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Thread: Are those sratches or just some sort residue streaks? HELP WITH FINAL POLISH PLEASE!

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    Default Are those sratches or just some sort residue streaks? HELP WITH FINAL POLISH PLEASE!

    I know this may be duff question but I gave up now! My silver is never "mirror" polished no matter what I do. I start polishing with emery papers, tripoli, rouge or blue and then white luxi polishing compounds. I clean all pieces between switching to finer compound in hot water and washing up liquid. After I am done I place silver in ultrasonic cleaner, but pieces have some kind of streaks (?) everywhere? I know that last step should be steam cleaning (I wish I had a steamer) but tried boiling my jewellery and still nothing. I think after I ended up with even more scratches than when I have started

    My question is... Are this some king of streaks or just scratches? What am I doing wrong?

    It's really hard to capture those streaks on photo as can bee seen only at some angle. How is the jewellery bougt on high street so perfect?
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    From what I've read on here barrel tumbling but to be honest I'm learning as i go myself
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    Just had a thought do you use a dremel type set up with a split mandrel to emery paper it? I noticed that when I did it left a weird uneven looking surface, I have brass brushed it after and it looked more uniform but am yet to final polish so I don't know if I will have the same problem
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    I have barrel and I am no fan of it. At least not for a large flat pieces. Maybe I am doing it wrong too

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alexa View Post
    I have barrel and I am no fan of it. At least not for a large flat pieces. Maybe I am doing it wrong too
    Does it need a new home?? lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by Truffle & Podge View Post
    Does it need a new home?? lol
    Haha! Didn't think about that as yet but I might... Will let you know first if it will look for new home.

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    Nice one! Cheers
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    I might not be able to help much with the problem, but I can answer the question about the high street stuff - pretty much all of it is silver plated over sterling. It lets the mass producers get away with far less finishing and gives a very perfect look (for a while anyway).

    I use a magnetic polisher as one of my early stages in finishing, and find it gives me a much cleaner surface (slightly matte) to polish.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mizgeorge View Post
    I might not be able to help much with the problem, but I can answer the question about the high street stuff - pretty much all of it is silver plated over sterling. It lets the mass producers get away with far less finishing and gives a very perfect look (for a while anyway).

    I use a magnetic polisher as one of my early stages in finishing, and find it gives me a much cleaner surface (slightly matte) to polish.
    ooh magnetic polisher, what's that?
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    Thanks George for solving mystery of High Street jewellery at least So there may be nothing wrong I'm doing cause I can't think of anything else could be done (beside plating now).
    What shot/compound are you using in you magnetic polisher?

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