I arrived home last night after being away for a week to find your parcel on the bench. What a delight to find the opal roughs you sent, I didn’t expect such visible and vibrant colour!! I have to admit this is a new experience for me.
After years as a practicing dentist ( naive about opals and gems) and now what they so call ‘ retired ‘ I miss the hours I spent in the lab casting, grinding and waxing. So I have been looking for some ‘ hobby therapy’ outside of my other interests which will let me utilise those finite hand skills. Opals, I believe, are the answer. Actually, can’t wait to start practicing.
I viewed at the CD last night and, Peter, it is really well compiled and informative, great job!
I still have no idea how I browsed your site, wasn’t even looking for opals/gems, but am extremely thanking I did. Very exciting.
Kieran! Wow, THAT was a really nice plug for http://www.opalmine.com Thanks so much for your kind words. Hope you double your money on the parcel and get some real fun out of cutting it. Dentist eh? Well you are well ahead of most of us in the lapidary scene that’s for sure. You should get into using dremmels as soon as possible. Maybe you have some flexi drive equipment left over from the dental days. Anyway, lets talk more about that. i can send you some special information just for cutting boulder opals. Well Kieran, i wish you were here in Australia right now. I have a mouth full of teeth needing attention after chomping at too many hard lumps of food over the past 50 years or so. Haa. But most other parts of me still work ok. Please contribute more to this forum Kieran and let us know how you are going. Wes, the site manager will probably figure out a way that we can post some pictures here as well so we can see how you are going. Best wishes Kieran! Hey, where do you live? So i don’t have to look up the emails. Lazy Australian
Hi Peter and Cindy,
I arrived home last night after being away for a week to find your parcel on the bench. What a delight to find the opal roughs you sent, I didn’t expect such visible and vibrant colour!! I have to admit this is a new experience for me.
After years as a practicing dentist ( naive about opals and gems) and now what they so call ‘ retired ‘ I miss the hours I spent in the lab casting, grinding and waxing. So I have been looking for some ‘ hobby therapy’ outside of my other interests which will let me utilise those finite hand skills. Opals, I believe, are the answer. Actually, can’t wait to start practicing.
I viewed at the CD last night and, Peter, it is really well compiled and informative, great job!
I still have no idea how I browsed your site, wasn’t even looking for opals/gems, but am extremely thanking I did. Very exciting.
kindest regards
Kieran
Kieran! Wow, THAT was a really nice plug for http://www.opalmine.com Thanks so much for your kind words. Hope you double your money on the parcel and get some real fun out of cutting it. Dentist eh? Well you are well ahead of most of us in the lapidary scene that’s for sure. You should get into using dremmels as soon as possible. Maybe you have some flexi drive equipment left over from the dental days. Anyway, lets talk more about that. i can send you some special information just for cutting boulder opals. Well Kieran, i wish you were here in Australia right now. I have a mouth full of teeth needing attention after chomping at too many hard lumps of food over the past 50 years or so. Haa. But most other parts of me still work ok. Please contribute more to this forum Kieran and let us know how you are going. Wes, the site manager will probably figure out a way that we can post some pictures here as well so we can see how you are going. Best wishes Kieran! Hey, where do you live? So i don’t have to look up the emails. Lazy Australian