Définition

• Rough Cut.  An early step on the pantograph machine in which coarse tracing points and coarse cutting points are employed. The purpose of the rough cut is to remove a gross amount of metal in cutting the die. Subsequent cuts will employ finer tracing points and finer cutting points to reproduce more intimate detail. By cutting a die in stages all of the detail in the pattern can be reproduced in the die.  Called roughing cut in England.  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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