VPCo XL Burnisher v7 Preview

THE FINAL EDITION v7 - the largest agate burnisher in the world. It can be used single or double handed by both lefties and righties.

THE VPCo XL AGATE BURNISHER is a vital tool for anyone who uses paper in their craft, even if they don't yet know it. As bookbinders and printmakers we use these daily on paper, leather, vellum, fabrics and gold leaf which is one of the reasons our Properly Made Books look so good.

The act of burnishing polishes a material's surface to a smooth, glossy shine, adding strength, longevity and a "properly finished" appearance.

It's origins lay in the ancient world, where burnishing paper by hand was an everyday task for papermakers and later, printmakers and bookbinders. However, like so many other finishing processes and techniques commonly used "back in the day", when mechanisation took hold and cost cutting efficiencies introduced, many processes including burnishing fell by the wayside and the skills, once commonplace were almost forgotten and lost.

However, our beloved mentor introduced us to the importance of burnishing and so, after searching for an off-the-shelf tool and discovering no such thing existed, we at VPCo decided to make them ourselves, because why not, how hard can it be? 

We reintroduced these magnificent tools to the market, producing 6 editions over a few years but, eventually, a number of years ago, due to the time, cost, mess and faff they took to make we had to cease production a few years ago to focus on other things - prints, books and coffee.

However, due to demand from people missing out on the v1-v6 versions or newcomers finding our videos and deciding that they must have one, and with the original time, cost, mess and faff half-forgotten, we decided to produce one very final, and very special edition for release very soon -the v7.

These 20 v7 burnishers are about 90% complete and so almost ready to go. The details can be found in the listing below.

VPCo XL Agate Burnisher INSTRUCTIONS HERE

The Largest Production Burnisher In The World. Made in Stromness, Orkney.