursing home and I go see a merry day so my plans are finally getting to cut my opals on something very nice we'll have to pay put on hold for a while but it's okay justin. I'll get one one day. Than hopefully I can show you some of my cut opels and I am extremely done for you to see. They have reds some greens and blues what is about 4 inches long and forged thick is full of rectangular and it has all the colors of the rainbow in it I haven't really checked to see how much it weighs. You would honestly flip over this opel. I have a good friend that gave it and a bunch of raw opel. I have given some of them to my sister's because I love them so. I had promised them when I was young that one day we all would have an opal to own. I was very lucky to have a friend that seen how passionate I was playing with rocks and cutting them into stones. Are the kinds of her heart she wanted me to have them and told me that when I get to him one day I can show them to her to see how I did. Justin my family really loves watching your show we hope you got many more coming soon I learned a lot over the past 3 or 4 years but I still have a lot to learn thanks for listening wish me luck on a new machine one day hopefully soon on my birthday is coming up Thursday 28.
Please so a video showing the polish results and some prices! The community would value it highly
I agree. I look forward to the final polish and values!
What grinding machine do you recommend? Thanks.
What an absolute treat! Cup of tea, the spring rain and you on the wheel releasing inner beauty from every stone your master craftsman hands touch. Life is good today! Thanks for the gift!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi From Canada Deb! What a lovely and fitting tribute to our Justin the Opal Meister! :-) I agree!
@@blackopaldirect when were u in Tucson I would’ve tried to stop by
اتمنى الحصول على واحده مثل هذه الجواهر ... معجب بقناتك جدا واستمتع بمشاهدة ما تقدم
When my Dad passed last year I reconnected with Bill, my Dads old fishing buddy. Bill was an opal cutter and machine maker and sadly he too has passed recently.. I’ve since become obsessed with opal… Watching your videos, hearing your passion and seeing these beauties bought to life is wonderful. Thank you 🤗
Watching you smooth the rough edges of something so small and beautiful with such honor and delicacy, and with your man-hands is so amazing!
All I could do is sit here watching, going wow, Wow, WOW!😅❤❤❤
that would have been a bargain parcel. do more video's like this , with no chat questions like on the live. just watching you work on the stones is enjoyable enough . the longer video's are great , get a beer and some snacks and sit and relax and watch you cut.
For anyone who has been watching your channel for awhile, this was a mini master class in cutting. As you picked up each piece I found myself analyzing the stone thinking…I think I’d do this… then this… and many times that is what happened, but sometimes not! And that was fun too. Each piece was an adventure….and the rapid flow from one to the next was quite engaging and a nice change of format for your viewers….and still we learned so much!!!!! Thanks Justin!!!
Haha welcome
There’s some magical colors in this parcel. I would love to have some of it!
Counting the days until my cabking comes! I’m goin in!
Small pieces of the rainbow 🌈 👋💎👍! Thank you Justin for inviting us to this joyful cutting video, so much appreciated! Greetings to you all at BOD 👋❤👍!
The smokey gem is magical! Dark yet brilliant with hidden flashes of color!
OMG ❤ They are all so beautiful and shining - even the tiniest ones! Perfect what mother nature can create!
I am not even through with the video and am absolutely flashed! Loooove it! 🥰🥰🥰
Wow ! Just WOW !
That parcel was definitely worth the asking price. Wish I had it. Even if it did cut majority smaller gems, I would imagine the majority of people could afford smaller gems easier than the jumbos. Those super big and super gorgeous black opals are for the folks who HAVE the cash to spend on something like that. Is working folks have to scale it down sometimes lol.
Thank you for sharing that with us.
There was many more pieces in it too
Very relaxing video. Nice chilled music, lots of beautiful colours in those gems. I've watched many of your videos, it's always a pleasure to watch the process, and to see the colours get revealed.
Thank you! Cheers!
Justin - lovely music but I much prefer your nattering about for the duration of the video. You are incredibly gifted and knowledgeable. I like listening to your comments on each gem. Thank you!
Justin watching you cut and polish these Opals was very enchanting ! I love watching in amazement as the beauty and colors comes out of them ! Thank you Justin for sharing this with me !
Sooo goooood! Thanks I needed that.
All are beautiful but the Black are absolute crack'n gems !
Love the black opal direct asmr
Never liked asmr but the wheel and your calm voice is like home lol
I could watch this to go to bed!
