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Hammer (400-800 gr) used by the slater when covering or repairing a slate roof. It is a composite tool that has a pointed end on one side - which punch holes for the nails in the slates - and on the other side a hammer end that drives the slate nails into the wood. In the middle, between the two ends, there may be a pear-shaped cutout with which nails can be pulled out. Another possibility is that there is a protrusion with a V-shaped cutout at the top. Between the working part and the hammer handle there is - on one or both sides - a sharp side with which the slates are cut to size. This is done with the help of a slater's stake. [MOT]

Riffler rasps and riffler files come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes (approx. 12 to 50 cm) and coarse. Usually both ends of the tool have a curved active part, but there are also models with a handle. The curved shape makes it possible to finish complex profiles and hard to reach corners and curves in wood, stone, plaster and metal. [MOT]

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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.

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