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Fire Opal - A tragedy (media0.giphy.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Crylos@lemmy.world to c/faceting@lemmy.world
 

So, now that I'm cutting again, I decided to dig through my rough and see what I could do with a piece of fire opal. The piece didn't have a lot of fire, but I wanted to have a go at it.

Overall everything went great, good solid cut, meet points and polish. Worked to take it off the dop an an unknown flaw clipped off one edge of the stone. 😱 😭

Needless to say that really pissed me off.

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[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Aww so pretty I would still wear 10/10