Polishing and Cleaning Metal Jewelry

Polishing paper is pretty amazing. You can use it to shine up all kinds of metal jewelry, including metal clay.

If you have a good deal of jewelry to clean, then a magnetic polisher is an amazing piece of equipment you may want to check into. Here is how you use one.

Ionic jewelry cleaners are handy little machines for cleaning your metal jewelry.

Use ingredients found in your kitchen to clean your silver jewelry.

Sometimes no matter what you do you still need to use your hands a little to polish up your finished metal jewelry. This kit is handy for anyone that has a flexible shaft or dremel.

Here's a cleaning solution you can make at home. It's great for cleaning silver and your polishing equipment.

Oxidizing metal can bring out the details in your work or create an interesting contrast. Silver Black is a chemical that makes oxidizing super quick and easy.

The helpful folks at Urban Maille have an outstanding tutorial, complete with photos, explaining how to use a tumbler to polish metal jewelry. This is a must read for metal jewelry artists.