[Jewelry making - Article 00998] - Re: [Orchid] Drag lines on silver

[Kaytzbdz]

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    Dear Erica, If you can share a few more details on your polishing
    method, it will help any of us help you.  By drag lines do you mean
    drag lines of media that is layed on the surface of the metal while
    you polish, or actual grooves made in the metal? 

    Once you get the surface evenly to 1200 you really shouldn't have
    any problem buffing the metal to a mirror finish if it's sterling. 

    What media you are polishing with and in what order?  Tripoli, white
    diamond, rouge?  Maybe the wheels are the problem (of course, I
    assume you are not contaminating one on top of the other). Too
    thick, too thin, too old, caked on with media?  Pull out the file
    card and clean them up.  The angle at which you hold the object
    against the wheel is important, as you may well know.   Are you
    approaching the wheel with the same consistent motion?  I put the
    object gently against the wheel and pull up, over and over.  Maybe
    the environment?  My wheel is outside under cover (I'm in So. Cal.)
    and I know when I polish in the middle of the day in the middle of
    the summer, the process is slightly different.  The media melts all
    over the place!  When it's cold out (it's all relative, folks) the
    media likes to cake.  

    Give us more, and will get it all polished up!  Take it from what my
    friends call me, an anal polisher.  

Kay Taylor


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