Burnishing Wheel

[VanHornSaddlery]

Hello,

Thought I would post a pic or two of what I use for burnishing when I do it mechanically. I got one of Ivan's burnishers off of ebay and it works real good. The other one I built out of a wooden rolling pin cut off with a hole drilled all the way through and a nut installed to screw on to the el cheapo bench grinder. Had trouble getting all the wobble out of it but took one of my old shoeing rasps to it with grinder turned on and that pretty well trued it up. Then took some different sized files and made the grooves, ran some sand paper over them and then glued some wet canvas to the whole shebang. Doped the whole thing up with saddle soap and she was ready to roll. On the other side of the grinder is an arbor with a 3" sanding roll on it. Works good for evening up edges on skirts or anything glued together. You do have to be careful with it though or you can burn the leather. A lot of times if I need to even up some edges I will use a little file like contraption, I think the drywallers call a cheesegrater. They use it for evening up edges of drywall but works good on skirts also.

I like Ivans burnisher for some things and my homemade one for some things.

Sorry I rambled on so long.

Here are a couple pics.

Have a good one.

Jake

[DeuceTrinal]

I did finally get some burnishers made and tested, and they work great. I make them from Indian Rosewood, which is nice and dense and oily, like most rosewoods. I have a thread up in the marketplace where you can buy them: http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=15051

I also have some rosewood hand burnisher/folder/creaser/rub sticks there as well that Peter K suggested.

I love custom work, so if you have other ideas just let me know!

Edited March 12, 2009 by DeuceTrinal

[PHIPPS CRAFTED LEATHER]

I would be interested, let me know. Thanks.

I just bought a quantity of Lignum Vitae (not the Argentine variety) and Snakewood that I'm going to turn into mounted burnishers like the one in the above picture. I also purchased a small woodworking lathe.

If anyone is interested in my making one for them, I can try to get a feel for how many I can make in a weekend and how much is reasonable to charge. Let me know and I'll post pics of the one I make this week.

[Ferg]

Did you realize that is a post over two years old?

ferg

I would be interested, let me know. Thanks.