First stone I finished!

[HelloGoodbye]

Wow!  It's so pretty!  Opals are my absolute favorite, I just love them.

[Prideth]

Wow, this is cool!  Is this something you're just teaching yourself?   This would be really neat to learn.  I would have no idea how to go about cutting or setting anything into a necklace or ring, but that would be amaaaazing to learn!  What satisfying work.

Opals are my most favorite stone, and yours looks lovely!

[Karma]

Wow, this is cool!  Is this something you're just teaching yourself?   This would be really neat to learn.  I would have no idea how to go about cutting or setting anything into a necklace or ring, but that would be amaaaazing to learn!  What satisfying work.

Opals are my most favorite stone, and yours looks lovely!

Yup! I had a little guidance from a friend who takes an amazing amount of college courses, and I've done the same basic stuff with my sculptures in the past, so it was a bit of an easier segway.

[pinkkittywinks]

There are some good tutorials on YouTube as well but nothing beats one to one tuition and practice

I'd love to see a picture of your opal set

Love pkw xxx

[lela]

Love stones of the most varied, have a huge collection, and I must tell you to be careful with the form of opal lapidation because depending on the heat it can lose color, since it has a lot of water in its chemical composition and it is relatively fragile, prefer cabochon model instead of diamond, although I like most of your model, as seems more natural, great job.

[ZennaBug]

That is so COOL!!! I would love to try something like that. Definitely neat. And it came out so cute! I like that it's a heart.

[Karma]

Love stones of the most varied, have a huge collection, and I must tell you to be careful with the form of opal lapidation because depending on the heat it can lose color, since it has a lot of water in its chemical composition and it is relatively fragile, prefer cabochon model instead of diamond, although I like most of your model, as seems more natural, great job.

so that's why it lost it's sparkle! I'll keep that in mind.

[Hannah66665]

I love gemstones! It's so tiny and precious, great job!

[Diamond]

Very neat you shall have to show it off all set.

[lela]

Well, opal and a half stone hard work because of that I told you, if you want a stone in lapidation diamond prefer the quartz because hold up better lapidation, well, have some translucent quartz and quartz crystal or green gold and rose quartz, or even citrus and amethyst, hope you show the final result also of opal,