Draw the outline of the badge you intend to make on a sheet of metal; lay the latter on the block of wood and then cut it out with your chisels and hammer as shown at A and B in [Fig. 79]. When you have it cut out, file off the rough edges.
How to Sink the Letters.
—For this part of the work you will need a set of ¹⁄₈ inch steel letters[81] as shown in [Fig. 80] and they will cost in the neighborhood of $3.00.
[81] Can be had of Hammacher, Schlemmer and Co., Fourth Ave. and 13th Street, New York.
Fig. 79c. the badge on a flat-iron in a vise. d. sinking in the letters
Mark the lines on the badge on which the letters are to be sunk with a very soft lead pencil, or, better, wax the surface all over by tapping it with your finger on which you have rubbed some white wax and then mark the lines with a sharp pointed piece of bone. Otherwise you will have trouble in getting the lines out.
Now lay the badge on a perfectly smooth piece of iron—a flat-iron screwed in a vise, see [C], is good. Then take the middle letter of the name you are going to stamp and hold it with the notched side toward you and with the serifs[82] on the lower edge of the letter exactly on the middle of the line you have drawn as shown at [D].
[82] See [Chapter VII], on Printing.
