What is your guy's method for buffing/polishing? Metal, to a mirror shine, specificially. I have a dremel, compounds, and all the sandpaper & cloth wheels I can think of.
How do you buff/polish
What is your guy's method for buffing/polishing? Metal, to a mirror shine, specificially. I have a dremel, compounds, and all the sandpaper & cloth wheels I can think of.
Those are felt wheels, not “cloth”
thanks
Also interested in this. I recently got a variety of colors of compound and can't wait to polish all kinds of shit
Please don't polish historic or antique items. Too many times such items are wrecked because of surface details being removed. Happens a lot when greedy morons get hold of historic item to shine it up to sell at a boot sale.
I usually soak valuable historic antique items in fuming aqua regia for a few days, but someone keeps stealing them.
heh
well one thing i know is that the latest phase with the finest grainyness is with polishing paste, e.g. display polishing paste, which i used by hand tho and with a cloth.
Also ig you use a brass brush in earliet stages, fricking ALWAYS wrar glasses, since they constantly thow spikes.
Not the same as polishing but i can get flat metal to a mirror finish using ultra fine sandpaper, im talking small sections for metallurgical analysis. If i go beyond the fine sandpaper i polish them with a cloth and a fine colloidal silica suspension and then they get smooth enough to reveal the grain structure (under a microscope). When using the finest sandpaper they still have tons of scratches i can see on the microscope, despite looking like a mirror
Nail technician drill.
They can be rather expensive, but the bits themselves are cheap as frick compared to Dremel.
Also comfy to hold.
Pic related is some gay-ass battery-powered version, but most of them are not.
why use this and not a dremel? what bits? Not a lot of practical advice in this thread just kinda "do this" I was wondering how you do it