Yet Swash-Letters, especially _Q_, whose Swashes come below the Foot-Line, and whose Length reaches under the Foot-Line of the next Letter, or Letters in Composing, ought to have the Upper Sholder of that Swash Sculped down straight, _viz._ to a Right Angle, or Square with the Face; at least, so much of it as is to be Sunk into Copper: Because the Upper Sholder of the Swash would else be so broad, that it would ride upon the Face of the next Letter. Therefore the Swash-Letters being all Long-Letters, the lower end of the Swashes reach as low as the Bottom-Line; which cannot be Filed Square enough down from the Head-Line, unless the Steel the Swash stands on, should be Filed from end to end, the length of the whole Shank of the _Punch_, which would be very tedious; and besides, would make that part of the Shank the Swash stands on so weak, that it would scarce endure Striking into the Copper. Therefore, as I said before, the Upper Sholder of the Swash ought to be Sculped down: Yet I never heard of any _Letter-Cutters_ that had the knack of doing it; but that they only Filed it as straight down as they could, and left the _Letter-Kerner_, after the Letter was Cast, to Kern away the Sholdering. Yet I use a very quick way of doing it; which is only by Resting the Back of a Graver at first, to make way; and afterwards a Sculptor, upon the Shank of the _Punch_, at the end of the Swash, one while; and another while on the Shank, at the Head, that the Swash may be Sculped down from end to end: and Sculping so, Sculp away great Flakes of the Steel at once, till I have Cut it down deep enough, and to a Right Angle. Then he Hardens and Tempers the Punch; as was shewed, _Numb._ 3. _Vol._ I. _Fol._ 57, 58. But though the _Punch_ be Hardned and Temper’d, yet it is not quite finished: for, in the Hardning, the _Punch_ has contracted a Scurf upon it; which Scurf must be taken off the Face, and so much of the sides of the Shank as is to be Sunk into Copper. Some _Letter-Cutters_ take this Scurf off with small smooth Files, and afterwards with fine Powder of _Emerick_. The _Emerick_ they use thus. They provide a Stick of Wood about two Handful long, and about a _Great-Primer_, or _Double-Pica_ thick: Then in an Oyster-shell, or any sleight Concave thing, they powr a little Sallad-Oyl, and put Powder of _Emerick_ to it, till it become of the Consistence of Batter made for Pan-cakes. And stirring this Oyl and _Emerick_ together, spread or smear the aforesaid Stick with the Oyl and _Emerick_, and so rub hard upon the Face of the _Punch_, and also upon part of the Shank, till they have taken the Scurf clean off.