Definition

• Reducing Lathe.  A die-cutting pantograph or transfer lathe for reducing a three-dimension bas-relief design while simultaneously cutting the die. The pantograph has the ability to reduce the design customarily in a ratio from three- to five- to-one, but can reduce up to ten-to-one for most models.  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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