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    Default Opal cutting

    Hi,
    just thought you'd like to see some opals I've cut from rough...

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    I find cutting these really therapeutic!

    Pusscat

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    I like the boulder opals best, they're more mysterious I think.

    I don't use opals that much because they are so pricey and once started on a ring, or a pendant, I get asked for the whole suite.

    Congratulations on your photography too. No phone used here. Dennis.

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    Cheers Dennis...
    Photography of opals can be a pain!

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    nice stones is that QLD boulder opal?

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    Koroit...the first 2 are of a Coober Pedy stone, the blue with green sparkles is a lightning ridge.

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    thanks can be hard to tell the difference from a photo

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    I love those windows of colour and the veins of flashes like lightning that run as you turn the stone.

    The coober pedy stone has a lovely rolling flash to it. Not across the whole stone but but the colour goes from yellow through to red.

    It starts off green with yellow, then can have a bit of orange to it all in one views you can see, then changes to only red. On some views it has the green, yellow orange and blue as well.

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