How to apply tokonole

[Hardrada]

What's the problem of using one's fingers? You get more control over the amount and extent that's applied that way. When you've trained your fingers to a given process you can make it as fast or faster than a machine.

As for industrial scale production, I don't think they use Tokonole.

@RockyAussie has a manufactory. Maybe he'll pop by and tell us how he does his edges on large scale production.

PS: Why, even at Hermes they still apply edge paint by hand with awls:

 

Edited December 3, 2020 by Hardrada

[YinTx]

11 hours ago, matcanada said:

How do the more industrial shops do it?

I saw one factory stack like 20 straps on edge touching each other, and literally swab on the edge dye across all of them at once, and buff them.  Seemed to work ok, I can't imagine it was a mirror shine, but a production edge.

YinTx

[Hardrada]

They also have those rollers:

https://www.buckleguy.com/leather-edge-paint/

They're designed for paint, though, so I'm not sure how effective they'd be to apply burnishing compound which is more viscous than edge coats.