Hand scraper

A burnisher is a tool for the smoothing of the cutting tools and blades. Polishing steels are usually made ​​of high strength and very hard steel, have a high gloss surface and often are additionally provided with a coating of chromium is with the grated / deleted on the material to be polished. This is thus so far smoothed that it takes itself shine. The ridge of a blade edge is raised and the material undergoes solidification by a higher hardness.

Polishing steels are often attached to a stem or staples to can be handled better. The cross section may be circular, triangular and oval.

Unlike the polishing with polishing pastes and powders, the polish by abrasion, is lost by rubbing with the polishing stone almost no material.

Since no material is removed, the blade of a knife can not be fine, but only smoother, shinier and egalisierter.

A related tool is the polishing stone.

• Hand tools