Definition

• Fine Cut.  The final cut on a pantograph machine to reproduce the absolute finest detail in the pattern or model. Finer tracing points are used to trace the surface of the pattern, they enter the smallest detail and somewhat help shape the sides of relief; also finer cutting points are used to reproduce this in the die. Previous cuts used larger tracing points and cutting points to remove the gross metal; the fine cut does not remove that much metal but instead sharpens and somewhat deepens the detail.  See pantograph.

  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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