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

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]

Wedge-shaped wooden hand tool (approx. 10-12 cm long; approx. 7-10 cm wide) with a blunt metal or horn blade, sometimes with rounded corners, fixed in the narrow tapered end. The furrier uses the expanded wood to flatten seams (see also seam rubber), smoothly rubbing nailed material and stretching the wetted sheets. It is handled with the right hand while holding the skin with the left hand. [MOT]

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

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

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

The description of the roundel can only be consulted in dutch.

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.

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.

Cast iron kitchen utensil consisting of a round plate (approx. 5-8 cm diameter; approx. 1-3 cm thick), attached in the middle to a bent, long (approx. 40 cm) handle, with or without wooden handle. When the salamander is heated red hot over the gas or in the fire, it can be used to brown the top of gratin dishes or sugared desserts with a crispy crust or a layer of caramel.The salamander is almost indistinguishable from the hat iron, a similar tool that was heated on the stove and used to iron the inside of hats. [MOT]