perfectly level the brass arm sconces that i picked up from wayfair of all places came with this set plate the set plate i actually positioned right in place of the box then drilled it into place and then started working with our electrical we have a three wire system the block is hot the white is neutral and your bare wire is your ground wire the device that i'm using to strip the wires are actually called wire strippers because we need to get to the bare copper i cut off a half inch to three quarters of an inch of copper and proceed to our light and this light is actually supposed to be for a plug-in light but i personally don't want to see any dangling hard wire lines in this wall which is why we're going to be hard wiring it in place i'm using some wire connectors to connect the two blocks together the two whites together and i'm actually drilling a hole into the back plate and attaching the ground wire to that because this light doesn't have a ground wire to it