STABILIZE Ethiopian Opal So That It WILL NEVER CRACK!! Secret Formula Revealed “Step-By-Step!” — Transcript

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1. 0:00millions of people around the world love
2. 0:03opal and they all want some but is that
3. 0:06possible oh opal is too expensive right
4. 0:09wrong I'm gonna show you why in this
5. 0:13video
6. 0:17this is a cabochon of jelly opal from
7. 0:20meant to be that I bought about 10 years
8. 0:22ago but what is jelly opal anyway well
9. 0:26jelly opal is opal in which the color
10. 0:28seems to float somewhat resembling jelly
11. 0:31if you don't see what I'm talking about
12. 0:33I understand but once you've seen it a
13. 0:35few times you will be able to recognize
14. 0:37it easily jelly opal is not the most
15. 0:40desirable type of opal and if you bought
16. 0:42a piece of expensive vocal expecting it
17. 0:44to be high grade only to find that
18. 0:46you've got jelly opal it's super
19. 0:49undesirable and that's what happened to
20. 0:51me here I paid a lot of money for a
21. 0:53large piece of meant to be seam opal
22. 0:55looking at the edge it looked great to a
23. 0:58relative rookie which I was back then
24. 1:00and it did have Crystal opal on one side
25. 1:03but it was very thin too thin to make a
26. 1:05cabochon out of it so I was left with
27. 1:08jelly opal a lot of it
28. 1:11it now I must admit that this is on the
29. 1:14higher end of the jelly opal Spectrum
30. 1:15it's pretty good but there is some jelly
31. 1:18opal that is truly high grade and it's
32. 1:20worth just as much as high grade Crystal
33. 1:23opal wait a minute this just in from the
34. 1:26opal scientist that Pulitzer opal
35. 1:28University they have determined that
36. 1:30this jelly opal cabochon is to become an
37. 1:33opal Arrowhead
38. 1:35what wonderful news now I agree with the
39. 1:38professor's decision but I'm somewhat
40. 1:40worried about that small crack that I
41. 1:42noticed in my own examination
42. 2:10oh no the two things that you have to
43. 2:13learn to live with when making
44. 2:14arrowheads
45. 2:16breaks and blood
46. 2:49foreign
47. 3:11my best to give opal away but the
48. 3:14problem is shipping no not the cost but
49. 3:17the time let's see 25 minutes for parcel
50. 3:21times 7.9 billion people that that's
51. 3:25about 10 bazillion hours which is really
52. 3:28a bit too long and if Sheila helps well
53. 3:31it'll take twice that long
54. 3:33this is the list of the world's best
55. 3:35Opals Australian's the best but are any
56. 3:38of these actually affordable to the
57. 3:40millions who want them okay I'll put
58. 3:42gills in synthetic opal on there but
59. 3:44it's not opal so it gets eliminated so
60. 3:47that leaves only one shua Province
61. 3:50Ethiopian opal what is it is it any good
62. 3:54well you've been watching it for the
63. 3:56last couple of minutes in the background
64. 3:58and don't let that two dollars per
65. 3:59carrot fool you though I bought this
66. 4:02opal in Tucson a few months ago for less
67. 4:04than a dollar a gram that's 20 cents per
68. 4:07carat okay 20 cents per carat is great
69. 4:10but what's the catch well the catch is
70. 4:14that Ethiopian shoe opal cracks if it's
71. 4:17not kept in water I mean who wants to
72. 4:20carry their opal around in the jar
73. 4:23you could lose a half
74. 4:24well I didn't bring you guys here to see
75. 4:27a bunch of opal cracking you see there's
76. 4:30a way to stabilize your opal so that it
77. 4:32will never crack no water necessary I've
78. 4:36worked on this formula for five years
79. 4:38and today I'm going to stabilize and cut
80. 4:40some sugar opal and I'm going to give
81. 4:42you guys the secret formula just look in
82. 4:45the description in order to stabilize
83. 4:48opal that absorbs water we first need to
84. 4:50remove as much sand as possible if you
85. 4:53can grip a mound of sand sometimes you
86. 4:55can break it off like that pretty nice
87. 4:59here's another one
88. 5:02got it
89. 5:04this doesn't happen very often the sand
90. 5:06has to be removed because it gets in the
91. 5:08way of the stabilization process but as
92. 5:11with all opal most of the sand is
93. 5:13removed by grinding but occasionally you
94. 5:16get one that has so much thick sand that
95. 5:19you can just Slice It Off
96. 5:29that really worked well I really cut off
97. 5:31a lot a lot of sand but now back to the
98. 5:35ground
99. 5:42very Vivid colors stabilization involves
100. 5:45removing all of the water from inside
101. 5:47the opal and replacing it with epoxy
102. 5:49resin and once it's hardened the opal is
103. 5:52almost indestructible now I'm not going
104. 5:54to bore you with the details but here's
105. 5:55about what happens the Opus have been in
106. 5:57water for years so we pour out the water
107. 6:00and replace it with acetone and we have
108. 6:02about 90 acetone we pour that out put in
109. 6:05fresh acetone we repeat this step until
110. 6:07we get 100 acetone after that we add the
111. 6:10epoxy resin that's the basic process but
112. 6:13I'm warning you that this is a somewhat
113. 6:15complicated recipe and if you don't
114. 6:17follow my instructions that I put in the
115. 6:19description you will fail
116. 6:22people have asked me if my stabilization
117. 6:24process will stabilize Ethiopian well-o
118. 6:27open well I'm adding this piece of well
