In Reply to: Re: Protecting Glass when Guilding posted by Robert Beverly on July 30, 19102 at 05:46:22:
Hi Robert,
Rick Glawson may sell them, but I contacted my local glass shop and they ordered in a special wheel and a half gallon of compound. The wheel looks like a 2.5" piece of hard felt, about 2" long, held in a drill arbor. It has been a while since I used it, but I seem to recall the compound as cirrium oxide (very fine reddish brown dirt), though I could be wrong on the name. It takes a long, long time to remove a scratch, so the goal was to never get them, or never start with them. You must be careful not to build up too much heat in one spot, so a spray bottle of water is a good idea, and of course, you can't apply too much pressure. Scratches near the edges were a bit more critical about heat and pressure. We worked in 1/4" glass which gives you a bit more tolerance than 1/8" glass.
There may be a better commercial buffer process, but I never found it. This one is fairly primitive and slow, but it did recover several pieces.
Mike
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