Research

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.

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

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

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

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

The pin lifter is a hand tool used by the shoemaker and upholsterer to pull out nails. It is a small (about 20 cm long) crow bar that sticks into a wooden handle. [MOT]

This text on the pickaxe of a miner can only be consulted in Dutch. [MOT]

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

Oysters have strong sphincter muscles. To open live oysters, use an oyster knife, an oyster opener or oyster tongs. The latter can take different forms.  One model consists of two-lever tongs of the first type. The mouth is equipped with 2 hollow "blades" with which an opening is "broken" in the edge of the shell. Then, the tip of the longer part is inserted into the opening made. By wringing, the sphincter is cut.  In another model, the mouth opens when the arms are compressed. The blade of this oyster tong is inserted into the oyster. The thumb is protected by a plate. The oyster is opened with the jaws of the tongs. [MOT]

Leather workers such as the saddler use this hand tool to cut decorative shapes from the leather. It is a steel chisel (approx. 10-15 cm long) without handle with a serrated or corrugated blade that can be flat and flared, semicircular or circular (cf. the punch). The cutting chisel is placed on the leather and hit with a hammer; the desired shape is cut into the leather. [MOT]