What good is opal with no color
Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2017 4:45 pm
Hi all,
This morning was up early, blue sky, no clouds, and 2400 pictures later, here I am...
Todays photo session best of will be up in different places, i did take the time to take images of a special stone.
Its pretty much worthless on the market, but it really does mean so much... to beginners...
Sometimes colors and angles of play get in the way of having a good foundation
what good is the most expensive stone in the world if its symmetry is off, if a 1/4 mm would have made it perfect clean, the polish is dull
THAT'S what worthless stones are for in the beginning. you get to focus purely on these things sans colors and effects.
want to try being more aggressive?
Want to polish (sorry) your abilities to just peel away some gray and leave black in a piece of Australian potch?
the whole idea is that there are different facets (doh) that come together to make a gemstone a winner, not just the stone
An slightly ill cut and polished level 5 (according to IGS i guess) color play may come out looking more like a 4
Somewhere deep in a stone is an known to exist but never obtainable best most etc cut polish
even if you ever did hit that, you would never know there wasn't better, but you sure would know there was worse
each piece of rough is a potential from a pile of glass bits from being crushed, all the way up to that perfect for that stone best as can be cut polish
your mission is to move it from its raw state and attempt to bring it to that end as close as possible
Size Isnt always the best quality, though often is...
Though shaving off a slightly dead spot to free up color play from every angle, would probably be better.
Any other cutters have examples of such practice or do you throw them out or never bothered to even practice?!??
This morning was up early, blue sky, no clouds, and 2400 pictures later, here I am...
Todays photo session best of will be up in different places, i did take the time to take images of a special stone.
Its pretty much worthless on the market, but it really does mean so much... to beginners...
Sometimes colors and angles of play get in the way of having a good foundation
what good is the most expensive stone in the world if its symmetry is off, if a 1/4 mm would have made it perfect clean, the polish is dull
THAT'S what worthless stones are for in the beginning. you get to focus purely on these things sans colors and effects.
want to try being more aggressive?
Want to polish (sorry) your abilities to just peel away some gray and leave black in a piece of Australian potch?
the whole idea is that there are different facets (doh) that come together to make a gemstone a winner, not just the stone
An slightly ill cut and polished level 5 (according to IGS i guess) color play may come out looking more like a 4
Somewhere deep in a stone is an known to exist but never obtainable best most etc cut polish
even if you ever did hit that, you would never know there wasn't better, but you sure would know there was worse
each piece of rough is a potential from a pile of glass bits from being crushed, all the way up to that perfect for that stone best as can be cut polish
your mission is to move it from its raw state and attempt to bring it to that end as close as possible
Size Isnt always the best quality, though often is...
Though shaving off a slightly dead spot to free up color play from every angle, would probably be better.
Any other cutters have examples of such practice or do you throw them out or never bothered to even practice?!??