To make a fine jade product, the most important process is polishing. How to polish a jade product?

As the old saying goes, jade cannot be made into a useful object without being carved. But in fact, carved jade needs to go through a very important process to truly express the beauty of jade, and that is polishing.

Many people may not understand what polishing is. Don’t worry, let’s first learn today how jade products are polished.

So, do you know how jade products are polished? If you don’t know, just follow the editor to take a look at the following content!

1. Oil stone:

Just use a small oil stone to polish it first. If the carving is rough, you need to use oil stones of different coarseness and fineness to polish it again.

Many people may not know what an oilstone is. It is the whetstone used to sharpen kitchen knives. There are usually two pieces, coarse and thin. The thin one is the oilstone. Of course, there are still differences between the oilstone for grinding jade and the oilstone for sharpening knives.

2. Green silk:

It is to use a grinding wheel to grind the surface of the jade, repeatedly, and apply dye on it after one or two times. It cannot be washed off with water. This is to make it easier to know which parts have been grinded and which have not been grinded. Polishing powder is also indispensable.

3. Put on the nails:

It is to stick diamond powder on hard iron nails and process the details of jade carvings. It is also called drilling and grinding. Different grinding heads can be replaced according to the needs of jade carvings.

4. Apply sandpaper:

Use sandpaper of different coarseness and fineness to sand large areas of the sculpture to prepare for the next step.

5. Upper brush:

Use a brush dipped in diamond powder to quickly rub the surface of the jade carving. This step is basically 80% completed, so this step is critical and requires patience.

During the polishing process, a brown solidified colloid is sometimes baked over an alcohol lamp. After it melts, it is dripped onto the fine parts of the jade carving, such as the fingers of a figure. This is to prevent these fine parts from being rubbed off during the polishing process.

6. Cleaning:

Clean the polishing powder and residue remaining on the surface of the polished jade, mostly using ultrasonic cleaning. Use an alcohol lamp to wipe the areas that cannot be cleaned. If the area is too small, use a toothpick.

7. Waxing:

Don’t think that jade is fake when you see this word. Waxing is just to protect the surface of jade jewelry. It is completely different from glue injection and acid washing.

The next step is to blow dry it, and then a piece of exquisite jade jewelry will be presented to everyone.

This is just a rough process. The polishing process still needs to be defined according to the different jade carvings. It is not an easy task to make a fine jade product. Just the polishing we talked about today requires so much work, so cherish the treasure in your hands.

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