Talk:Engine turning

"Guilloché"
I would advise against combining "engine turning" with Guilloché because engine turning is commonly understood to be a finishing pattern applied to metal equipment, such as the cowling of the airplane "The Spirit of St. Louis." The pattern is somewhat different from the typical Guilloché because it generally involves overlapping circles. More imporantly, a person interested in engine turning may have limited interest in the lithographic and architectural Guilloché designs, because they would neither be common on metal equipment nor easily applied, since they generally require carving or etching rather than the simpler mechanical processes used for engine turning.


 * I’ve reconstructed the Guilloché article so it solves all concerns with redirecting!
 * Bloger 19:57, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

I restored this article as it is a quite separate concept from Guilloché, even if engine turning is a kind of Guilloché. --Apoc2400 (talk) 15:30, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

"spot finishing"
The cowling on the Spirit of St. Louis is *not* engine turning and was produced by steel brushes mounted in a drill press on the aluminum skin. It's called spot-finishing. Similar surfaces can be made on a smaller scale with a piece of wood or rubber in the chuck of a drill press and coarse Clover compound. I am tempted to remove the Spirit of St. Louis reference and photograph as it is entirely incorrect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.195.128.195 (talk) 02:09, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

"Engine Turning"
This page should be called "Engine Turning", because it is a mechanical process, not "Engine turnings" which is the swarf produced by a lathe, drill etc. David.Boettcher 16:29, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

New article / Merger / Jeweling / "perlée"
The article perlée is quite nice. Look it up. I think the best would be a merger under the most common name (which I think should be Jeweling. See f. ex. Glossary_of_firearms_terms) with subsections for the fine differences between "engine turning", "spot finishing", the "perlée" of the watch industry, and whatever similar processes there are floating around. Also it's a shame that the best description of the process currently is at Rose engine lathe which explicitly mentions that that lathe has nothing to do with it. --BjKa (talk) 12:05, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Other uses
Engine turning in some form is a very old technique, and has long been used in areas such as woodwork and ceramics. E.g. Wedgwood produced engine-turned vases back in the 1790s.109.158.133.150 (talk) 12:19, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Requested move
Engine turnings → Engine turning – Common name, and MOS singular name. No evidence for "engine turnings" as a form in any significant use. --Relisted. George Ho (talk) 01:29, 20 October 2014 (UTC) Andy Dingley (talk) 18:36, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Putting this through, per the old comment above and the lack of objection here. Dekimasu よ! 00:08, 27 October 2014 (UTC)