It is amazing to see you pick the cut on stones that I never could imagine to cut. There were a few that you totally cut down to a clean surface that didn't look (to my eye) to be there. Your experience speaks volumes.
I would pay for a meet, greet, and cutting session with you! I love videos like this. Helps me relax before work :)
I enjoy your craftmanship to turn stones into special Opals. Good Wishes from India. 🧚♂
27:09 wtf is that+ o.o dammmmmn lol so perfevt to cut after the muck was ground off dammmn
I love this stuff. Could you have some of these just nonstop cutting rough vids added as extras in the cycle.
If you dont have to do anything but an intro and exit with just nonstop cutting i could watch that for hundreds of not thousands of hours
That is what you call experience. Making it look so easy and knowing just how to cut a gem out of something you wouldn't think is hiding a gem like that.
I liked the format for these quick small stones. You got a fair bit of work done too 😅
Hey Justin, I see your getting stoned again that reminds me How long you been playing with stones ? ✌️👍♥️😁
Great grinding!
Thanks for the awesome display of nature's beautiful abilities.
That one could have been a swallow tail! A triangle with a flattened heart. Gems cut suggesting butterflies are wonderful!
Watching you cut these opals is at times like watching an F1 driver enter a curve at 200 miles an hour.
Podes continuar com mais vídeos dentro deste gênero!!!!
Tinhas dado um excelente cirurgião com a tua destreza manual,e tens razão o tamanho não diz tudo!
I know its probably a pain, but I would have really liked you to keep talking through the video.
I enjoy the way you talk, and giving a little nod to each gem as it comes through would have been extra special!
Fantastic work though, as always!
Sometimes I just like being in my own thoughts while cutting
I can understand that.
With the smaller stones they are more fiddly and require more focus to get the best cuts.
Take care!
Jarrod Rod Joyce from PELICAN La, 🙏🙏🙏💯👀💩🌾❄️🤝💯🤑💝🤗🤫👍
What a joy watching you work. You master those small gems.
❤ thanks needed this today
Oi oi shipmate🤞🤞for some spectacular gems 🏴☠️🏴☠️😎
Arrrr ya welcome me hearty
Yep pretty good colour/fire in those stories.
Have a ripper Justin!
Have you worked much with the digital brushless rotary yet?
BEAUTIFUL colors!! Call me crazy but I really liked the blue one with the black in it! Thank you for sharing.
This is where years of experience shine. You identify the shape immediately and intuitively.
Joy to watch.
I'm digging the two with web, nice balance and contrast
Beautiful!! Great job and a wonderful video!!
21:46 Would make an amazing tie tack. Beautiful....
Those are some very bright and pretty little stones.
I like the gentle background music.
Just wow!
“Half an hour of me rubbing out..” 😂
This was awesome! Beautiful little stones in the hands of a master! I love watching u work !❤❤
Thank you so much 😀
❤ I am from San Diego California…$ 😅
❤ Beautiful…! Thank you 😅
I mean... how much was that parcel?
I love watching you rub one out😂
Wow someone really missed out on!❤
They're all so beautiful ❤
Some little belters amongst them.
Amazing & Soothing to watch I love 💚
Episodes where you do loads of Small rubs.. so glad you didn't sell that parcel
Not many people would of done that justice with your nimble capable fingers & hands.. from such a unassumable bag of chips.. such a pleasure thanks Justin.. 👍👋💚🇬🇧
The real small ones combined in a ring would be stunning
14:31 Could have make a moon.. 🌙
Wow watching from Ph right now
Quick question, Hey I love this channel been a long time subscriber. But have you ever gotten opals from those Australian tv opal miners . It’s like a reality show following them as they mine opals at their claims.
Check the vid history I think Justin cut one from one of those tv miners you are talking about
Justin cut one of the Young Guns opals a while ago
Gorgeous colors Justin🎉
Hiya Justin, awesome video and I can't wait too see them finished, I hope you show us the finished stones. Because I know they will be the most beautiful when done mate. I hope you have a awesome blessed day mate. Cheers!
Cya! 😺🐟 out!
some are already up on the website and some will be up this week. They all got mixed up together
@@blackopaldirect well, I always loved it when you would show them finished, but I guess you can't now. 😁 I bet they came out beautifully.
