Definición

• Benchwork.  Operations performed on dies or medallic items at a bench; all hand engraving and hand toolwork are performed at a workbench. Benchwork includes most any other operation performed by hand, most chasing, filing, burnishing, some trimming and piercing, proof polishing dies, loop soldering, some fabricating, mounting and such. 
  Some tools are named after their use at a bench: bench pin, bench stone, bench vise.
  See engraving, chasing, firngerprint technology.
                                                                                                                             

  excerpted with permission from

  An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology

  For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators

  COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON

  Roger W. Burdette, Editor

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