hand-rubbed

I didn't know who Shoeless Joe was, but Da said the glove was made of tobacco leather hides and hand-rubbed to soften the leather.

Leather (complete version) Michael Dickes 2010

The aesthetic common denominator was a "finish fetish" or "fetish finish," your choice borrowed from the southern California demimonde of hot rods and custom cars—i.e., the kind of slick, finicky attention to smooth perfection required when applying dozens of hand-rubbed coats of cherry-red enamel to an auto body.

When the West Coast Went Pop Peter Plagens 2011

I stripped the old oil out, and sanded and hand-rubbed in 9 coats of Birchwood-Casey.

Does anyone have a suggestion for the best glue to fix small cracks in rifle or shotgun stocks? 2009

I stripped the old oil out, and sanded and hand-rubbed in 9 coats of Birchwood-Casey.

Does anyone have a suggestion for the best glue to fix small cracks in rifle or shotgun stocks? 2009

Rivendell should have painted the axes (useful extra vowel) they (used to) sell, or hand-rubbed the head with Lano-Lube and twined-and-shellacked the handles.

Heat-Addled: Cooler Heads Will Prevail BikeSnobNYC 2010

There's nothing like the feel of a wooden block-planed gunwale with a hand-rubbed beeswax finish from your own bee plantation/vineyard.

Looking for a job 2010

But all of these works take a back seat to this installation's star: a very long and very low wood block of a bench that the architect hand-rubbed to a near-reptilian finish.

'See Something? Say Something!' at American University's Katzen Arts Center; Â?Informed Design' at Long View Gallery 2010

I didn't know who Shoeless Joe was, but Da said the glove was made of tobacco leather hides and hand-rubbed to soften the leather.

4) 2010

Features of these speakers include triple curved cone technology, displacement control circuitry and a choice of high-gloss polished cherry veneer or hand-rubbed multilayer piano lacquer finishes of black, silver, or white.

Canton tunes up new Reference Series speakers - SlipperyBrick.com 2009

What distinguishes Uruapan lacquer from the rest of the lot is a technique called embutido, a fine carving of lacquer, hand-rubbed, incised, inlaid, and rubbed with an additional color in successive steps, taking at least a month to complete.

Uruapan - The Real Mexico 2007