How To Polish Gold Jewelry With A Dremel

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How to polish gold jewelry with a dremel. This is part 1 of the polishing series. The felt polishing bit is used for applying polishing compound and polishing. A new baby sized soft bristle toothbrush is ideal to use. With a dremel polishing precious items such as silver jewellery is safe efficient and easy. Allow it to soak for a few minutes 1 x research sourcestep 2 scrub the gold with a soft bristled toothbrush.

Soak in warm water and dishwashing soap. The more you love an object the more you ll want to keep it shining bright. Put the gold jewelry into the water. Add a small amount of baking soda and a mild dish soap. Gently scrub the gold with the toothbrush.

Dremel makes a polishing kit with buffs and polish. Take a felt polishing bit or nylon brush and insert it into the dremel rotary tool following the manufacturer s instructions. Create a mixture of two cups of warm water and only a few drops of a mild dishwashing soap. There is a full range of five different grits and each one is a specific color. Fill a bowl with water.

Start at 5 000 rpm for a soft polish and then turn it up slowly if you want but for the best results stay below 15 000 rpm. The discs are designed for use in a pendant drill or rotary tool such as a dremel. You do not need to apply that much pressure while scrubbing. Use felt bobs and tripoli polishing compound from your dremel kit to remove light scratches and marks made by the 400 grit emery cloth on the inside surfaces of your jewelry. Allow it to soak for fifteen minutes.

Just choose the right polishing tools see tip 3 don t press down too hard on the object s surface how to avoid and go slow on the rpms. Step 1 soak the gold in water baking soda and dish soap. The bristle brush for the dremel rotary tool can be used to apply the polishing compound. Open the polish dip your buffing wheel into the polish and then use the rotary tool to polish as needed. Simply stack 2 of the same grit discs on a screw mandrel making sure to face them the correct way.