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Recently I've gotten into my polishing and I've been going trough my junk box to practice and I found this Santos strap part. I can't remove the screws which are polished so how do I restore it so the brushed parts get brushed and the polished parts get polished?

If I brush it then polish the strap gets polished and if I polish then brush the screws get brushed. Normally I'd give it a polish then mask off the polished parts and apply the brushed finish but that's not overly practical. Any suggestion how to do this

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I brush, then precision polish with a small wheel, sometime it helps if it has a knife wheel. In the case above either remove the screws or try brushing lightly then polish the heads from the top with a very small felt tip on the rotaty tool. 

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Some times with this type of strap only a certain number of screws can be removed, this is for adjusting the size.  I'm not saying it applies to this one, but with many it does, so you can only do your best in polishing with the whole link in tact.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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