POLISHING

COMPOUND CHART
PHASE ONE PHASE TWO
Cut buffing with coarse Polishing with finer
polishing compounds to compounds for a
remove scratches professional shine

BLACK BROWN WHITE GREEN RED BLUE

Aggressive Second Finer than Great for Often All-purpose
WHICH polishing stage use brown and bright known as compound
compound or for first coarser polishing jeweller’s for final
METAL for first stage use than green of harder rouge, an polishing of
ARE YOU stages of when your alloys excellent all types of
WORKING scratch metal is all-round metal
WITH? removal not finishing
scratched compound

SILVER/PLATE ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
BRASS ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
COPPER ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
GOLD ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
IRON/STEEL ✔ ✔ ✔
NICKEL ✔ ✔ ✔
PEWTER ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
PLATINUM ✔ ✔ ✔
ALUMINIUM ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
NICKEL/
CHROME PLATE ✔ ✔
BRASS/
COPPER PLATE ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
STAINLESS
STEEL ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Sources:
https://www.pjtool.com/jewelers-rouge-chart/
http://www.eastwood.com/buff-wheel-buffing-compounds-selection-chart-eastwood
https://www.gesswein.com/p-9646-dialux-polishing-compounds.aspx