Why should it? It's just rearranging the same material, fusing it together, and giving it a new shape... even if it's on a molecular level. It may not sound pretty, but there's no reason it shouldn't work! Here, look for yourself.

[He taps his notes here. Aside from his shoddy drawing skills, he's got more or less everything the way it should be. At worst, he's using a recipe that wouldn't be very good anyway. But he wanted to keep it simple.]