Engravers of stick mounts use a short length of wood, turned taper, on which the mounts are pushed tightly. Stick knobs are mounted on cement sticks about 4 in. long. When the gold or silver is very thin, the piece is made solid with cement. The article is warmed in the gas and taken off when engraved, and another substituted. Cleaning is done by throwing the mount into a bath of paraffin, where it remains till the cement is soft, when the mount is finished in successive sheet-iron boxes of boxwood sawdust, warmed, and dried by a gas jet underneath.