119. 6:29opal to today's run and we will all get
120. 6:32to see if it stabilizes not having to
121. 6:34worry about your wellow opal getting wet
122. 6:37sounds good to me I hope it works
123. 7:03the winner of Taylor the 10.62 carat
124. 7:06matrix opal Arrowhead is eight dogs
125. 7:10the winner of Carlos the 12.54 carat
126. 7:14matrix opal Arrowhead is Leaf finder
127. 7:19and the winner of red the 23.57 carat
128. 7:23dark base Crystal opal cabochon is
129. 7:27my wife
130. 7:29dot is an older opal weighing 10.5
131. 7:31carats up until now she's been quiet and
132. 7:35meek but now that she's stable and
133. 7:37sporting a beautiful pinfire pattern
134. 7:40she's become flamboyant and a little
135. 7:43Annoying at 65.3 carats we have Blaze do
136. 7:47you remember her from my video about
137. 7:49Bubble opal well she still looks great
138. 7:52but is now extremely stable I mean
139. 7:55structurally not necessarily mentally
140. 7:57and she is still the poster child for
141. 8:00bubble opal so Feast your eyes
142. 8:03Willa is an attractive Lively wellow
143. 8:06opal weighing 39.5 carats we thought
144. 8:09that she was just a pretty face but now
145. 8:11she's hardened and ready to rumble but
146. 8:14what's up with the scar makes it look
147. 8:16tough but how did it happen well you may
148. 8:19recall that when you cut Willow opal and
149. 8:21water hidden cracks just show up and
150. 8:24Willa's scar was just a hidden crack
151. 8:26before it was treated you won't be able
152. 8:29to snap that one off very easily you're
153. 8:31gonna have to use a saw at 7.89 carats
154. 8:35Biff is Slender but he's also dangerous
155. 8:37he loves the slash but his specialty is
156. 8:40poking so watch your eyes he's looking
157. 8:43for a good home with one of you guys but
158. 8:46his pet peeve is jello so beware Midge
159. 8:49is an unassuming Arrowhead with big
160. 8:51upside potential whatever that means she
161. 8:54weighs in at 14.25 carats sharp enough
162. 8:58to make a difference and big enough to
163. 9:00make a scene if you win her tie her to
164. 9:03an arrow or you might get an unexpected
165. 9:05surprise these are jelly opal chips
166. 9:08created at the precise moment that Biff
167. 9:10and Midge were born I know you guys like
168. 9:13opal chips so leave a comment and you
169. 9:16may win them I'm sad to report that the
170. 9:18big Opals were a big disappointment how
171. 9:21did this happen what are all those tiny
172. 9:24lines
173. 9:25they're cracks cracks that did not have
174. 9:28enough time to stabilize
175. 9:30you see larger Stones need more time to
176. 9:33harden because epoxy has to penetrate
177. 9:35more deeply before adding epoxy resin
178. 9:37the Opals are filled with acetone the
179. 9:39next day epoxy resin is partially
180. 9:41penetrated a day later it's deeper and
181. 9:43after about three or four days the resin
182. 9:45is completely filled the opal now we
183. 9:47have to harden it we add the hardener
184. 9:49and after a day it is penetrated about a
185. 9:51fourth of the way in after two days it's
186. 9:53further in but because it's partially
187. 9:55hardened hardener has more difficulty
188. 9:57reaching the remaining unhardened resin
189. 9:59now if the opal is too thick hardening
190. 10:01will occur before all the hardener has
191. 10:03gotten to the middle and no more
192. 10:04hardening as possible for those who want
193. 10:06to try the stabilization process I have
194. 10:07a few more things to tell you the rest
195. 10:08of you can go back to watching PewDiePie
196. 10:09first of all I adjusted the formula in
197. 10:10the description for thicker stones but
198. 10:11the only way cycling work is if you keep
199. 10:12it in a very cool environment while it's
200. 10:13hardening I'm talking about 60 degrees
201. 10:14Fahrenheit cooling slows the hardening
202. 10:16process and by cooling it you slow down
203. 10:17the whole process and more partner might
204. 10:18be able to reach the resin in Stones
205. 10:19about buying shovel be very careful the
206. 10:21only way that I can some guarantee that
207. 10:22you'll get the right stuff is if you buy
208. 10:23the gem show from a seller who has it in
209. 10:24tubs of water I would not respond sure
210. 10:25Province opal elsewhere particularly on
211. 10:26eBay do not buy dry Stones try as you
212. 10:27might you will not be able to get the
213. 10:28water inside the opal if it's dry to
214. 10:29begin with do not buy chocolate dark
215. 10:31brown shoe opal is called that and trust
216. 10:32me if it's dark brown sugar opal you're
217. 10:34looking at crack city and I'm not
218. 10:35talking about drugs do not buy shoe opal
219. 10:36there's been soaking in anything with
220. 10:37water on eBay I would not even trust
221. 10:38that some sort of soapy Opals and
222. 10:39mineral oil and you will never get that
223. 10:40stuff out of it the best results happen
224. 10:41when you work has a yellow background
225. 10:42the density of color and sounds with the
226. 10:44clear background is usually not enough
227. 10:44to make a nice thin cabochon that's all
228. 10:46the advice that I have any of the big
229. 10:47gem shows Tucson Denver Las Vegas and
230. 10:48others come to mind the only epoxy that
231. 10:49works for this is what I put in the
232. 10:50description if you buy anything else you
233. 10:52will fail and I'm sick of talking so
234. 10:53goodbye