Ethiopian is starting to grow on me, despite its issues. stone 191 piece A

well, how long is 'completely dry'? this is the last side I need to polish, and it has been left alone for around five days, probably longer.

it is 1.5 carats, if I recall correctly.

I really like how the microscope captures the opals, but it does exaggerate the color and brightness. I will need a new external harddrive, or two. the pictures arent that big a file, but each video averages around 100mb. wont take many stones to fill a terabyte.

this is stone b, from the original rough, part of the five stone set.

Man the microscope shots look cool. Probably is about dry if thats a week out in the air. You should see my video sizes. Each recording starts at about 20-30GB before editing down and rendering.