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251230 Don Schwartz <dks@t...> 2014‑10‑19 Re: Help identify this tool
On 10/19/2014 10:52 AM, Brent Beach wrote:
> The tools we are seeing in these ads are designed for the engraving
> trade. It is possible that scraping and burnishing have slightly
> different meanings there. Perhaps the goal of scraping is closer to 
> the goal of burnishing in that trade. If both remove detail from an 
> etch, then they are not doing something we do in woodworking (even in 
> the sharpening part of woodworking).
Going out on a limb here. Is it possible that the engraver's burnishers 
always have polished surfaces and points, and the scraper burnishers 
offered to woodworkers are unpolished with blunt tips?

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Don

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