Having thus finisht his _Counter-Punch_, he Hardens and Tempers it, as was taught _Numb._ 3. _fol._ 57, 58. _Vol._ I. And having also Filed the Face of his Punch he intends to cut his _A_ upon, pretty Flat by guess, he Screws the Punch upright, and hard into the Vice: And setting the Face of his _Counter-Punch_ as exactly as he can, on the middle of the Face of his Punch, he, with an Hammer suitable to the Size of his _Counter-Punch_, strikes upon the end of the _Counter-Punch_ till he have driven the Face of it about two Thin Spaces deep into the Face of the Punch. So shall the _Counter-Punch_ have done its Office. But if the Letter to be _Counter-Puncht_ be large, as _Great-Primmer_, or upwards, I take a good high Blood-red Heat of it, and Screw it quickly into the Vice; And having my _Counter-Punch_ Hard, not Temper’d, because the Heat of the Punch softens it too fast: And also having before-hand the _Counter-Punch_ Screwed into the _Hand-Vice_ with its Shank along the Chaps, I place the Face of the _Counter-Punch_ as before, on the middle of the Face of the Punch, and with an Hammer drive it in, as before. Taking the Punch out of the Vice, he goes about to Flat and Smoothen the Face in earnest; for it had been to no purpose to Flat and Smoothen it exactly before, because the Sinking of the _Counter-Punch_ into it, would have put it out of Flat again. But before he Flats and Smoothens the Face of the Punch, He Files by guess the superfluous Steel away about the Face of the Letter, _viz._ so much, or near so much, as is not to be used when he comes to finish up the Letter, as in this present Letter _A_, which standing upon a Square Face on the Punch, meets in an Angle at the Top of the Letter. Therefore the Sides of that Square must be Filed away to an Angle at the Top of the Face of the Punch. But great care must be taken, that he Files not more away than he should: For he considers that the left hand Stroak of _A_ is a Fat Stroak, and that both the left-hand and the right-hand Stroak too, have Footings, which he is careful to leave Steel enough in their proper places for. The reason why these are now Fil’d thus away, and not after the Letter is finisht, is, Because in the Flatting the Face there is now a less Body of Steel to File away, than if the whole Face of the Punch had remain’d intire: For though the following ways are quick ways to Flatten the Face, yet considering how tenderly you go to Work, and with what Smooth Files this Work must be done, the riddance made will be far less when a broad Face of _Steel_ is to be Flatned, than when only so much, or very little more than the Face of the _Letter_ only is to be Flatned.