Chapter. IX.
Pewterers Tools.
The next Trade is the Pewterers, whose Instruments both for Shape and Variety are not short of any; it being a Trade that requireth many Tools, because from it proceeds much invention, as also diversity of shapes.
Burnisher
LXX. There are two sorts of Burnishers used by
Pewterers. The first in Chief is termed an Hand
Burnisher, it is the least sort, and is used with one
hand, the work being held in the other, while it is
Burnishing.
Burnisher
The second Tool in the Base, is termed an hawks
Bill Burnisher; and such is used for all Crooked
work both inward and outward.
Related text(s) Graver
Bossing stiddy
LXXI. In this quarter is set forth two sorts of Pewterers Studdys or Anvils.
The first is termed a Bossing Studdy or Stiddy; it hath a square taper end,
with a shoulder at the foot of the shank, to be set either on a Block or Bench (as all other small Anvils and
Stiddy's have, that are removed from place to place,
and one used after another, as the work requireth) and
a round head to work upon.
Hollowing stiddy
The second is an Hollowing Stiddy.
Flat anvil
The third is a Flat Anvil; on this is Planished any
kind of Plate, to make the same lye even and flat.
Swage
LXXII. On the Dexter side, is an Instrument called
a Swage, or a small Swage; of these they use several sorts big and little, so that they give them names
accordingly,
Planishing Stake
The second is a Planishing Stake.
Related text(s) Raising stake Baiting stake
Spoon stamp
LXXIII. In this quarter are also three Tools very
useful for the said Occupation. The first on the Dexter Base side, is a Spoon Stamp; on this they beat
out and hollow Spoons.
Beak iron
The second is called a Beak Iron.
Boug hammer
The third is termed a Boug Hammer; this is
round at one end and flat at the other, tending towards
an edge, but of a roundness.
Related text(s) Bordering hammer
Calfs head stake
LXXIV. He beareth a Pewterers Instrument,
or kind of Studdy, called a Calfs Head Stake.
Flotte
LXXV. In the chief of this quarter, is a Tool called a Flotte, or Flote; it is an half round Iron with
Teeth like a Saw all the breadth of the outside of it.
Soddering iron
The second is the Pewterers Soddering Iron;
it is made directly three square in the place where the
handle is fixed, and so runs tapering to an end or sharp
point, all in a three square; the handle is streight, with
a little turn at the further end, like a Button.
Raising hammer
LXXVI. He beareth a Pewterers Raising
Hammer.
Related text(s) Spoon hammer
Clams
LXXVII. He beareth in this quarter a pair of
Clams, with a Wedge in them; they are Iron
Cheeks, with a Rivet Pin to hold them together; between which if a wedge be put, it will hold any thing
so firmly in the upper Claws, that it cannot be moved
out.
Clams
LXXVIII. This is another fashioned pair of Clams
which they use, and is made fast together in the Lips,
or place where it holds, by running down of the Leather, but principally of an Horn Hoop, which the
nearer it goes to the end, the faster it holds the thing put
between the Lips.
Hollowing hook
LXXIX. In this quarter, in the chief thereof, is another Tool of the Pewterers, called an Hollowing
Hook; this in the hook part is of the middle shape,
being longer than round; for some of these Hollowing
Hooks, are in the Bent just half round, others are
longer than this; some are three square in the Bent,
and some are only sharp and long having no breadth;
which is the most proper term for the Hollowing hook,
the foresaid being either round or square Hollowing
Hooks, and so are to be termed.
Hanging candlestick
Image from proof plateIn the Sinister side of this square, is an Hanging Candle-stick, with its Branch to the dexter, proceeding out of the mouth of a Leopards face. The forms and fashions of these kind of Wall or Hanging Candlesticks, which in some Countreys in England are termed Sconces, are numberless; some having them with Faces, others with Birds, Beasts, Fish, Trees and Flowers; some with round or oval imbossed works, swelling out according to the fancy and ingenuity of the Workmen.
Studdy
LXXX. In this quarter, is a kind of Studdy, called by the Pewterers an Horse Head, fixed upon a
Plank or Block set upon four feet. This is now as
it ought to be fixed or set up for the Work-man, the
Tang or square point at the bottom of the Shank
being set into a hole fit for it, where it stands firm to
work upon.
As this is set, so the lower Tangs of all the foresaid
Anvils, Stiddys, Swages, Beak Irons, and
the rest, are fixed on blocks or Benches to work upon, before they can be used.
Pewterer's wheel
LXXXI. This is the form of the Pewterers
Wheel, by which he polisheth his Dishes, and other
works of his.
Snuffers
Image from proof plateHe beareth a pair of Snuffers, or a pair of Toppers extended and opened. These are Instruments by which the exorbitant and over-burnt Wick in a candle which make the Flame dim and dark, is taken away, that the Flame may give a more clear and pure Light.
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