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| Other names | Burnishing rod Ticketer[2] |
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| Classification | Woodworking hand tool |
| Uses | burnishing card scrapers |
| Used with | Card scraper, also known as a cabinet scraper |
Aburnisher is ahand tool used inwoodworking forcreating a burr on acard scraper.[3]
Purpose-manufactured burnishers are polished smooth, typically made fromhigh speed steel (HSS) orcemented carbide,[4] and usually have wooden handles. The shaft profile is usually round, but other profiles include oval and triangular.[4]
Substitutes for shop-bought burnishers are often made with other commonworkshop items of hardened steels or cemented carbide, such as the back of agouge, abevel edged chisel, anail punch, or an HSSdrill bit.[5] Alternatively the woodworker might use a carbide or HSS rod marketed for other uses.[6][7][4]
To work effectively, a burnisher must be much harder than the scraper. Modern scrapers are typically manufactured from harder steels than in the past, and require burnishing with harder materials, making some traditional makeshift burnishers less effective on modern scrapers.[4]
Once the edges and faces of a card scraper has been filed or ground flat and square, the burnisher is repeatedly rubbed at a slight angle along the scraper's edges, creating a smallburr. The specifics of the process can vary significantly between woodworkers.[3][6]
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