BRUSHED: A special stainless steel wire wheel brush is used to impart this classic finish. Standard steel wire wheel brushes while far less expensive are not used: they deposit ferrous steel upon metallic surfaces which eventually could rust.
Appearance: A deep rich soft luster — more than the Sand-Blasted model, less than the Sanded model.
Very scratch resistant.

SANDED: The buckle surface is first sanded with a 60 grit belt and then lightly buffed.
Appearance: Fairly lustrous but not brilliant.
Relatively scratch resistant.

SAND-BLASTED: The buckle surface is air-blasted with high velocity sand. It is provided for hunters, soldiers, militia, SWAT, etc., where non-reflectivity is preferred. It does not have the pizzazz of the other finishes.
Appearance: The most non-reflective of the finishes.
Relatively scratch resistant.

HAMMERED: The buckle surface is first polished to a high luster, and then hammered with a pneumatically driven peening hammer over two thousand times. Hammering hardens metal surfaces.
Appearance: Quite lustrous.
Very scratch resistant.

MIRROR: The buckle surface is sanded with finer and finer grades of sand paper, and then polished with finer and finer buffing wheels to a brilliant mirror-like finish.
Appearance: The most lustrous — the most brilliant of all — mirror like.
Stunningly beautiful!
Least scratch resistant
(This is due to its ultra-smooth and highly polished surface.)

BRASS BUCKLES come hammered only. This minimizes scratches on the softer BRASS and is relatively easy to keep polished.