Congrats to the winners. Something you don't know is that I love opals more than diamonds.

@angelfrankenfine

2 жыл бұрын

same. nothing even comes close! I used to live in Alaska and opal reminds me so much of the aurora borealis. beautiful

Wonderful video as always, gorgeous stones! Fun fact, infants have almost 100 more bones than adults do; a bunch of them merge together over time. I think that's pretty neat

Zuck is absolutley wild lol. Did you know that Opalholism is often hereditary? It is passed down from uncle to nephew in multigenerational families. Guess that means the rumors are true, you must be my uncle. Right? - Nephew

@janetross1900

2 жыл бұрын

My Dad, how I miss him, kept a little vile of several types of opal in some sort of solution, (water or oil?) in the top drawer of his dresser. He showed it to me a few times and told me the types of opals that they were. I was only about six years old but I was mesmerized and smitten with them. Opal is also my birthstone. Every once in a while I would take them out and look at them. When I was a teenager he bought an opal and worked on it to make an odd shaped pendant for me. We had so many things in common. I miss that old dude❣️

Here is something you don’t know my joy on the internet: Life is breath making harmonics that come to be and pass in awareness of time in lasting duration. And I like you but that you already know. Great video! Especially how your self confidence allows you to let Zuck mess around in your place. Awesome. Thanks and looking forward to your next cut. Bye Rose Kohn

@RoosKohn

2 жыл бұрын

@@PulitzerOpal I’m Rosie from Amsterdam. My stepfather is from nyc but he is a Greenwald

Thanks for the demo Doc

Hats off to your visual graphics department! Really loving those informative graphics 😀😃🙂

Those earrings are going to be fire! I love your commentary while u work. It's the main reason I watch every video. Keep up the great work!

That's a beautiful piece you're worked on.

You are great man with great sense of humor, really like to watch your videos - keep it up!

OMGG! "Opalholism" Hello...I am an Opalholic...! When I lived in Honduras as a child, It was raining one afternoon and as I sat on the porch near the edge where I could watch the rain drip off the roof of our house, The sunlight was at just the right angle and it shone into the dirt where the rainwater was gathering and I immediately saw a huge flash of Bright Red and Green. I hopped down from the porch and picked it up. It was a Beauty! Honduran Fire Opal! about 20mm all the way around. Not very large but not just a tiny spec either. I gave it to my older brother to hold onto for me, and he still has it packed away in his jewelry box. Gonna get it back as soon as we move. I can't wait! But that is the one and only time in my life that I can say that I found an opal. I was 10 yrs old when I found it and knew nothing about gem hunting so I never thought to dig in the same spot to look for more. Wish I could go back there now and look for them. knowing what I know now. Lol!

Wow, loved all those pictures at the end, like opals, colourful.

Thanks, great vid! Funny as always!

Great video again!

Awesome results especially that last stone, love that broadflash!

Don’t change a thing my love. I always get a laugh when I watch your videos 😁😁😁

I turned my friend and fellow opal enthusiast onto your channel. I know that he will enjoy your content and sense of humor as much as I do. :)

@sarahfisher6801

2 жыл бұрын

@@PulitzerOpal Oh he would definitely take it if I offered, lol. (Not meant to sound as dirty aqs it did, haha.)

Great looking Opel

I'm loving your videos..........hands down this is my favorite gem channel of all time.

Once you fall in love with gemstones it never let's you go. I can tell she's got a hold on you too. Thanks for sharing!

Fun to watch!

once again another very entertaining and enjoyable video with some beautiful opal..

Just found your videos. Excited to learn how to work opals.

I bet you didn't know tomorrow is my birthday 🤣😎 Love the channel! Hope 2022 brings you some epic opal

Zowie! That's some gorgeous opal! That arrowhead is a stunner too! Something you may not know is how hard I laughed at Zuck flailing out in front of Sheila!

When my kid gets old enough, i will show her all your videos. She will excell in life!

I think it's great how you communicate honestly about your stones. The one black stone definitely had a bit less color than the other one but I'm glad you kept them the same size instead of paring the better one down to make a smaller, more colorful pair. Also, the longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

Those are very nice keep up the good work love watching your channel!

Another wonderful video. You might not know that I am going to attend the Tucson show and look forward to seeing other Opal enthusiasts. Thanks for sharing your videos.

Thx. What a lovey stone. And those earring were amazing I know red is nice but I do love the green 🤩

Love your content brother

That's some vivid red and purple in the big stone 👍

Kool as mate 👍

This was your greatest video lol The Opal police bit actually killed me

@theZCAllen

2 жыл бұрын

​@@PulitzerOpal thank you, Opal-sama excuse me, I meant colonel Opal-sama!

i think you [don't know ] that you inspire me as a beginner cutter mate keep it up

Wow... Thats awesome...

I sure am glad you put that warning on this video.

I love your channel!

