If your anniversary band isn’t appearing as brite and brilliant as you think it should be, there is a way to solve the issue at home to give it a truly new showroom appearance. In fact, it only involves 1 tool and a few basic items that can be found in almost any super store such as Walmart, or Lowes even. It must be noted however, if your wedding band has any stones or diamonds in it, you must make sure that they are securely held by the prongs or band and aren’t loose. A loose stone can go flying into non-existence-ville if you are not careful. For that reason, we do not suggest polishing bands with stones until you’ve polished some plain bands several times and have a “Feel” for the process.



There is one important note to tell you before we begin. You will need a bench grinder or polisher that spins at least 3,000 RPM. Below this speed and your results may not be as good as wished for.



So let?s start:

Step 1: Examine the material. If there are deep scratches, you will need to get rid of these before you can polish the band. If there are no deep scratches skip ahead to step 5.

Step 2: Apply a cutting compound to the buffering wheel. If you were looking at the spinning pad you would want to apply the compound on the bottom 1/4 of the forward facing surface. You don’t need to apply a lot, just enough to give the pad a gentle coating.

Step 3: Wearing protective gloves and glasses, hold the ring securely or put it on a mandrel. Apply the ring’s surface to the pad with the cutting compound. You will put the ring on the same bottom 1/4 of the surface on the polisher pad. As you are firmly applying the band, rotate it slightly until you cover the entire surface of the wedding band. It is perfectly common to see a slightly amount of compound buildup along the surface of the ring.

Step 4: Wash off the ring (it may be hot!) to remove any of the left over cutting compound. Your ring should look a little better than before with the deep scratches removed, but not yet polished. If you are working with a 1 sided grinder or polisher, switch the buffering pads to a new clean pad. DO NOT reuse the same buffing pad that you used with the cutting compound or you will never get the band to shine well at all.

Step 5: Apply Rogue Polishing compound to the new clean buffing pad in the same fashion that you applying the cutting compound.

Step 6: Apply the ring band to the pad with the polishing compound on it exactly as you did in step 3. Make sure you rotate and tilt the band so that you polish it’s full surface.

Step 7: Using a toothbrush and a little soapy water or a jewelry cleaner scrub the newly polish band to remove any leftover cutting or polishing compound that may have built up on the inside or edges of the band.

Step 8: Whip the band off using a soft cloth. Don’t let the band air dry as that may cause water spots to dry on the surface causing a shiny but spotty finish.



And that’s it. You now should be left with a ring that’s nearly perfect in it’s finish, and this is the exact process many jewelers use when restoring aged jewelry so we know how well it works. Please be sure to visit Braun Electric Razors and Braun Electric Shavers if you enjoyed this article. We do everything we can to provide you with the highest quality information and hope we have been able to help you better unstand how to clean and polish your ring.





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