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Rose knife

This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/rose-knife?lang=nl>

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Rubber tapping knife

Rubber is extracted from the milk sap (latex) of the heveas. Extraction is done by tapping the living tree with the tapping knife. The latex is cut transversely. Therefore, the tap cut is made at an angle of approximately 30 ° to the horizontal plane, causing the latex to run off the cut. A metal gutter is attached under the cut, through which the latex ends up in the receptacle (1). The tap knife has a metal curved blade with a U-shaped curved lip at the end and a straight wooden handle of approx. 10 cm. When tapping, a strip of bark of about 1.5 cm thickness is cut away with this sharp lip. The tap knife resembles the timber scribe with which a tree to be felled is marked and the clog maker's timber scribe with which the clogmaker applies decorations to clogs. [MOT] (1) See eg VAN DEN ABEELE & VANDENPUT: 374.

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Safety razor sharpener

There are different models of sharpeners for sharpening the blades of a safety razor (1). In the past, people used a razor strop on which they pushed the knife back and forth. You can also use a concave oil stone to sharpen the blades. [MOT] (1) DURBIN G., Wig, hairdressing and shaving bygones, Oxford, 1984: 21.

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Round nose pliers

This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/round-nose-pliers?lang=nl>

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Router plane

This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/router-plane?lang=nl>

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Rounded chisel

Metal chisel with a rounded cutting edge. Models with a wooden handle are more suitable for soft stones such as marl. Used by sculptors to carve out round features, such as the hairs or the eyes on a portrait. The stonemason uses it to cut curved elements and the groove on a window sill which prevents rainwater from running down the wall. [MOT]