My Opal Journey: stone 181- Gotta love it when it all works out! 

Ooh, these are lovely! It's hard to believe nature makes these things.

The fire of that blue at 9:48 is stunning!

Yet another great job and beautiful colours TOG !!

I enjoyed your presentation and like the "Good - Bad - and the Ugly identifying tiers. Beautiful stone too!

Hey, beautiful stone. You do nice work. Thank you for sharing 😊

After watching this, yes, you are the Opal Guy 😊

Hey Don, I've got some important feedback for you! I really love how you have 'developed' your own way of showing each opal. From rough to finished, then the good, bad and ugly; while numbering them in case you make multiple videos of one stone. It's really cool and they can be discussed and/or compared amongst themselves at later points. These can be compared in many other ways, too. For instance, Australian vs. African, or stones from different places in one area. These stats can be looked at by many different data points to show if there is a real difference between stones. Cool! 😎

G’day Don, you’ve done a fantastic job on the rectangle cushion cut and polish, the wonky one has a good polish 🤣👍, it happens more easily with smaller stones. Cheers.

Nice shape and color!!

Ok. Just got the notification, immediately after I sent comment on colour. What a beautiful stone. Try not to outgrow your hat, after this lovely gem!!!! LOL. Can't wait for the video, tomorrow. 😊

Great work and nice opal! 🤘🪨⚒️

Nice Lil stone

I just went back and watched the video. At the beginning, there was blue pinfire (which is what I think it's called); flashes of brilliant blues out of nowhere! Just gorgeous to me! Overall, I think you could sell them at $125 to $150 for the set. I'm adding a few extra dollars because of all the extra colors when you turned them at the end and for the stone being from Lightning Ridge (if it's true). Although the African ones you get have a ton more color and larger carat sizes, I had no idea that those rich opal mines produced them. It was only until I joined and started watching your channel. I do learn something new every day! 😱 Now, where did I store my extra brain cells to store this knowledge? Oh! I forgot! Maybe I stored those "remembrance" brain cells with them! 😜🫣🙄🤣 It was great seeing everyone in chat! I'm so sorry that I was late for the party! 😭 Thanks for sharing your stone 181's journey, Don! Two beautiful stones with a lot of class, my friend! 😉 Blessings from Alabama ❤️