Tallbald Report post Posted April 30, 2018 I'm a small time hobbiest who does sell a goodly number of belts and black powder revolver holsters. My burnisher currently is a small Harbor Freight drill press with 1/2 inch chuck. I make my own purpleheart hardwood rotary burnisher tools to use in the press. I want a tabletop horizontal axis burnisher with a Jacobs chuck. Anyone here know of a brand, or a ball bearing arbor setup I can buy to make my own with? I'm pretty useful in my little fabrication shop and might be able to come up with something. Thanks. Don Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bikermutt07 Report post Posted April 30, 2018 You could just make a mount to house your press horizontally. Or at least the parts needed for burnishing. Just thinking out loud. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bullmoosepaddles Report post Posted April 30, 2018 Take the motor or a spare motor and attach motor arbor like below https://www.woodworkingshop.com/product/cl10009/ Hope this helps Gene Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bullmoosepaddles Report post Posted April 30, 2018 Sorry, mount the motor horizontal or mount a spare motor in the horizontal position and use the arbor listed above Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nuttish Report post Posted May 1, 2018 Check out one of my most recent posts about the horizontal burnisher I made out of a free treadmill motor. It produces absurdly good results with absurdly little effort. The key is going SLOW. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tallbald Report post Posted May 2, 2018 These are great ideas. I really thank each of you. I'm going to explore some options here. Thanks again. Don. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
