A Manual of the Hand Lathe / Comprising Concise Directions for Working Metals of All Kinds, Ivory, Bone and Precious Woods

by Egbert P. Watson

POLISHING.

This is performed in the easiest way. A wet rag will polish ivory, but in order to put on a brilliant gloss, take starch, or Spanish white, saturate a wet rag with it, and hold it on the work; when dried off and rubbed with a woolen cloth or a piece of chamois leather, it will have a brilliant and durable gloss.