I admit it I know nothing about working with opals, raw or cooked.
I have someone willing to swap a lot of opal for a couple of pens inlayed with it. These are opals that he found in his folks basement, I guess they were opal hunters at one point in time and they have hundreds of pounds of the stuff. His folks are now in there 70's and he wants to swap some that they gave him for some pens to give back.
I was thinking some type of dark burl with the opal peeking out in stratified layers would be neat. Kinda like the tree grew around it.
So hook me up, Can it be done? is it worth it? and most important How?
Adam
I have someone willing to swap a lot of opal for a couple of pens inlayed with it. These are opals that he found in his folks basement, I guess they were opal hunters at one point in time and they have hundreds of pounds of the stuff. His folks are now in there 70's and he wants to swap some that they gave him for some pens to give back.
I was thinking some type of dark burl with the opal peeking out in stratified layers would be neat. Kinda like the tree grew around it.
So hook me up, Can it be done? is it worth it? and most important How?
Adam