THE TECHNIQUE OF ENGRAVING 3 To restore the necessary smoothness to places that havebeen submitted to the scraper they are worked over withthe Burnisher, another dagger-shaped steel instrument,round or oval in section, and having a highly polishedsurface. By means of the burnisher it is also… … Fig. 3. Section of furrow made by the Burin (enlarged). to press together, and so reduce, the lines of the burin.The use of the burnisher corresponds in many ways to thatof india-rubber in drawing with pencil on paper. The Dry-point needle is a strong steel needle with asharp point, with which one…
Engraving · Etching
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