Love Ridge material and the vast differences. Light and dark such an amazing stone. Largest black opal nobbie I've cut started at just over 200 carats. Such a pleasure to work with a large peice like that.

@irishrowland9308

Жыл бұрын

I bet y’all didn’t know opal is my birth stone and tonight I started getting opalholism, and dude your funny as hell and I could just listen to you talk random shit without video. Keep up the good content man

Those will be some beautiful earrings great video as always

Another fantastic video! I'll bet you didn't know that Les Paul invented the multitrack recorder

THEY'RE ALL SO BEAUTIFUL, COL.

Really look forward to seeing your videos. Learn something each time and get some good laughs. As an aside, I’m a big fan of 53 frogs. Great rough opal.

Thank you as always I can't for the work done at Pulitzer Opal God Bless the show .

I love watching your videos. Good comedy with the amazing opals… I live in Arizona and will be attending the Tucson show for sure.

Colonel u are a genius. This video is a masterpiece. words will NEVER be able to explain what I am feeling right now while watching these video so i Will stop trying to explain with words now because words will never work.

Absolutely amazing colour, I used to do lapidary in Orange years ago and won an award for their 50th anniversary they still have it going just not as easy to get there these days since covid hit would be great to get back into it

@LaurentiusTriarius

2 жыл бұрын

Get to it lol. I never won an award but if I sell something it get some sort of seal of approval. That's ok to me 😊

Lovely arrowhead!

great stuff

Love your opals and your work. I am fan of 53 frogs too and I have about 20 tiny opals started(mostly sanded all by hand with sandpaper) because that's what I do. I make jewelry too. Also love your crazy sense of humor. Lol

Beautiful Opals! You don't know where I was born! 😉

Your one funny dude love your videos keep em coming

You could do a great Tony Robbins impression. Beautiful stones. Thanks so much.

It's for a lady with a birthmark on one side of her face, if she put the best opal earring on that side everyone's only taking notes of the beautiful opal! You're a genius.

@karenstoddart2197

2 жыл бұрын

thats Me!

Enjoyed your videos and you are funny too!

Great channel you are very very knowledgeable thanks for this channel im learning a whole lot on here 🎉

@PulitzerOpal

9 ай бұрын

I'm thrilled to hear that you're learning a lot and enjoying the channel! Your kind words mean a lot. If you haven't yet, don't forget to subscribe and hit the like button to not only keep learning but also enhance your chances of winning some beautiful opals. Thanks for being here!

Here is something I bet you didn’t know, the ore carrier William A. Irvin, finished in 1938 was one of, if not the, first ship on the Great Lakes to have storm tunnels. Storm tunnels are tunnels that run the length of the ship below deck level but above the ballast tanks. Before this was added to ships, sailors would have to walk on deck from one end of the ship to the other during storms, barely connected to the ship via a safety line running from bow to stern. It was not uncommon for them to be washed overboard, and rarely found afterwords. She was also one of the first Great Lakes ships to use steam turbines. She was originally designed for triple expansion engines, but during the build they decided to use the new turbines, which resulted in a large wasted open space in the engine room. Something few working ships have.

@MrXxz368

Жыл бұрын

Cool cool

I got a headache again from rolling my eyes, yet I cannot stay away from your videos! As a nerdy rock child in Illinois, my favorite place to go (besides the Museum of Science and Industry), was the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art...

Sweet as candy!

Those are beautiful stone 😊😊

Love watching your content, and something you don’t know would be I started polishing opal because of you, so my wife thanks you. Lol

@LaurentiusTriarius

2 жыл бұрын

You're a generous man. I'm buying her the most beautiful, chrome spinels, spectacular alexandrites and pinky morganites so she leaves my opal alone... You gotta have options. Labradorite and quartz will do if you're on a budget btw

@oneshotme

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure she loves that you did!!

So gorgeous !

Another great video with amazing opal! Something you might not know is adding a bit of coffee to chocolate cake batter enhances the chocolate flavor. ✨

just found your channel by watching a gold hunting show glad i did nice work on pulling out the color

Awe yes new video

Enjoy the videos very much. Did you know we used to find arrowheads near Livingston Tx as a kid in the 70’s.

Did you know I live in Michigan? Well I do. I also think your channel is great. Thanks!

Gorgeous arrowhead. Here's a fact you may not know: here in Washington State we have s stone not found anywhere else. It's called the Ellensburg Blue Agate. It ranges from almost a cornflower blue to a pale-ish blue, and it's found only in the Ellensburg area.

beautiful

love your content! hoping to start collecting opal! Something you might not know is on wildfires in Australia can be spread around by hawks making it the only other known species to use fire.

@LaurentiusTriarius

2 жыл бұрын

It's easy to collect (cheaper) uncut specimens or polished freeforms often even more interesting from a collector's perspective than standard jewelry cuts.

Colonel, thanks for explaining why ears are on opposite sides of the head. That's one mystery solved!

New subscriber, and i'm just hooked.

