Burnishing

[Jerry Bittner]

Did a search on burnishing but all I came up with is putting edges on scrapers, etc. Yet somewhere I read in a recent mangazine about using a "tool" to burnish a slightly misfit (short) miter joint.

Am I using the wrong word, but if not, just how does one burnish a miter joint to eliminate a very slight gap?

[Jack Ferrell]

I just 'roll' the edges with the round shaft of a screwdriver.

[Jerry Bittner]

I just 'roll' the edges with the round shaft of a screwdriver.

Now I know and thanks for the response.

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

The expression "burnish" finds it's way in most trades and insustries where one wishes to rub a surface to produse a certain effect without removing any stock.

There has been a long and heated debate whether a burnished rifle barrel is a good thing or not.

Burnishing is distinct from spinning where metal is deformed bing pushed around to form a shape. Some amount of burnishing is inherrent is the spining process but it's adjunct not necessairly prime. In cymbol productsion the burnishing effect is rather important to the tone.

[David Wilson]

Now I know and thanks for the response.

I use an old valve out of a gas engine. The stem's are verry hard.