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

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]

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

Paring chisel used by the marquetry and violin maker to cut the groove into which an inlay will be placed. It has a blade with a rectangular cross section that is bent at the end, which is sharpened at right angles. [MOT]

Knife with a long (approx. 30 cm), spatula-shaped blade with a rectangular cut in section, attached to a straight handle. It is used to strip wallpaper glued in along the edge of the pasting table from the selvedge. For this purpose, a thin metal strip was applied to the long side of the table. See also the wallpaper knife and the paper hanger's casing knife. [MOT]

This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/paper-hangers-casing-knife?lang=nl>

Rare plastic U-shaped pliers (approx. 10 cm long) that can be squeezed shut. For example, a pancake can be grasped this way to be eaten. This tool can be distinguished from the strawberry huller and print tongs of a photographer. [MOT]

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

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