Implements with a hard smooth rounded end or surface, used for smoothing and polishing. In printmaking, burnishers are used to smooth rough areas of an intaglio plate.

A highly polished steel tool made in a variety of shapes: single or double ended, flat, spoon shaped, conical or combined with a SCRAPER. A common type of burnisher has a round shaft mounted in a wood [..]

See: burnish.

A variable speed, single or multiple rotating head walk behind or ride on machine that spins an abrasive pad, with or without bonded abrasives, at 1200 RPM or higher.

A variable speed, single or multiple rotating head walk behind or ride on machine that spins an abrasive pad, with or without bonded abrasives, at 1200 rpm or higher.

An intaglio tool with a wooden handle and a metal shaft that has a smooth, hard end. It can be used to flatten the roughened printing plate by pressing against it, thereby lightening a line or a tonal [..]

1). To polish by rubbing. 2). A tool having hard, smooth, rounded surfaces used to polish by rubbing.