Cottonball and/or Mirror Finish

? Question about your question. You kind of answered the question yourself. Standards can be numerical evaluations or visual to the person. What is mirror to one person may only be bright to another. Even a low numerical RMS may not be a reflective mirror finish. Therefore, it is something like describing an adjective rather than a noun type word, if that makes any sense either.

A. I agree with Mr. Kenton. The closest you'll get to a mirror standard is a sample plate produced by any of the specialists on surface finishes and a pair of trained 20/20 vision eyes. For inspection purposes, that'll be about all you need. If your interest is in producing that specific finish on a large number of metal parts, approach a mass finisher specialist. If you want to mirror polish a prototype or small run of large, heavy and complicated geometry parts, maybe we can help.