| That's a good question. I wonder if someone in the trade would know.
I know they occassionally break pearls when drilling but not if that would tell them enough.
But I would think the answer should be yes because of the way wood grows in rings. If you cut it in different directions, (crosscut, quartercut, flitchcut) you get different looks. None of the looks mar the appearance of the wood and woodcrafters use this quality to get different looks for different projects.
So, it would seem that if you could cut a pearl without smashing it into smithereens, or burning it, you should be able to get different kinds of reflective surfaces from it. It would depend a lot on the thickness of the slice, the quality of the original pearl, the size, etc.
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