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Guide to Cutting and Orientating Black Opal — Video  
A Comprehensive Guide to Cutting and Orientating Black Opal by Greg Pardey


What do you get?

A broadcast quality 1 hour 53 minutes video showing 'over the shoulder' detail. You could not see more on how to cut a black opal nobby from start to finish even if you were in the workshop. Also on the tape- how to cut a doublet and triplet black opal. Some of the footage is even in slow motion.The same methods can be employed for white and some boulder opal.

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Testamonial

The book and video set has sold out only the video and book are is still available seperatley
Check out the companion book from Greg Pardy also available on this site.

This is a bit close to home, but true.

My son, aged 10 1/2, had to go into hospital a couple of months ago. It was nothing too serious. What should I give him for being good? I had one video and book left from an earlier shipment. I know this sounds stingy. My boy was sharing the room after the operation with another little boy about the same age. So in I walk,"Hello, how are you? Here's something for you", I say. Luckily there was a video machine there. In goes the video tape and on with the show. My son had watched me at home before but as the flick continued the other boy started in wanting  to know more all the way through. My son had never seen what can be done with a rock before. He went away with the bug.
A couple of weeks later my son and I went to a gem show. With his own money, my son bought some cast settings . Asking what he wanted them for, he said that the settings were for the opals he was going to cut.You guessed it! He had gone through the buckets of rough I have and found what he thought was value for money. (He did offer to pay for any thing) Then goes back up stairs and watches the video. He goes up and down the stairs a couple of times and Hey. presto, gifts for the special grannies for their respective birthdays.

Don't be surprised to see him here in the next year or two with his own stones.

If he can do it, so can you.


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