[Harp-L] Embossing is the wrong word

[Michael Easton]

I made some burnishing tools starting back in the early 1980’s.  I still have one but use it for something other than reed slots. 
I use it in the dental lab to burnish in  the bottom edge of metal crowns.  It’s a single edge tool. 

I agree with Richard on his description and that the act of rubbing the metal surface in order to re contour the shape is referred to as burnishing. 

If I took a reed plate into the lab and showed my coworkers the process  they would all say I’m “burnishing the margin.” 

Btw, the slot edge should be probably be referred to as the margin if you want to get more technical.  hahaha. 

mike
www.harmonicarepair.com <http://www.harmonicarepair.com/>
 
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> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 17:01:42 -0500
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> Hello Harp Tech Fanatics,
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> After more than two decades of flipping between the terms embossing and burnishing, I finally resorted to looking the words up in a dictionary. I was shocked at how wrong the term embossing is and how right the term burnishing is...
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> I am making a new tool that makes reed / slot work a lot more easy and accurate than ever before and I wanted a name for it that was, well, accurate. I?m calling it the Reed / Slot Burnishing Tool.
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