AUTOGRAPHED! Within these pages you will successfully learn to cut Opal, step-by-step at your own pace. You will discover how to: Cut your first opal, Orient the color, Cut standard sizes, Make doublets and triplets, Treat matrix opal, Cut Lightning Ridge black, Mexican and Boulder opal, buy rough and much more.
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Even though a short, small format ... a magnitude of information is packed in ... cannot be beaten. -- June Culp Zeitner, Lapidary Journal
If you would like to learn how to cut opal, do use this book. Effective,well written. -- Grahame Brown, Australian Gemmologist
Opal cutting taught in well-made format. A professional job...highly recommended --F. H. Pough, Ph.D., Jewelers Book Club News
If you would like to learn how to cut opal, do use this book. Effective,well written. -- Grahame Brown, Australian Gemmologist
Opal cutting taught in well-made format. A professional job...highly recommended --F. H. Pough, Ph.D., Jewelers Book Club News
About the Author
Paul Downing was inducted into the Rockhound and Lapidary Hall of Fame in December 1998, but his love affair with opal began in 1963 and he admittedly has addicted many others as "dyed in the wool" opalholics.
He is the author of four books on opal, over 20 articles for Lapidary Journal and Rock & Gem magazines, plus numerous professional newsletters. In 1992 and 1993 he received three highly coveted AGTA Cutting Edge awards.
Although now retired from the opal business, he has turned his attention to fly fishing and continues to write articles for various fishing magazines and has published a new book on western fishing.
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Opal information at its best, everything you need to know!!!,
By Christine Howell (Olympia, WA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Opal Cutting Made Easy (Jewelry Crafts) (Paperback)
Paul Downing does a wonderful job of explaining everything you need to know about OPALS. From the simplest "which bulb to use for orientation" to "How to Fix Cracks". The title says it all. Anyone that owns this book can cut a fabulous opal. Information for identifying which way to cut, how to treat and maintain the best fire. Comprehensive charts for sanding grits and polishes. Guidelines for thickness of opals of various sizes. He scoffs at the horror stories and makes identifing and cutting opals so simple. Easy step by step in detail description and graphs to make a masterpiece. Anyone could master the art of opal cutting with this book. Keeps the best fire to be awed instead of in the drain pan. This is a wonderful, must have for anyone interested in opal crafting. "Better to be OPAL LOVER rather than HAIRY LEDTHUMB'S"
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This is the book you want,
By mongopop "mongopop" (Tigard, OR United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Opal Cutting Made Easy (Jewelry Crafts) (Paperback)
if the title interests you. Though it's a short book and could be read in an evening, it is jam-packed with all the information a newbie would want. I certainly did. And, am re-reading it. I can hardly wait to get the advanced opal cutting book.
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hi. I find this book of great help in the industry I'm in its a great teacher. A great book by Paul B. Downing and thank you for signing the book Paul. I will recomend it to everyone who likes cutting opal.
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Opal, the gem of light, contains all the beauties of the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black potch, cutting opal, dop wax, dop stick, opal layer, finished opal, rough opal, opal cutting, matrix opal, opal dealers, orient the stone, opal cutter, boulder opal, quartz cap, solid opal, first opal, crystal opal, clear opal, fire layer, precious opal, flat lap, tile nippers, finished stone, black opal, fire line Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Color Plate, Coober Pedy, Harry Leadthumb, Opal Lover, United States, Finishing The Back New!
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Opal, the gem of light, contains all the beauties of the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black potch, cutting opal, dop wax, dop stick, opal layer, finished opal, rough opal, opal cutting, matrix opal, opal dealers, orient the stone, opal cutter, boulder opal, quartz cap, solid opal, first opal, crystal opal, clear opal, fire layer, precious opal, flat lap, tile nippers, finished stone, black opal, fire line Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Color Plate, Coober Pedy, Harry Leadthumb, Opal Lover, United States, Finishing The Back New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Opal Identification and Value by Paul B. Downing in Back Matter
- Opal Adventures by Paul B. Downing on 4 pages
- Opal: Advanced Cutting & Setting by Paul B. Downing in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Lost-Wax Casting: Old, New, and Inexpensive Methods by Fred R. Sias Jr. on page 46
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