Thanks AGAIN, I've got one of those 6" thick Grainger catalogs somewhere
in my office...and a Grainger's not far from the HD PRO I want to check
out tomorrow...

dave

CW wrote:

Burnishers are very smooth and very hard. I made mine out of a 3/8 x 3"
dowel pin. This is not what you might thing of as a dowel. These are used as
alignment pins in machinery. They are as hard as a file and ground to a very
high surface finish. Mount in a handle. Someplace like Grainger or Rutland
tool would have them. I even saw some at Eagle (before they became Lowes).

"Bay Area Dave" wrote in message
om...

Is a real burnisher smooth? My screwdriver shanks are pretty rough;
chromed steel, but nontheless ROUGH.

dave

CW wrote:


If that was a good quality putty knife, it will work as well as

anything.

You do need a good burnisher, however.


"Bay Area Dave" wrote in message
gy.com...


I got desperate for a scraper today, so grabbed one of my putty knives
(Now dammit; no laughing!!!!) and proceeded to flatten the edge on a
diamond sharpener. Ran a screwdriver shank over it about half a dozen
times, and damn if I couldn't feel a sharp edge! Ran over to the
glue-up drawer front (yesterday's screw-up, which I salvaged) and
scraped a bit of protruding edge to flush the two pieces up. Damn if
that wasn't almost mystical! You Neanders JUST might have something
there. The grain was just POPPING out at me!

I guess I could skip the $18 burnishing tool when I get a set or "real"
scrapers? BTW what's the difference between a scraper that is labeled a
scraper and a scraper that I "made"?

1. Better cachet
2. Edge will last longer
3. Both one and two
4. None of the above


dave