A professional who smooths and polishes jewelry, such as charms, earrings, pins, rings, and bracelets, using polishing wheel. Responsibilities include:

• Selects polishing wheel and dressing compound according to type of metal to be polished and type of finish desired.
• Applies dressing compound or rouge to rotating wheel and moves article against wheel to remove surface blemishes and produce luster.
• May apply dressing compound and rub articles with cloth to remove discoloration and produce luster.
• May immerse jewelry in plating solution for specified time to coat jewelry with gold, silver, or other material.
• May polish areas of rings that are inaccessible to polishing wheel, using strip of abrasive polishing fabric.
• May buff jewelry findings with abrasive to produce grain effect (dull, granulated surface) and be designated grainer.
• When holding jewelry against lapping disk to smooth soldered joints, rough edges, and file marks, may be designated lapper.
• When holding jewelry against wire-brush wheel to remove stains, oxide coatings, solder flux, and to produce satin-finished surfaces, may be designated scratch brusher.