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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 218807, member: 36"]One guess what I was doing last night...restringing. I finished off one and redid a second piece, both old 30s/40s Czech glass. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for testing, good old baking soda/sodium bicarb does the trick without having to find the polish. A damp q-tip, dunked in the baking soda, and rubbed does the job neatly. Rub an inner surface and hold it close to your nose and sniff while you're at it. Nicotine will sometimes give a false positive on color, but the smell is unmistakable. In the field, I generally just use my eyes, although the rub and sniff method is also useful. Generally the weight and color give the game away.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 218807, member: 36"]One guess what I was doing last night...restringing. I finished off one and redid a second piece, both old 30s/40s Czech glass. As for testing, good old baking soda/sodium bicarb does the trick without having to find the polish. A damp q-tip, dunked in the baking soda, and rubbed does the job neatly. Rub an inner surface and hold it close to your nose and sniff while you're at it. Nicotine will sometimes give a false positive on color, but the smell is unmistakable. In the field, I generally just use my eyes, although the rub and sniff method is also useful. Generally the weight and color give the game away.[/QUOTE]
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