Night Stone Jewelry

Idaho Opal

by Neural on Jun.26, 2009, under Opals

But not what you might expect. Some time ago a friend gave me a couple pieces of low grade Idaho Opal rough. While at his home, I cut one piece into a stone that came out rather nicely, especially since I hand cut it (no dop sticks). The second piece kinda got left out due to time, but I had it laying around and had eventually rounded off the edges so it didn’t chip. Well, my lovely wife wanted me to take the original, give it a higher polish and shape it a little, so she could wire wrap it. The result came out beautiful when she was done wrapping it. She wore it to work, and one of her co-workers wanted one just like it, so I was asked to finish shaping and polishing the second piece, and I believe it came out rather well. Length from top to bottom is about 30mm or so.
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Will post pics of the finished product once she has it wrapped.


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