That was awesome to
Watch
Brilliant, just brilliant....., I mean Opals just Opals...💯🙏💯
Btw, I appreciate your wonderful Opal videos Justin, even though I'm gone for long periods without comments.... Sorry....
Spectacular as always 😊
Awesome 👌 👏 👍 . At points i thought ,wow taking loads off ...almost too much i thought.. but obviously i was completely wrong lol 😂and you definitely proved that Less is More sometimes...Nothing like watching a craftsman at work...
😊😊😊😊😊
I was feeling the same way.
Thanks a ton
I normally watch your videos in the morning with a cup of coffee but now with the early upload it’s still evening here so enjoying it now with a nice glass of single malt whisky! Always enjoy your videos a lot Justin! And I’m lucky enough to enjoy looking at some black opal direct opals that I bought for my girlfriend as well.
Haha one day I'll join you
Yep those are rippers
Such lovely backing music too.
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Those were really nice and bright lots of color
Thank you! Cheers!
amazing color
Oh, how special they all are!!
Did you mention the cost of the bag of, I guess I'll call them, loose "rocks," the bag that was at the show then where the bag didn't sell?
The total value, at the end, of all the ready-to-mount, finished stones would also be great fun to know, also for us to calculate the difference ourselves!!!
(And I guess for us to also have a laugh at all the ppl who apparently just walked past this exemplary "bag of rocks," that was just out there for sale all day long at the show!! OMG!! But, ofc, we have to realize also that some of these folks might have had to curtail their shopping lately, & had to thereby pass up this juicy "bag of rocks," but only for budgetary reasons -- which we all can understand, right??).
(Yes, they're not OUR opals, Justin, but we also get INVOLVED with them, after closely following all of your processes & taking in the info you give us too. We also get really excited about the end pay-off & we get really thrilled about it for YOU too!!). 😺 😸 💗
Nice round!! Loved just the intrumentals an focus on bringing stone to life.
Love the vids and watching weh. I can pay attention long enough. Really like the info audibly. How can I find the Black Opal Direct torch to purchase and ship to me? Hope you are all well :)
Although I throughly enjoy your comments while you’re grinding these beauties out , this video was very relaxing!! Great video!!! Thank you 🙏
When they are so small already I WISH you would leave them with potch and sand just shape the pointed edges off and leave them with the flaws...the potch and sand is what created them. Some should not be worn down to nothing chasing after perfection... Couple pieces were lost from chasing perfection. When they were perfect to begin with. Forgive me for being opinionated. I am enjoying watching its just a few times I am saying woo woo slow down. I just think their is a market for oddly shaped opals. It will make the pieces look natural vs man made.. You are taking too much off.... any how, thank you for sharing.
It looks like Tuscon missed out! Too bad for them.
These stones are absolute stunna's mate! The colours are amazing, and that rectangular shape one looked like it had flames in it - WOW!! They're all so beautiful, I can't pick a favourite. One of each, maybe!!?
Have a great Easter Justin! 🌈❤️🇭🇲
Such beautiful opals again. Lovely music, And amazing skill. What a great entertainment compared to all the rubbish on TV. Thanks again.
@ 8:25 how much and link please!!?
The small one not the big one you split in half
Wow what a parcel that is just stunning . Love the meditative rubbing with music . Thank you Justin
Amazing 👏
Something about the noise your machines and grinding make, helps me concentrate. I have you on all day while I work! (more content please...). Brown noise? Opalescent noise??
What a beautiful set of sparkling stones. The colors were beautiful.
BTW, I like the short promo clips showing each stone. A minute of beauty. Thanks for sharing the beauty.
Okay Justin, I just noticed how ambidextrous you are!!! A great attribute when you are an opal cutter!!
I have a bag from Lightening Ridge, that my FIL brought back for me, bless his heart. With the help of the lapidary club, next town over, I'm looking forward to getting into some grinding
Someone missed out. I love watching how deftly you are able to manipulate the stone. They were all beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Ser y'a next time.👍😷⚒
This was special! I wished we could have seen the whole process! Sweet, sweet parcel of beautiful, magical gems! Don't you wish they could all be like that? Catch you on the next. ✌️ 😊
Absolutely gorgeous. I couldn't get to Tuscan. I want a package, well 2 packages. One of stuff to practice on, it's been years since I did any lapidary work. One to take my time on and get some beautiful stones from.
