Ethiopian Opal Drying. The Slow And Careful Way... Successful! Amazing Welo Opal After Drying!!! — Transcript

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1. 0:00hello ladies and gentlemen so this will
2. 0:01be the start of the drying process
3. 0:04i recently just cut this ethiopian opal
4. 0:07i'll post a link in the top corner as
5. 0:08per usual and maybe in the description
6. 0:10if i remember
7. 0:11and we are going to try out a really
8. 0:14slow drying process
9. 0:16now in order to do that basically what
10. 0:18i'm going to do is seal this
11. 0:19inside a standard ziplock bag
12. 0:23and this is meant to hopefully slow down
13. 0:26the drying and
14. 0:28possibly avoid the stone from cracking
15. 0:33or crazing basically so
16. 0:36wish me luck i'll chuck it in now and
17. 0:38we'll record how it goes
18. 0:41as soon as i see something strange i'll
19. 0:42let you know how long it took
20. 0:44and yeah we'll we'll talk about any
21. 0:47issues we come across
22. 0:48and what we might do in the future to
23. 0:49avoid it if any of you
24. 0:51in the comments can kind of give me some
25. 0:54more suggestions
26. 0:56and ideas i am more than willing to
27. 0:59try out anything anything that pops up
28. 1:01in the comments so
29. 1:02let me know and yeah fingers crossed
30. 1:05let's get into it
31. 1:06okay so here it is t0
32. 1:12beautiful color no cracks no crazing
33. 1:16bottom side slightly yellow
34. 1:21beautiful rolling color let's see how it
35. 1:24goes
36. 1:25and keep an eye on it well this is a
37. 1:27week later
38. 1:28it wasn't really doing much in the bag
39. 1:31for the first few days but now
40. 1:33i've only just taken it out after a week
41. 1:35and it started
42. 1:37this morning going very white so instead
43. 1:40of being
44. 1:42really clear that was fading pretty
45. 1:44quick and the color was coming back
46. 1:45stronger
47. 1:46but now it's even gone white almost to a
48. 1:48kuberpedi kind of white
49. 1:50i don't want to touch it too much
50. 1:52because i don't want my oil the oils
51. 1:53from my fingers to affect it at all
52. 1:56but this is here on the top you can see
53. 1:58that it's still got a little bit of that
54. 2:00yellowish amber glow to it
55. 2:03but it is slowly shifting to white and
56. 2:05the color is becoming
57. 2:06far more vibrant on it if i give it a
58. 2:09quick little flick over the back
59. 2:12the back side is just like before but
60. 2:15just
61. 2:15brighter still got that red and green
62. 2:18playing
63. 2:20playing across the face of it really
64. 2:22interesting
65. 2:23i'm wondering how wide it's going to get
66. 2:26it's got some interesting pattern there
67. 2:29i think for now
68. 2:31i'll keep it in the bag but i might open
69. 2:33the bag up to
70. 2:34atmosphere and just let it go and then
71. 2:36i'm probably going to chuck a desiccant
72. 2:38inside the bag with it and see if i can
73. 2:41speed up the process a bit because it's
74. 2:43definitely very slow
75. 2:45i've seen time lapses over the course of
76. 2:47hours that have moved faster than
77. 2:50putting it in the bag so it's definitely
78. 2:51a great way to slow it down if you're
79. 2:53scared
80. 2:54but now i don't really want to slow it
81. 2:56down anymore i just want to see it
82. 2:58really dry out there's no cracks or
83. 3:00anything that i can see
84. 3:01not even under a loop
85. 3:05so yeah fingers crossed we keep it going
86. 3:08okay now this has been out drying on the
87. 3:11bench
88. 3:11not in the plastic bag now for over a
89. 3:13week
90. 3:14i'm still seeing absolutely no scratches
91. 3:17it is going
92. 3:18a little bit wider on well basically all
93. 3:20around it's still got a bit of an amber
94. 3:23tinge to the
95. 3:24to the actual stone and it's still got a
96. 3:27lot of
97. 3:28beautiful color in it
98. 3:32so it's coming along nicely what i'm
99. 3:33going to do now for the
