A Jeweler’s Guide to Using Polishing Compounds

Moving into the world of advanced jewelry-making needs a lot of patience and a deeper understanding of the workings that come along with perfecting your designs, especially when it comes to different types of polishing compounds and the jewelry polishing process. Polishing compounds. Jeweler’s rouge. Polishing wheels and mops, there’s so much to find as part of the jewelry polishing process. That's why we've put together this hub of information to help you get to know the ins and outs of buffing, polishing, and finishing your jewelry to a high standard.

Using Polishing Compounds

This hub is your go-to guide to polishing compounds, helping you to perfect the polishing process. Find our comprehensive guides below on the different types and uses of polishing wheels and mops, and instructions on how to use polishing compounds and buffing wheels, along with our easy-to-use buffing compound color chart. With some expert advice, you’ll soon be well on your way to perfecting your latest precious metal designs with a professional and polished finish to be proud of.

Choosing the Right Polishing Compound for Your Work

When it comes to choosing a polishing compound, it’s best to think of it in the same way as smooth, moving from the coarsest to the finest as you work through the buffing and polishing process. But with the sheer amount of polishing compounds available, it can be challenging to know where to start.

To help you get to grips with using polishing compounds, we’ve put together this handy polishing compound chart. This chart will help you assess which polishing compound you need when you’re working with different types of metal, taking you right from the start of the buffing process, right through to finishing up with a final polish.

Polishing Compound Chart

Alex machines make some of the finest polishes and detailing supplies in the world. These products can help you clean, polish, and protect traditional clear coats, clear ceramic coats, seal healing clear coats, etc. The chart below will help you understand each product and how it compares to other products. The polishes must check out the cutting power and gloss rating to help you select the right glow. If you have any queries about our items, don't feel shy to contact us.

How to Use Polishing Compounds?

Put on polishing compound or jeweler’s blusher to a polishing wheel by spinning a polishing wheel on either a worktable grinder or electrical tool and carefully press the compound or adornments rouge onto the wheel.  The spinning polishing wheel's heat and friction will sufficiently be to move the compound to the buff.

Polishing Compounds and Equipment

Looking to stock up on polishing compounds and buffing mops? Find everything you need for your own jewelry-polishing process in our current polishing compounds selection. And don't forget to visit our guides for more useful jewelry-making techniques and jewelry business advice.

Polishing Compounds Colors

Here we have collected a list of our best polishing compounds to assist you and tell the uses and select which is suitable for you.

1. Black Emery Compound

For difficult tasks and work, that needs a great deal of effort to eliminate unpleasant surfaces or deep cuts.  You should to consistently begin with this compound since it will keep you long stretches of work and exertion. It even beginnings the cleaning cycle for you, naturally leaving metals with brightness on a superficial level when you are finished.

2. Greystar

It is considered for wide-ranging purpose use. Greystar has an outstanding cut while carrying out a worthy shade in all metals. The best utilization on stainless steel with a stiffer polishing wheel.

3. Brown Tripoli

Brown compound can simply cut and eliminate scrapes, although leaving a smooth surface. It is the most acceptable product to use on soft metals such as;

• Copper
• Brass
• Aluminum and many pot metals.

4. White Rouge

These are excellent polishing compounds. You are mostly used for rigid metals like chrome and gears that have been nickel plated. It will give a light level of cutting edge to your polishing wheel, giving those stiffer metals a bright shine when you go for the end.

5. Water Soluble Red Rouge

It provides a fabulous quality polished varnish to the metals that you utilize with it. Moreover, it is best for use with silver, gold, other valuable metals.

6. Red Rouge/Jeweler's Rouge

These jewelers rouge used widely by jewelers. Because of the unmatched level of first-class polishing, it offers gold, silver, and many new precious metals.

7. Green Rouge

This compound is designed to give a high gloss texture to rigid and soft metals. However, this green rouge can simply and carefully be used on concrete and soft metals. It will leave an optimistic and attractive look then you will get with white rouge.

8. Tan Bobbing Compound.

This is an ideal pre-polishing compound. It is merely pressing the surface of valued metals like gold and silver to prepare the surface for polishing.

9. Zam

Zam is likewise an incredible compound considered exclusively for working on silver and precious jewelry. The unique design is cool and will not scratch the delicate stones. This will make it perfect to use on jewelry that you need to polish but could not easily remove the stones to protect them from more rigid polishing compounds. It leaves a high gloss texture without a residue making it a handy compound.

10. Polinum

Polinum, specially designed to permit you to polish;

• Platinum
• White gold
• Yellow gold
• Stainless steel

It gives a powerful polishing work that produces an incredible glittering gloss to your metals. Formerly designed to be used on watch bands and watch covers.

11. Blue Magic

Blue magic was designed only for functioning on platinum. It gives a matchless polishing gloss to platinum jewelry and metals and providing different precious metals like gold a beautiful glow.

12. Fabulustre

It is an exclusive and unique one-phase shining and polishing compound. Fabulustre quickly eliminates small scratches to produce a glass-bright last touch to your jewelry piece without wasting time and discoloring while you work.

What is a black emery compound?

Black emery compound is loaded up with emery crystals to provide it first-class cutting characteristics making it the ideal compound for eliminating;

• Cuts
• Little pits
• Silver-plating
• Tint
• Antiquing
• lacquer and more from metal surfaces.

For difficult tasks and work, that needs a great deal of effort to eliminate unpleasant surfaces or deep cuts.  You should to consistently begin with this compound since it will keep you long stretches of work and exertion. It even beginnings the cleaning cycle for you, naturally leaving metals with brightness on a superficial level when you are finished.

In addition to black, we also have a much more color compound collection; just take a look;

· Dialux White Click Here

· Dialux Red Click Here

· Dialux Blue Click Here

· Oily Paste Click Here

· Brown Paste Click Here

·  Grey Paste Click Here

·  Dialux Green Click Here

·  Oily Paste Italy Click Here

·  Luxor Compound Pink Click Here

·  Luxor Compound White Click Here

· Luxor Compound Yellow Click Here

· Luxor Compound Orange Click Here

·  Menzerna Blue Click Here

·  Menzerna White Click Here

·  Menzerna Brown Click Here

·  Menzerna Green Click Here

For more polishing compound selections, visit our online store.