You rhymed "The color bar Doesn't go this far" and Hopper is a Love you long time cat. Hysterical 🤣

Very cool I live in Canada bet you didn’t know lol thanks for sharing good sir 👍🏻👍🏻

Just beautiful! Entering .... something you don't know would be my middle name, lol.

Nice video did you know you were the first person I watched on opals thanks

I sat thru a 5+ min ad on this video of Ruby Falls and it was beautiful. I had been to Chattanooga as a kid but never went to Ruby Falls. We have Linville Caverns which are amazing but different and have blind fish, stalactites and stalagmites. Anyway you did it again, beautiful Opals. 💜

@Suehuskins

2 жыл бұрын

@@PulitzerOpal omg my father use to enjoy making us scream by driving close to the edge of mountain cliffs. You were lucky.

Great video brother, bet you didn’t know that. Well done. Mark H. Las Vegas, Bali

Did you know that channels like yours, Black Opal Direct, Roy’s Opal and Opal Mills all taught me about this wonderful hobby?

Entertaining as always! BTW competitive art used to be an Olympic event

Great work!! You didn't know i love opal with a thick backing of caramel potch! Also i have a small collection of arrowheads, but no opal arrowheads! Keep up the great work! Hi Sheela!! Wink wink! Lol

I am binge watching again today 😂

I found a beautiful black opal as I did my yard work. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my whole life. This opal will blind your eye's. It's like neon light's of every color of the rainbow in it but it blinded me almost all day long. I agree if you have one put sunglasses on first before you look at it. God bless you and thank you for your awesome podcasts!

These opals are magical. Period

Thanks for the heads up and the link! I went the a jewelry store today to see what opal they had and I think it was synthetic. It was all so plain! ...it seemed overpriced for being so plain. Fun fact; Utah (US), produces more rubber chickens that any other place on Earth! Remember that.

Oooh I love when they turn out so red. I love my solid pip gems. Some are insaneeee

Great work as always, that is some beautiful color. You may not know that opal can be created as a liquid- charged silica spheres suspended in water display the same play-of-color effect. I've made vials of that myself, it's quite pretty!

@brandonweller4341

2 жыл бұрын

@@PulitzerOpal I used commercially available prefabricated silica microspheres generated from teos. It's as simple as dissolving them in H2O with an ultrasound bath and ion exchange resin, but you can do an additional step to match the refractive index of the solution to silica and produce an optically clear vial (akin to a crystal opal vs a white opal). Here's a video of a different group's results kzread.info/dash/bejne/pKqCz6pyZsfXcdo.html

Been watching for about a year , nice opal arrowhead . Would like to have one of those added to my artifact collection .

Absolutely love those earrings! Amazing color! I bet you didn't know that my arm is exactly 12" from the inside of my wrist to the inside of my elbow! Definitely need to know!😋😉

Great video as usual! The something you may not know I'm an Opaholic! I said it out loud! I need an opal fix soon!!😂😂😂

sheila is my long lost sister, we parted company about two days ago. i miss her. when we walked to school as kids she always wanted to be carried and would never hold my hand while crossing the road.

@gchammertime1557

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Colonel it's tegrity, lemme know how to contact u, or give u mailing address. Thanks. U the best.

@gchammertime1557

2 жыл бұрын

@@PulitzerOpal u the man Colonel, I emailed u and my email address is very similar to my you tube name. Anxious to hear from ya. Thanks again.

Love your videos!!👍😂😁 Wombats have square poop!😳😳😂😂

Need more videos love watching them nice stones I would like to see some more on the arrow heads but I enjoy all your vids keep cutting I keep watching later admiral

Again a wonderful video. Wow. Going from the green of the Amazon rain forest to the colours of the cosmos. Colonel Sir. I salute you. As advised I watched Too Too boy and you may not know Too Too Boy is Right handed. Your videos are great instrumental and comic. Thank you.

You don’t know that I have 8 of the most wonderful grandchildren ever!! You also don’t know that I love your channel!

You don't know how much I would love to have this arrowhead.

@ricklewis4377

2 жыл бұрын

@@PulitzerOpal Dang ! 😁

Did you know that at one time Engraving/Carving was an official Olympic event known as Competitive Art? You could have been a world class Athlete if you had been born a century ago!

Beautiful opals you cut.. What you didn't know the Shiela and the bot have something going on.

The colonel is back on the wheel 👍

Great video, those ear rings turned out awesome. That gem show would be right up my alley. Did you know you can do a livestream from the show and let us all see your vast knowledge of all the gems there?

Did you know that the most expensive coffee in the world comes from Indonesia? It’s made from feeding a civet like creature indigenous to the country coffee cherries in which they excrete! This unique process gives the coffee unique flavor and benefits. Although there are ethical concerns with the production of this product, it can fetch up to $100 per kilo (farm harvested) and up to $1300 per kilo (wild harvested). Love the videos!