PB Cohen Creations

Last night Harley helped me read my tools catalog from Rio Grande:

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Lucky for me, I guess, I wasn't shopping for pliers. Unfortunately, I never found what I was looking for.

I popped into the studio on Sunday to use the drill press and met Ginger, the Sunday monitor, for the first time in person. She had a Scotch-Brite wheel for the buffing machine that was just fabulous! A big wheel, I guess about 6 inches in diameter and an inch wide, off-white with slightly rounded edges (although they may not have been when she first got it). She used it to get scratches and things off silver - it cut more than tripoli (without the dust and dirt from the compound), and left the metal quite smooth and shiny. I wonder if it's marketed to people besides jewelers, or if 3M discontinued this particular wheel, since I couldn't find it in the catalog (and no, Harley didn't turn that page into spitballs). I'll have to ask Ginger about it next week.

Do any of you know of a fabulous low-dirt tool to use for pre-polishing?