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

This wooden hand tool (1) is stamper-shaped for smoothing the top of the last bundles of flax in the retting boxes. It is a sturdy wooden board or block, about 35 cm long and 20 cm wide, with a flat bottom and one or two vertical handles at the top. The bundles of flax should not stick out too high in these retting boxes, which were soaked in river water. The tool is not to be confused with a brickmaker's tool. [MOT] (1) Proper name unknown.

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

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

The flesh fork is used to take pieces of meat or bacon from a saucepan or to attach them to roast them on the fire. It is a fork with two, sometimes three tines and a long - often hook-shaped - handle (30 to 80 cm). It is usually made entirely of iron. See also the toasting fork. [MOT]

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

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

Elongated tool (approx. 20 cm long; approx. 2 cm wide) usually made of bone, but possibly also horn, wood or ivory with rounded edges. One short side is more pointed than the other. The folder from boxwood is mainly used for folding sheets coming out of printing (1). The folder made of bone is used by the bookbinder to flatten the corners and edges of the cover of a book and to press the crease in the spine. It is made of bone because this material does not leave a permanent crease mark in the paper or leather. See also the paperknife and polishing bone. [MOT]

The forging hammer is the tool of the blacksmith, with which he does all the forging work, whether or not together with a sledgehammer. It is a fairly heavy (approx. 500-2000 gr) hammer with a fairly thick wedge-shaped peen, which in some cases lies in the same direction as the handle (approx. 30-35 cm). The face is light-convex and the sharp edges must be carefully removed as otherwise the iron to be processed cannot be finished flat (1). Can be distinguished from some models of bench hammers that are lighter. See also the farrier's hammer. [MOT] (1) VAN DONGEN: 78.

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