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<p>[QUOTE="tie.dye.cat, post: 422533, member: 152"]Sorry to pile on to what others are saying about your jeweler, and someone correct if I'm wrong, but the hot needle test would only ruin them if they were indeed resin. The hot needle will not melt them if they are ivory.</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems like what he is saying is contradictory. I suppose a hot needle might make a dark mark on ivory, but it would not melt it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="tie.dye.cat, post: 422533, member: 152"]Sorry to pile on to what others are saying about your jeweler, and someone correct if I'm wrong, but the hot needle test would only ruin them if they were indeed resin. The hot needle will not melt them if they are ivory. It seems like what he is saying is contradictory. I suppose a hot needle might make a dark mark on ivory, but it would not melt it.[/QUOTE]
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