In this video, I take an opal that I bought for $125 about 6 years ago and work on it by grinding, cutting and polishing. The results are astonishing.
The opal is from Mintabie, SA, Australia. In the video, two Ethiopian opal stones from my last video are given away and two more opals are presented from giveaway in this video!


Table of Contents
00:00:15 – Black Mintabie rough opal parcel
00:00:28 – Examining seam opal
00:00:47 – Exposing the edges
01:00:00 – Viewing edges of seam opal
00:01:27 – Exposing top and bottom of stone
00:02:25 – Viewing top and bottom of stone
00:03:25 – Fully exposed stone
00:05:25 – Ready for shaping
00:06:15 – “Designing” a setting
00:06:45 – Final shaping
00:07:09 – Outtakes
00:08:15 – Opal News ??
00:10:41 – FINAL STONE
00:11:20 – Giveaway winners
00:11:36 – New Giveaway stones
00:11:56 – How to enter Giveaway