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Picking knife (basket maker)
A basket maker's picking knife has a wide, curved or semicircular (approx.
4-7 cm) blade with a sharp outside. The basket maker uses the knife to cut
off the twigs sticking out of a woven basket. He places the cut on the twig
and cuts it off by an axial movement (cf. the curved knife). The picking
knife is sometimes replaced by a shoe knife (1). [MOT] (1) AUDIGER: 3;
LEROUX & DUCHESNE: 4.