Finger-piece
A tongue or narrow strip attached to the sweep-board by the loam-moulder, when he forms a perfectly true loam-bed on the brickwork, on which to rest a bracket or any other piece of pattern which is to form a part of the finished casting. The moulder marks his true depth by means of a square held against the spindle; and the finger-piece may then be screwed fast and true to the line.
This is very superior practice to the common one of attempting to bed such work on soft loam, as, after the bed has been struck, it may be made firm almost immediately with a charcoal fire in an old riddle or lamp. See LOAM-MOULDING; SPINDLE; SWEEP; LAMP.