_Letter-Boards_ are Oblong Squares, about two Foot long, eighteen Inches broad, and an Inch and a quarter thick. They ought to be made of clean and well-season’d Stuff, and all of one piece: Their upper-side is to be Plained very flat and smooth, and their under-side is Clamped with pieces about two Inches square, and within about four Inches of either end, as well to keep them from Warping, as to bear them off the Ground or any other Flat they stand on, that the Fingers of the _Compositer_ may come at the bottom of the Board to remove it whither he will: They are commonly made of _Fir_, though not so thick as I have mentioned, or all of one Piece: _Deal-Boards_ of this breadth may serve to make them of; but _Joyners_ commonly put _Master-Printers_ off with ordinary _Deal-Boards_, which not being broad enough, they joyn two together; for which cause they frequently shrink, so as the joynt comes assunder, and the _Board_ becomes useless, unless it be to serve for a _Paper-Board_ afterwards: For small and thin _Letters_ will, when the Form is open, drop through, so as the _Compositer_ cannot use the Board. I us’d to make them of _Sugar-Chest_; That Stuff being commonly well-season’d, by the long lying of the _Sugar_ in it, and is besides a fine hard Wood, and therefore less subject to be injured by the end of the _Shooting-Stick_ when a _Form_ is _Unlocking_. _Paper-Boards_ are made just like the _Letter-Boards_, though seldom so large, unless for great Work: Nor need such strict care be taken in making them so exactly smooth: their Office being only to set _Heaps of Paper_ on, and to _Press_ the _Paper_ with. §. 8. _Of_ Furniture, Quoyns, Scabbord, &c. By _Furniture_ is meant the _Head-sticks_, _Foot-sticks_, _Side-sticks_, _Gutter-sticks_, _Riglets_, _Scabbords_ and _Quoyns_. _Head-sticks_ and all other _Furniture_, except _Scabbord_, are made of dry _Wainscot_, that they may not shrink when the _Form_ stands by; They are _Quadrat_ high, straight, and of an equal thickness all the length: They are made of several thicknesses for several Works, _viz._ from a _Brevier_ which serves for some _Quarto’s_ to six or eight _Pica_ thick, which is many times us’d to _Folio’s_: And many of the _Head-sticks_ may also serve to make Inner _Side-sticks_ of; for the _Master-Printer_ provides them of lengths long enough for the _Compositer_ to cut to convenient Scantlins or Lengths, they being commonly about a Yard long when they come from the _Joyners_. And _Note_, that the _Head_ and _Side-sicks_ are called _Riglets_, if they exceed not an _English_ thick.