Rouge

[mcp6453]

Several people have suggested that I use rouge to polish a brass plate. What is rouge, and how is it best used?

[Oren]

I had to ask myself the same question. I thought it was make up for the bride.

So many variations, cloth, compound and then colors. Jeez, I'm lost.

Brasso will work (my choice Drill Seargeant!). I like the comment of checking the back side. That would cut some work down, just by turning the sheet around/over.

At least take a look-see.

[RickH]

It looks like a big clump of hard clay, you rub it on a rag then use the rag to rub the metal to a high polish.

When I was a kid my granny would pay me to sit a polish her silverware this way, one of those "lost arts" I guess.

[Roger Shoaf]

Buffing compounds come in different grits like sand paper. The courser grits are made from emery or tripoli and the finish polish is done with rouge.

[Red Green]

mcp6453 wrote in news:iaidnVPObpIPIqPWnZ2dnUVZ [e-mail]:

Haven't heard of rouge since I worked in a plating shop decades ago. Huge industrial buffing wheels. Broken wrists were not rare when part slipped and hand it wheel. Rouge was put on the wheels.

[larry moe 'n curly]

Rouge is a form of rust and is a very fine polish, but I wouldn't use it because it stains. Try Brasso or automotive swirl remover.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Rouge is often used on gold because of that staining and the enhanced color.

[hrhofmann]

But no one has told the OP where to buy it!

[Ed Pawlowski]

Go here

[hrhofmann]

Fantastic information at that site.

[Phisherman]

Rouge is an abrasive polish. There are different grits. Sold in hardware stores or possibly a jewerly store. But I would use Brasso for polishing brass, then apply lacquer to help prevent future tarnish.

[C & E]

I've been using red rubbing compound for polishing firearm trigger mechanisms in order to smoothe them out. Is this the same type of rouge as jewlers rouge in a semi-pasty state? It sure puts a mirror finish on parts after stoning the high spots off.