A professional who holds and turns silverware, such as bowls, tea sets, trays, or flatware, against grease-coated cloth wheel or leather belt to impart specified finish.

• May remove scratches, spots, or blemishes with pumice stone.
• May bolt layers of precut cloth onto spindle and form into buff of desired shape by holding rakelike handtool against rotating cloth.
• May buff silverware to specified final finish, using soft cloth buffing wheel and fine grained rouge or buffing compound and be designated finisher.