The silverer always works two pieces at once; so that he may heat the one, while burnishing the other.
Leaf gilding, on paper or vellum, is done by giving them a coat of gum water or fine size, applying the gold leaf ere the surfaces be hard dry, and burnishing with agate.
When an article is to be engraved on, an extra plate of silver is applied at the proper part, while the plate is still flat, and fixed by burnishing with great pressure over a hot anvil.
The mode of burnishingis the same as for gilt buttons.
The burnishing is performed by a piece of hematites or blood-stone, fixed into a handle, and applied to the button as it revolves by the motion of the lathe.
The burnishing may be executed in two or three hours after the Metals have been applied to the paper; and the paper should be placed upon a piece of glass during the processes of burnishing and diapering.
In that case the illuminator had to apply another piece of leaf to cover up the scratches, and do his burnishing over again.
When ready to receive the gold leaf, after the burnishing of the mordant was finished, some purified white of egg was brushed over to make the gold leaf adhere firmly so as not to work loose or tear under the friction of the burnisher.
All writers speak of this burnishing as being a very difficult and uncertain process even to a skilled hand, requiring exactly the right temperature and amount of moisture in the air, or else it was liable to go wrong.
Candlesticks and other articles made in the same way quickly followed, and stamping and burnishing opened up possibilities which till then had not been dreamed of in the trade.
Burnishing the back of the plates could be done by women also, but it is somewhat dirty work.
Women, he remarked, receive the same price for burnishing that men do.
Silversmiths in New Orleans write me, February, 1861: "Women are much employed in Europe as well as in this country, burnishing silver ware.
In France, and to a limited extent in England, decorating, gilding, and burnishing are done by women.
The business of burnishingis not hard on the eyes; nor would it be on the chest, M.
Burnishing is a laborious and perfectly mechanical process.
It requires judgment and experience, but is simple, requiring the worker merely to hold the instrument on lathes and turn every few seconds; but burnishing requires more strength.
Burnishing is done with steel, polishing with buffs.
I think burnishingthe edges of books could be done by women after they are put in the frames, but considerable strength is required in the preparatory processes of shaving and screwing up.
New York, who employs a number inburnishing silver ware, told me he pays learners nothing for a month, then by the piece.
This burnishing consisted in rubbing the surface of the vessel with strokes of a smooth bone or stone.
The combed decoration is rare, and the burnishing of the jars is both less frequent and less skilful than in the preceding period.
Another form of damascening is the making of small holes in a base metal, filling these with gold, and then burnishing the article.
When manufacturers treat their wares to as little burnishing as possible, practically relying upon the buff alone for their finish after plating, the result is most unsatisfactory.
The plate is then returned to the engraving department, which completes the work, burnishing darks, engraving highlights, removing slight imperfections and otherwise perfecting the plate.
This is accomplished by means of a double-burnishing process after the article is plated and before it receives its final buffed finish.
The first burnishing is on machines and this is followed by hand burnishing.
So it chanced that one day I was loitering in the gateway, watching the soldiers, who were burnishing armour, sharpening swords, and all as merry and busy as bees in spring.
Here the old man was employed busily in the doubtful task of burnishing a pewter flagon until it should take the hue and semblance of silver-plate.
The burnishing must first be executed lightly and then with greater force.
The burnishing should be commenced by covering the edge with a piece of thin smooth paper that has been rubbed with wax.
This thin film of wax renders the burnishing much easier because the burnisher is made to glide more readily and securely over the edge.
By this grinding and rubbing off, the edge becomes shiny and dry, and gains in the power of resistance, which is of great importance for the burnishing that occurs in the later stage of gilt-edging.
We can also determine by a careful easy burnishing whether the edge is dry enough to be worked further.
Before beginning the real burnishing rub the edge with a soft rag upon which a small quantity of pure white wax has been rubbed.
The burnishing should always be executed with a flat agate burnisher, and afterwards followed by a flat blood stone.
The skillet which Cleg had beenburnishing lay upon the hearthstone.
He was whistling cheerily and burnishing a tin skillet when a slight noise at the outer door startled him.
What gorgeous coloring, changing, melting into new and indescribable tints and burnishing here, making scarlet shades there as if the tree-tops were on fire, and the rocks molten silver.
There were two terraces, and two short flights of steps to reach it, and a great wide veranda where a Virginia creeper and honeysuckle were burnishing their leaves in the sun.
Another method is to tool the edge before burnishing, or the different portions of the tooling may be so managed in burnishing that some parts will be left bright and standing in relief on the unburnished or dead surface.
The beauty of burnishing depends upon the edge presenting a solid and uniform metallic surface, without any marks of the burnisher.
The manner of burnishing is to hold a flat burnisher, where the surface is flat, firmly in the right hand with the end of the handle on the shoulder, to get better leverage.
The colour may be tested by sprinkling some on a piece of white paper, allowing it to dry, and then burnishing it.
I did inquire," said he, "and one told me that he was well skilled in the burnishing of swords.
And they were polishing shields, and burnishing swords, and washing armor, and shoeing horses.
The burnishing can then be done in a few more hours.
As the pressure of burnishing helps the leaf to stick, it is best to wait till the letter has been burnished before this dusting.
To ensure the gold-leaf's sticking thoroughly, it is safer on the whole to gild the size while it is still slightly damp, and delay the burnishing till it is drier.
The side for very gentle and light burnishing (d).
He may acquire the art of laying and burnishing gold, and no possible brilliance of effect is denied him--within the limits of his skill as an illuminator (see also pp.
It is helpful, moreover, during the actual process of burnishingto have a reflecting paper folded and standing beside the work (fig.
The process of burnishingis necessarily somewhat slow and tedious, and as a rule is not worth troubling about except in cases where great permanence is required.
Burnishing is rather an art, but when well done gives a harder and more brilliant (because smoother) surface than the scratch brush.
If the burnishing tools have to lie about, steel is apt to rust, unless carefully protected by being plunged in quicklime or thickly smeared with vaseline, and the least speck of rust is fatal to a burnisher.
By burnishing the brilliance is improved (I used an agate burnisher and oil), but a little of the aluminium is rubbed off.
