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    Satin Polish edges

    It seems the new fashion for edge polish is Satin, a more softer sheen opposed to the high gloss. This is an undertaking for the wholesale labs, to try and produce. Can anyone help with how they do this, or is there a wheel manufacturer out and about that has a wheel to produce a duller polish.

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    Redhot Jumper It is not the wheel, it is the pressure you apply ......................

    Quote Originally Posted by old school View Post

    Can anyone help with how they do this, or is there a wheel manufacturer out and about that has a wheel to produce a duller polish.

    It is not the wheel, it is the pressure you apply on the wheel.

    A hard felt wheel and soft application by hand will get you first to a satin finish before it gets you to a brilliant one.

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    Yes understandable on the pressure. We have about 130 Satin jobs per day and for someone to polish all these by hand would be time consuming and labor intensive. Thus the reason for looking for wheel alternatives.

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    my stock santinelli finish wheel does a nice satin with water going.

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    Can't you adjust the amount of time and revolutions on the Polish wheel?

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    We have certainly tried this. Even purchased a Santenelli satin polish wheel. Still will not give a satin straight from the edger. It's poly and trivex that's the issue.

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    What about simply stopping the polishing process part way through?

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    We are a big wholesale lab that has 8 robotic edgers and 130 satin jobs daily. Small lab no problem, big lab problems, and all the added labor.

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    Quote Originally Posted by old school View Post
    We are a big wholesale lab that has 8 robotic edgers and 130 satin jobs daily. Small lab no problem, big lab problems, and all the added labor.
    This explains why I've given up on my 2 big labs trying to achieve a satin polish.

    FWIW- I think, old school, the uptick in requests is complaints we troops in the trenches are getting from reflections, especially on a higher minus, with bigger frames these days. I tend to ever so lightly scuff up the lens on my hand edger but it would be nice to have it done at your level on an edger wheel.

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    It certainly can be run on a Santinelli 9090 if the lenses are ran no polish ,and then buffed,, in reply to your roughing them up on a handstone. Then some peeps complain they see the tooling marks meaning wheel marks being buffed over. Worked a lot of retail and understand the polish reflections. And why anyone wants a real high minus polished is beyond me. But we must pursue the quest.

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    May get more traction on the issue if the thread was in the general discussion area, an edge treatment has nothing to do with a lense design.
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    I'm surprised by the complaints you guys are getting on high polish edges. We do thousands a year. In the last two years I've had exactly one complaint that we ended up fining the edges with a fining pad.

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    Quote Originally Posted by optical24/7 View Post
    I'm surprised by the complaints you guys are getting on high polish edges. We do thousands a year. In the last two years I've had exactly one complaint that we ended up fining the edges with a fining pad.
    My own eyes can't take the glare. Surprised you don't get more complaints. That being said... to each his own. If it works well for you out there, then great! That's all that matters. I myself...will stay with satin finish.

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