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Amber is just petrified tree sap and is a very soft "stone". You can work it with hand equipment so if you have any artistic talent you can carve the rough stuff. If you don't, you can shape it into beads or cabuchons. They don't have to be perfectly round - just smooth them into a generally geometric shapes. If you use a Dremel be very, very careful or you will wipe it out before you realize it. Have fun with them and you could end up with some very artistic, period beads and stones.<BR>
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Lalah<BR>
Never give up, Never surrender<BR>
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