In the US, we call them concrete mixers, because cement is one of 4 ingredients, sand, aggregate, water & cement, and concrete is the final product. 😊
Not including inflation, were Australian Opals always relatively high in value, particularly back in Justins fathers early days in the trade?
My main goal his getting my hubby back on his feet. The last nursing home he was in. End up causing him to get drunk and green on his toes, and that was his Good foot but he was able to pivot on and get into his wheelchair. Now he can't stand walk talk halfway can see. My baby has been through a lot set this past April and hasn't got everything he needed as far as physical occupational or speech therapy. Sure he's got some therapy here and there but for a whole year at 3 months is all he has gotten. For 9 months without therapy can't really set a person back. Play Justin if you don't mind could you and your family keep us in your prayers tonight and he gets better and his insurance kicks in soon so hopefully he can start getting proper care he needs instead of being in a nursing home for just room and board. I am disabled myself I took care of him as long as I could and to my back gave out. But I still love him and I got to see him everyday I can. We always keep going our prayers every day as well. Good luck on all the opels they look beautiful. Thank Ms. Dory & God bless you and your family
Your talent in finding the best of every grain of color any opal can offer is mind blowing. I can't imagine how strong your hands must be! And your mind must be as sharp as a diamond wheel. Thank you for sharing this lovely video with us. So many beautiful little stones~ I'd give anything to have a little chip with so much beauty in it to gaze into. Heaven must be built with opal. I can't think of anything more beautiful from this earth.
Very cool colors but I'm not a fan of so called ASMR videos. I don't get the defined sensory tingling and so forth. I do enjoy your talking very much. It helps me fall asleep.
Hi, quick question, well 2. First where can you get a bag of raw opals like that? Second- could they be polished in a rock tumbler?
A beer depending on what time of day it is?? It's ALWAYS five o clock somewhere!!!!
The first one you cut in half would make some stunning earrings!! I also thought the one that was very curved like would make a cute moon or boomerang! 😂😂 I love opals. I’ve been obsessed with them since my daughter was born because it’s her birth stone. They are just gorgeous and there is so much variety in them. I hope one day I can bless her with a beautiful genuine opal piece. All I’ve been able to afford are lab grown and it’s just not the same. I love watching your videos, they are very soothing and always has something special to see.
hypnotic video that's worth watching more than once! plus, great camera angle. could really see a lot of the sand you dealt with on these stones.
curious: what was your asking price for that parcel when you were in Tucson?
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"Watch as I show you how to turn $6000 into $120k in like... An hour or 2."
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Man Justin. They are all so pretty and just so stunning. I wish I had or could afford one of those machines. It makes it look so easy. I've been cutting for 3 yrs in and off. I have literally almost a plate of opel. I have been practicing with other rocks or even some very beautiful yellow or orange stones.. I've made a few pieces of jewelry and I always end up giving them away as a gift to a family member or a friend. I had almost saved up for one last year, but when me and my husband moved into a split floor plan home. Than my daughter and my grandbabies moved in so it made it a lot easier on me & my hubby. Until the worst happened. He has 2 strokes 3 wks apart from each other. First stroke took a half peripheral vision while he was at work. 3 weeks later he had his second massive stroke in her bathroom at home. He got in the hospital he went to AFib and then he went down into Brady and I had to put a pacemaker in him. And now he is in a nursing home and I go see a merry day so my plans are finally getting to cut my opals on something very nice we'll have to pay put on hold for a while but it's okay justin. I'll get one one day. Than hopefully I can show you some of my cut opels and I am extremely done for you to see. They have reds some greens and blues what is about 4 inches long and forged thick is full of rectangular and it has all the colors of the rainbow in it I haven't really checked to see how much it weighs. You would honestly flip over this opel. I have a good friend that gave it and a bunch of raw opel. I have given some of them to my sister's because I love them so. I had promised them when I was young that one day we all would have an opal to own. I was very lucky to have a friend that seen how passionate I was playing with rocks and cutting them into stones. Are the kinds of her heart she wanted me to have them and told me that when I get to him one day I can show them to her to see how I did. Justin my family really loves watching your show we hope you got many more coming soon I learned a lot over the past 3 or 4 years but I still have a lot to learn thanks for listening wish me luck on a new machine one day hopefully soon on my birthday is coming up Thursday 28.
When i get to heaven, i would love to have my flowers in my flowerbed to be made of these beautiful crystal opals! Absolutely stunning!!