# polishing glass **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 2, 2003, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polishing-glass/199163 "2003-09-02T16:40:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![viking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@viking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/viking)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polishing-glass/199163/1 "2003-09-02T16:40:39Z")
So, I have a bunch of really cheap dollar-store pint mugs. They work, but they have this annoying somewhat sharp seam down the handle from being molded and not finished very well. I also have a dremel, so I figured I could solve this problem by chucking in a glass-grinding bit and taking the seam off. So far so good, and the mugs are now far more comfortable to hold (which is really the important bit). However, wherever I touched the glass with the Dremel (and while I was doing this quite stone sober, thankyouverymuch, this includes a bit of ``coloring outside the lines’’), the glass now looks all frosted. I tried putting a felt bob to it, but that appeared to have no effect. Any dopers know if there is a dremel attachment (or some other tool) that would restore the frosty bits of glass to shiny see-throughness relatively easily, and if so, what am I looking for? The dremel section at the store is somewhat intimidatingly big and not well documented… ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polishing-glass/199163/2 "2003-09-02T17:46:10Z")
You can get progressively finer grinding wheels and pads for the moto-tool.[This site](http://www.warmglass.com/basic/polishing_equipment.htm) gives some details on the process. Click on the “complete discussion” link at the bottom of the page.