Though I have treated thus much on the Forging of Punches, yet must all what I have said be understood only for great Bodied _Punches_; _viz._ from the _Great-Primer_, and upwards. But for smaller Bodies; as _English_, and downwards, the _Letter-Cutter_ generally, both for _Romans_ and _Italicks_, gets so many square Rods of Steel, Forged out of about two or three Foot in Length, as may serve his purpose; which Rods he elects as near his Body and Sizes as his Judgment will serve him to do; and with the edge of a Half-round File, or a Cold-Chissel, cuts them into so many Lengths as he wants _Punches_. Nay, many of these Rods may serve for some of the small Letters in some of the greater Bodies; and also, for many of their _Counter-Punches_. Having thus prepared your _Punches_, you must Neal them, as I shewed in _Numb._ 3. _Vol._ I. ¶. 2. _Of_ Counter-Punches. The _Counter-Punches_ for great Letters are to be Forged as the _Letter-Punches_; but for the smaller Letters, they may be cut out of Rods of Steel, as aforesaid. They must also be well Neal’d, as the _Punches_. Then must one of the ends be Filed away on the outside the Shank, to the exact shape of the inside of the Letter you intend to Cut. For Example, If it be _A_ you would Cut; This _Counter-Punch_ is easie to make, because it is a Triangle; and by measuring the Inside of the Angle of _A_ in the Draft of Letters, as you were taught, §. 12. ¶. 6. you may make on your Standing _Gage-Plate_ a _Gage_ for that Angle: So that, let the Letter to be Cut be of what Body you will, from the least, to the biggest Body, you have a Standing _Gage_ for this _Counter-Punch_, so oft as you may have occasion to Cut A. The _Counter-Punch_ of _A_ ought to be Forged Triangularly, especially towards the Punching End, and Tryed by the _A Gage_, as you were taught to use the Square, _Numb._ 3. _Vol._ I. Yet, for this and other Triangular _Punches_, I commonly reserve my worn-out three square Files, and make my _Counter-Punch_ of a piece of one of them that best fits the Body I am to Cut. Having by your _A-Gage_ fitted the Top-Angle and the Sides of this _Counter-Punch_, you must adjust its Heighth by one of the three _Face-Gages_ mentioned in §. 12. ¶. 5. _viz._ by the Ascending _Face-Gage_; for _A_ is an Ascending Letter. By Adjusting, I do not mean, you must make the _Counter-Punch_ so high, as the Depth of the Ascending _Face-Gage_; because in this Letter here is to be considered the Top and the Footing, which strictly, as by the large Draft of _A_, make both together five sixth Parts of a thin Space: Therefore five sixth Parts must be abated in the Heighth of your _Counter-Punch_, and it must be but four thin Spaces, and one sixth part of a thin Space high, because the Top above the _Counter-Punch_, and the Footing below, makes five sixth Parts of a thin Space, as aforesaid.