Paolo:

Thanks for the excellent link . . . this is a very interesting article.

Seems that in the watchmaking world, this finish would be called "perlage" (as the result looks like pearls); in English, seems to be called "engine turned" or "machine turned", which is a good description of the process.

Here is an example, from the link that Paolo provided.

Jeff

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: I remember it is called "perlage"

: Here is a link to an interesting page

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: http://www.thehourlounge.com/index.php?module=Thread&action=view&threadid=19046&id=19046

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