1
: an engraver's steel cutting tool having the blade ground obliquely to a sharp point
2
: a prehistoric flint tool with a beveled point
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The wires are cold-worked into the dial plate, and then shaped and finished using a burin.
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Carol Besler, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2024
Over the past 50 years or so, an artist like Frankenthaler will have a radical idea that simple techniques and tools like a burin and a little press won’t realize.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Feb. 2022
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Carol Besler, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2024
Over the past 50 years or so, an artist like Frankenthaler will have a radical idea that simple techniques and tools like a burin and a little press won’t realize.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Feb. 2022
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“Burin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burin. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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