Dave Burnard
>You can try that, but I think, in general, that japanese or other hard steel chisels are probably too hard for it to work very well. My prediction would be that the edge of a hard chisel would chip at the level you are burnishing it. Recalll that's it's pretty difficult to raise much of a burr on a hard steel scraper with a burnisher

Burnishing also wouldn't move very much metal.

Worth a try - but I'll pass. ;)