Re: Engraving coining dies
I just wanted to bump this thread back up and see if there is any more interest in the engraving of coining dies. My son Woody has become quite good at it, though untrained, and has developed some innovative techniques that are rather different, yet work out well for what we're doing. Here are a couple of our flipping coins that Woody did using his techniques... which involves the use of a Gorton 3d pantomill to get a basic relief depression, and then the use of a variety of punches with smooth or rounded shapes to push the metal around, rather than engraving it away in shavings. We are working in annealed W-1 tool steel... which is soft as butter. After the die in sunk then of course we heat-treat the dies before using them.
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