Making a ring from crushed Opal

mick · Post by **mick** » Wed Jan 03, 2018 3:54 am

Enjoy

kjsspot · Post by **kjsspot** » Thu Jan 04, 2018 1:10 am

Beautiful!

crazy8s · Post by **crazy8s** » Thu Jan 04, 2018 12:41 pm

Here's a silly fact, from rebuilding the family walnut ranch we flooded the black walnut burl market in the late 90's. There were 220+ acres of old trees to remove.

kjsspot · Post by **kjsspot** » Thu Jan 04, 2018 1:43 pm

oh wow! Did you save any?

mick · Post by **mick** » Thu Jan 04, 2018 11:08 pm

Ah yes, the great 90s walnut flood, you know, people say it was nuts!

crazy8s · Post by **crazy8s** » Fri Jan 05, 2018 1:10 pm

You should be proud of yourself Mick that was good. :lol:

No burl KJ, black walnut wood yes. David made his self a desk from it, beautiful.

OpalSpectrum · Post by **OpalSpectrum** » Mon Jan 15, 2018 11:27 am

I think this is synthetic opal !
:roll:

btw. I have crushed opal for one of my projects but not sure when I will make it :oops:

Post by **PinkDiamond** » Thu Jan 18, 2018 5:00 am

That was awesome, and I'm on my new computer now so I could actually see it! Thanks mick!!

mick · Post by **mick** » Fri Jan 19, 2018 1:29 am

I dont think its synthetic, Ive looked around, seems its a common technique.

OpalSpectrum · Post by **OpalSpectrum** » Fri Jan 19, 2018 2:59 pm

I'm quite sure it's not natural opal
- he use 2 types of 'synth' opal : dark-semi black & light-semi crystal
- the color of the fire is the same - blue & light aqua green
*if you want the same color of fire only possible way is to crush 1 opal
also he have a lot of crushed opal - 20ct or more ? - to do it you would need 60ct or more of gem grade opal
and I don't think anybody would do it with real opal

that is why the best way is to use small but good quality chips

- with natural opal this ring would cost big $$$
- here just 1 example but there are other types > https://www.aliexpress.com/item/10-piec ... 83032.html

the technique is cool and I've seen it before with other stuff and I don't have problem if he use synthetic opal but he should point that out because most people think this is natural opal and it's cheap !
and I know this from XP because in my country there are many sellers of 'mass produce low quality silver jewelry' and they sell - 'silver jewelry with opal' for $10-$30 without any information that this is fake opal (*technicaly it's not even synthetic opal) - and many people buy this junk and they think this is opal ... and when they see real opal for $100 they think > 'what $100 for the stone - are you crazy ? I can buy jewelry with opal for $30'

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