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The palette knife is a spatula or trowel-shaped tool (approx. 15-20 cm long) with a flexible blade along its entire length that the painter uses to mix dyes on the palette and to apply paint to the canvas (1). The spatula-shaped ones can be made of metal, wood or plastic and are also used to scrape off wet paint with the side of the blade without damaging the canvas. The trowel-shaped ones have a metal blade whose shape and size (approx. 3-12 cm long; approx. 3-4 cm wide) vary greatly: it can be triangular, diamond-shaped, oval or rectangular - with or without rounded corners - attached to a straight handle. The latter are mainly used to apply small dots or wide stripes of paint to the canvas. The palette knife with narrow, rectangular blade is also available as a pocket knife. Then it is a useful tool for testing colors. The house painter also uses a larger spatula-shaped tempering knife, the blade of which is about 15-30 cm long, to mix paint. [MOT] (1) With the advantage that new layers...

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The house painter and do-it-yourselfer use a pot opener to lift the lid of the hermetically sealed paint cans to allow air to enter and open the can. The paint pot opener is a flat metal rod (approx. 10-15 cm) with the end (approx. 1 cm) folded back and thinned for easier access under the lid. The rod then serves as a lever of the first kind. If the end is not folded over, it will be in the shape of a flat screwdriver and / or hook. Slightly shorter models are provided with a ring to put more pressure, sometimes they are combined with a can pierce or a bottleopener. [MOT]

Fire tongs can be used to move burning pieces of wood. It is quite long, so that the hands are kept at a sufficient distance from the fire and the burning pieces of wood. The fire tongs are often part of a fireplace set, which can also contain an ash shovel, a fork and a brush. The fire tongs are very different from charcoal tongs, which are lighter and often shorter. It is therefore only intended to take a coal from the fireplace and light the pipe with it. See also the clinker tongs. [MOT]