tools you must have for jewelry polishing

When presented with a wide variety of jewelry polishing tools, do you find it difficult to choose? Have you bought a lot of jewelry polishing tools and found that the majority of them are useless? Don't worry! We have compiled the following 6 essential jewelry polishing tools for you.

1. Pendant Drill

Pendant drill can be used for drilling, sanding, polishing, engraving, texturing your metal, silver, and even stone settings. Buying this tool will not only provide you the ideal starting point for polishing your jewelry but also enable you experiment in other areas.

2. Rubber Burs

A medium rubber bur is usually used for quickly softening sharp edges, and an extra-fine rubber bur usually go over the surface of pieces to help get rid of any scratches. You can use a rubber bur with a pendant drill.

3. Sandpaper+Mandrels

-Sandpaper, a great tool for sanding jewelers, is the first stage of polishing. You can get a scratch-less surface on your pieces with sandpaper.

-Mandrels have a “split” above the reinforced base allowing to wind sandpaper, polishing cloth, or other abrasives around the gap.

4. Cloth Polishing Brushes & Leather Polishing Brushes

Different types of polishing brushes have different uses for polishing your jewelry and do different things simultaneously.

-Cloth polishing brushes are great for giving a perfect polish and getting rid of stubborn fire scale quickly. They can be used to polish the surfaces of many materials, including metal, jade, jewelry, hardware, stainless steel, aluminium products, wood, plastics, ceramics, glass, watches, etc.

-Leather polishing brushes will tend to buff them out really well, all while keeping the shine if there are any light scratches. They can be used for grinding, cleaning, polishing, smoothing and finishing ceramic, metal, jade, jewelry, etc.

5. Jewelers Rouges

Jewelers Rouge is a very fine compound originally developed by the jewelry trade for smoothing, and polishing materials, including precious metals, plastic, wood, etc. Jewelers rouge will bring out the maximum luster and a mirror like finish in jewelry and other items made of soft metals.

6. Polish Cloths

The final step of polishing comes when you buff up your pieces and see it come to life in the polish cloth. There are two separate cloths used for various things.

The first plain cloth is perfect for getting rid of any excess rouge. And before you put the pieces into the box, you should give them one final buff with a town talk polish cloth.