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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Wally Taylor, post: 2693621, member: 86395&quot;]I used to cut the dies for Super Bowl and World Series rings for Josten&#039;s. Back then, we used Pantographs to cut the dies. I don&#039;t know exactly what machines they use now, but they are trying to cover up an oversight. You can&#039;t add band splits to the die once the bands are cut. In order to add them, they would have to take every part of the design except the band splitters .008&quot; deeper and leave timy raised lines on the bands to make impressions for the splits. They are the reverse of what You see on the coin. Before they cut the full width of the bands, you have to plan to leave material on the die to make an impression line everywhere the bands are split. If You just take the bands down full depth, there is no material left in the die to make the impression necessary to split the bands.</p><p>That computer just had to cut straight lines on both sides of the band split. I&#039;m pretty sure a computer can cut straight lines. The fact that it cuts across the end of the reeds proves that. Same cut, different depth. And not only can it cut the ends of the reeds, they sculpted every reed. Whoever programmed the computer took the bands full depth, not leaving any material to make the split impressions. You can&#039;t add the splits once the bands are cut full depth. You would need to leave material sticking up to make those impressions. Somebody programmed it to just take the bands full depth all the way across, and it was too late to change it without writing an entire new program. The computer was capable. The programmer just screwed up. Someone knew that there was a screw up on the first program, and they made the &quot;Oh, well&quot; call. They weren&#039;t going to pay someone to write an entire new program when they could just claim that the machine was incapable of performing that function. They are lying to us. And underestimated the importance of FSB.</p><p>Also, if You notice the two bands that wrap diagonally around the reeds, they are split, so they can split fancy lines that wrap around the reeds, yet they can&#039;t put little straight lines across the bands to split them. Hmmm.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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