The _Joynt-Flat-Gage_ is very troublesome to use, because it is difficult to fit the Face of the _Punch_, to lie in the Plain of the Face of the _Gage_; especially, if, in making the Letter, the Shank be Filed Tapering, as it most times is. For then the Hammer-end of the _Punch_ being bigger than the Face-end, it will indeed Pinch at the Hammer-end, whilst the Face-end stands unsteady to Work on. But when the _Punch_ is fitted in, it is no way more advantagious for Use, than the Chaps of the _Hand-Vice_ I mentioned in ¶. 3. of this §. Wherefore, I fit the _Punch_ into the Chaps of the _Hand-Vice_, as I shewed in the aforesaid ¶. and with a fine smooth Whet-stone and Water, take the Scurf lightly off the Face of the _Punch_; and afterwards, with a fine smooth Hone and Water, work down to the bare bright Steel. At last, drying the _Punch_ and Chaps of the _Hand-Vice_ with a dry Rag, I pollish the Face of the _Punch_ with Powder of Dry _Brick_ and a Stick, as with _Putty_. ¶. 5. _Some Rules he considers in using the_ Gravers, Sculptors, Small Files, _&c._ 1. When he is Graving on the Inside of the Stroak, either to make it Finer or Smoother, he takes an especial care that he place his Graver or Sculptor so, as that neither of its Edges may wrong another Stroak of the Letter, if they chance (as they often do) to slip over, or off an extuberant part of the Stroak he is Graving upon. And therefore, I say, he well considers how he is to manage the edges of his Graver. For there is no great danger of the point of his Graver after the inside Stroaks are form’d, and the Hollows of the Letter somewhat deepned; but in the edges there is: For the point in working lies always below the Face of the Letter, and therefore can, at most, but slip below the Face, against the side of the next Stroak; but the edges lying above the Face of the Letter, may, in a slip, touch upon the Side and Face of the next Stroak, and wrong that more or less, according as the force of the Slip was greater or smaller. And if that Stroak it jobs against were before wholly finished, by that job the whole Letter is in danger to be spoiled; at the best, it cannot, without Filing the Letter lower, be wrought out; which sometimes is a great part of doing the Letter anew: For he takes special care that neither any dawk, or the least extuberant bunching out be upon the inside of the Face of the Stroak, but that the inside of the Stroak (whether it be Fat or Lean) have its proper Shape and Proportion, and be purely smooth and clean all the way.