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Polishing Compounds

Polishing Compounds

Romanoff has the best selection of Japanese Polishing Compounds for all metals, especially hard to polish platinum and white gold! These polishing compounds are used by the finest jewelers around the world.

Polishing compounds are used for cutting, cleaning and polishing metal surfaces to a final high luster. Different metals and surface conditions require different types polishing compounds. Polishing compounds are generally broken down into three categories:

- First cut Polishing Compounds are for used for smoothing out rough surfaces and is generally moist
- Medium/Second Cut Polishing Compounds are used for smoothing out semi smooth surfaces, remove less surface material, prepare the surface for the final high luster and is a dryer compound.
- Final Polishing Compound, still removes some surface material, but is minimum. This is the last stage and necessary to produce a high luster.

It is a good practice to use different buffs for different metals and polishing compounds to avoid cross metal contamination and unwanted surface scratching during the final polishing stage.