To provide a polishing tool made from non-woven cloth as an improvement of any conventional polishing cloth involving such problems that the polishing and buffing residues remain without being exhausted from between a work to be polished and a polishing roll to cause generation of scratches and there is a poor follow-up characteristics to the surface unevenness, etc., existing at the surface of the work to generate easily an unevenness in polishing workmanship.

The polishing roll 2 made from non-woven cloth is provided on the periphery of a core material 1, and a plurality of straight, curved or spiral grooves 3 are formed at the peripheral surface of the polishing roll 2. One or two ends of each groove 3 are left open at the end face(s) in the axial direction of the polishing roll.