100. 3:35a couple weeks and then i can finally
101. 3:37release this video
102. 3:38is i've got here a pouch of desiccant
103. 3:43so i'm going to basically have a mini
104. 3:45desiccator in a ziploc bag
105. 3:48and we'll see if we can really suck some
106. 3:50moisture out of it
107. 3:52and yeah after a few weeks it should be
108. 3:54fairly dry i could also
109. 3:55then go further and put it under a
110. 3:57vacuum desiccator which i do have as
111. 3:59well
112. 4:00but we'll see if it needs we'll see if
113. 4:02it needs anything like that
114. 4:04if there's no change in it after a
115. 4:06little while in the
116. 4:08desiccator bag then i don't think i'm
117. 4:10going to bother going
118. 4:11all the way through and vacuuming
119. 4:13putting it in a vacuum chamber
120. 4:15but maybe out of interest i'll do that
121. 4:17at a later date anyway
122. 4:19so yeah it's a beautiful looking stone
123. 4:21so far i don't want to touch it too much
124. 4:24just in case that affects it i really
125. 4:26like that pattern on the bottom
126. 4:28but yeah let's get it in the bag let's
127. 4:30see if we can dry it even further
128. 4:32all right ladies and gentlemen this is
129. 4:33where we'll end this video
130. 4:36so i've had this now in a pouch of
131. 4:38desiccant
132. 4:39well in a ziploc bag with desiccant in
133. 4:41it for quite a while and it doesn't seem
134. 4:44to be changing much more anymore
135. 4:46so i think it's just about dry
136. 4:49i'm can't be 100 certain but you can see
137. 4:52it's definitely become this
138. 4:54kind of it's still got that tinge to it
139. 4:58that warm glow but it has gone very much
140. 5:02white in comparison to what it was and
141. 5:04the color just kind of
142. 5:06it's all over the surface it's very
143. 5:09flashy the back i like
144. 5:10even more than the front
145. 5:14i've washed my hands to make sure
146. 5:15there's no oil on them at all
147. 5:17but have a look at that we've got some
148. 5:20vibrant colors and it just rolls all
149. 5:23over the place
150. 5:25so quite an amazing quite an amazing
151. 5:27piece
152. 5:30it is still fairly see-through so it's
153. 5:33pretty crystalline stuff it hasn't gone
154. 5:35white cooper pd not fully anyway
155. 5:40but look at that it's just got that
156. 5:42still got an amazing foil effect
157. 5:47and yeah beautiful beautiful play
158. 5:50it's it feels almost directional but
159. 5:54it's yeah it's just very it's a very
160. 5:56strange color play compared to
161. 5:58a lot of australian opal it's very
162. 6:01playful but not very
163. 6:02bright from one direction like there's
164. 6:05not
165. 6:06one clear face in it it's kind of
166. 6:08shooting left right and center so
167. 6:10a bit a bit unusual compared to what i'm
168. 6:12used to but
169. 6:14yeah that's it dry with the desiccant i
170. 6:16could
171. 6:17take it a little bit further with a
172. 6:18vacuum desiccator so basically suck the
173. 6:21air and moisture out of it
174. 6:23but that's a little bit extreme and i
175. 6:24don't really want to
176. 6:26break up my first opal so i think we'll
177. 6:29take it easy with this one and keep the
178. 6:30experimentation to a minimum and i'll
179. 6:32have to
180. 6:33carve another piece that i'm not so fond
181. 6:36of
182. 6:37and then i'll start torturing it this
183. 6:39one i think we'll
184. 6:40get away with not being tortured just
185. 6:42because of all that
186. 6:44so yeah that's it for this video and
187. 6:47i'll see in the next one well
188. 6:48i might be working another one of these
189. 6:50or i might be doing a bit more aussie
190. 6:52material i really haven't decided i've
191. 6:53just gone into a
192. 6:55seven day lockdown so i've got heaps of
193. 6:57time on my hands
194. 6:58and yeah i'm not entirely sure how i'm
195. 7:00gonna plan it
196. 7:02but i'll work away and you'll see it
197. 7:05when it comes up so see you then
198. 7:22you