Anyone Make Metal Burnishers

[JRLeather2]

6 hours ago, DrmCa said:

My concern with running a drill press as a burnisher would be that drill chucks are not designed for radial pressure and tend to fall off if there is no axial pressure towards the quill.

I have run my burnishers in my cheap drill press for years with no problems...

[RockyAussie]

15 hours ago, DrmCa said:

My concern with running a drill press as a burnisher would be that drill chucks are not designed for radial pressure and tend to fall off if there is no axial pressure towards the quill.

I guess you could take the shaft right through and hose the end into a bearing held into a vice at the base.

[DrmCa]

Making that contraption is sounding more and more involved as this thread goes.

[Sanch]

Ok so it seems this was missed by me...i gave.. yeah that's right gave @OLDNSLOWone i made a while back after modifying it to accept a 1/2" diameter shaft, he may still have it and can tell you about the performance...i never got along with it...i prefer Delrin, and have made a few. But I always find myself going back to burnishing by hand with Delrin. It is slick and non-porous you would think that it would perform the same as stainless steel which is what the one that I gave away was made of 304 stainless steel to be exact 1 inch diameter. Although I would be interested in finding out how well aluminum would work my only fear and reasoning behind not doing one in aluminum is that there would be transfer to the leather from the aluminum. If anyone knows the wiser please inform me cuz I would like to know

[DrmCa]

Aluminum would  mark everything it touched.

[OLDNSLOW]

sorry for being a little late here but here is my response, Yes I did try the one that Sanch Gave to me on one of the buffer motors that I have ( a HF ) inexpensive buffer and it did not spin the burnisher straight so that was a big draw back, the other that I found with that particular burnisher is that the groves were not machined deep enough to be usable, and having been busy with a life I have not been able to get back to Sanch since we met at my place.  So in closing with what little testing I did I don't think that at least in this case stainless is the way to go.  I have seen several videos of holster makers that either use aluminum or the standard Cocobolo wood, a word of caution here if you want to try and turn down your own Cocobolo wood be sure that you do it in a well ventilated environment with a fan that can blow the particles away from you, I have heard that it is very damaging to your lungs if the particles reach them!