He hath also on his Right Hand a Tin Pot, of about a Pint, with small _Files_ standing in it, with their Handles downwards, that their Blades may be the readier seen. These small _Files_ are called _Watch-makers Files_, and the _Letter-Cutter_ hath occasion to use these of all Shapes, _viz._ _Flat_, _Pillar_, _Square_, _Triangular_, _Round_, _Half-Round_, _Knife-Files_, _&c._ He also provides a shallow square Box, of about five Inches long, and three Inches broad, to lay his small Instruments in; as, his _Gages_, his _Liner_, some common _Punches_, _&c._ This Box he places before him, at the further side of the _Work-Bench_. He also provides a good _Oyl-Stone_, to sharpen his _Gravers_ and _Sculpters_ on. This he places at some distance from the _Vice_, on his Left-Hand. §. 13. ¶. 1. _Of_ Letter-Cutting. The _Letter-Cutter_ does either Forge his _Steel-Punches_, or procures them to be forged; as I shewed, _Numb._ 1. _Fol._ 8, 9, 10. in _Vol._ I. _&c._ But great care must be taken, that the Steel be sound, and free from Veins of Iron, Cracks and Flaws, which may be discerned; as I shewed in _Numb._ 3. _Vol._ I. For if there be any Veins of Iron in the Steel, when the Letter is Cut and Temper’d, and you would Sink the _Punch_ into the Copper, it will batter there: Or it will Crack or Break if there be Flaws. If there be Iron in it, it must with the Chissel be split upon a good Blood-Red-Heat in that place, and the Iron taken or wrought out; and then with another, or more Welding Heat, or Heats, well doubled up, and laboured together, till the Steel become a sound entire piece. This Operation _Smiths_ call _Well Currying of the Steel_. If there be Flaws in it, you must also take good Welding Heats, so hot, that the contiguous sides of the Flaws may almost Run: for then, snatching it quickly out of the Fire, you may labour it together till it become close and sound. Mr. _Robinson_, a _Black-Smith_ of _Oxford_, told me a way he uses that is ingenious, and seems rational: For if he doubts the Steel may have some small Flaws that he can scarce discern, he takes a good high Blood-Red Heat of it, and then twists the Rod or Bar (as I shewed, _Numb._ 3. _Vol._ I.) which Twisting winds the Flaws about the Body of the Rod, and being thus equally disposed, more or less, into the Out-sides of the Rod, according as the Position of the Flaw may be, allows an equal Heat on all sides to be taken, because the Out-sides heat faster than the Inside; and therefore the Out-sides of the Steel are not thus so subject to Burn, or Run, as if it should be kept in the Fire till the Middle, or Inside of it should be ready to Run. And when the Steel is thus well welded, and soundly laboured and wrought together with proper Heats, he afterwards reduces it to Form. Now, that I may be the better understood by my Reader as he reads further, I have, in _Plate_ 10. at _Fig._ G described the several Parts of the _Punch_; which I here explain.