Definición

• Routed, Routing.  A method of machine engraving in which a revolving cutter removes a grove or channel from the metal surface to be engraved. Control of the width of the grove is determined by the size of the cutter tip – several passes would make a wider channel or many passes would remove a large area of dead metal – the depth of the cut is determined by a machine setting. The machine is controlled by template letters or an engraving master, which are oversize to the intended engraved design, a ratio of three-to-one is preferred, but a ratio form two-to-one to twelve-to-one can be accomplished. Medals which are not hand inscribed are engraved by routing on such a machine.  See machine engraving.

  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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