But if the Footing be too _Fat_ or the Triangle of the Top too little in the Inside, he uses the Knife-backt Sculpter, and with one of the edges or both, that proceeds from the Belly towards the Point of the Sculpter (which edges we will for distinction sake call _Angular edges_) he by degrees and with several proffers Cuts away the Inside of the Footing, or opens the Triangle at the Top or both, till he hath made the Footing lean enough, and the Triangle big enough. But if he works on the Triangle of the Top, he is careful not to Cut into the Straight of the Inside lines of the Stems, but to keep the Insides of that Triangle in a perfect straight line with the other part of the Inside of the Stem. The small arch of a Circle on the Top of _A_ is Fil’d away with a Sizable Round-File. And so for all other Letters that have Hollows on their Outsides; he fits himself with a small File of that shape and Size that will fit the Hollow that he is to work upon: For thus the Tails of Swash-Letters in Italick Capitals are Fil’d with half Round Files Sizable to the Hollows of them. But I instead of Round or Half-Round Files, in this Case, bespeak Pillar Files of several Thicknesses, and cause the _File-maker_ to Round and Hatch the Edges: which renders the File strong and able to endure hard leaning on, without Breaking, which Round or Half-Round Files will not Bear. I need give no more Examples of Letters that are to be Counter-punched: And for Letters that need neither Counter-punching or Graving, they are made as the Out-sides of _A_, with Files proper to the shapes of their Stroaks. ¶. 4. _Of Graving and Sculping the Insides of_ Steel Letters. The _Letter-Cutter_ elects a _Steel Punch_ or _Rod_, a small matter bigger than the Size of the Letter he is to Cut; because the Topping or Footing Stroaks will be stronger when they are a little Bevell’d from the Face. The Face of these Letters not being to be Counter-punched are first Flatned and Smoothed, as was shewed, ¶. 3. Then with the proper _Gage_, _viz._ the Long, the Ascending, or else the Short _Face-Gage_, according as the Letter is that he intends to Cut, He measures off the exact Heighth of the Letter, Thus; He first Files one of the Sides of the Face of the _Punch_ (_viz._ that Side he intends to make the Foot of his Letter) exactly straight; which to do, he screws his _Punch_ pretty near the bottom end, with its intended Foot-side uppermost, aslope into one end of the Chaps of his _Hand-Vice_. So that the Shank of the _Punch_ lies over the Chaps of the _Hand-Vice_, and makes an Angle of about 45 Degrees with the Superficies of the Chaps of it: Then he lays the under-side of the Shank of his _Punch_ aslope upon his _Tache_, in one of the Notches of it, that will best fit the size of his _Punch_, to keep it steady; and so Files the Foot-Line of the _Punch_.