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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Topcat7, post: 2399881, member: 73372&quot;]Having read all of the members&#039; opinions presented here, for my part, and my purposes, I am prepared to say that &quot;Smoothing&quot; and &quot;Tooling&quot; are different by nature, even though they achieve a similar &#039;goal&#039;. To the &#039;lay-person&#039; (which I believe most of us are), either (generic) term may be used to describe a recently (post Industrial Revolution) alteration to the &#039;found&#039; coin to &#039;improve&#039; on the chemical, mineral, or manufactured state.</p><p>Regarding the terminology, well, it is a bit like a &#039;car&#039; and a &#039;truck&#039;. They are both mechanical conveyances used to move an object(s) from one place to another, but each is intrinsically different to the other.</p><p>To sum up. Yes, they are different, and yes they may be viewed in the same light.</p><p>(P.S. For my part, I HATE them both.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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