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From: mogul@Shasta.ARPA (Jeff Mogul)
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Subject: Re: Strange tools
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Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 18:00:15 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  7 18:00:15 1986
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> I am curious to know what unusual tools you use in your kitchen.

I have a bristle of street-cleaner brush that I use (once a year) for
doing detail work on pumpkins that I'm carving.  It's about 10 cm
long, 3.5 mm wide, 0.5 mm thick, and one end is nicely sharpened
(probably from being brushed at an angle against concrete.)  It's
nice and stiff, and I can cut tiny holes with it that I could never
cut using a knife.  Don't carve a pumpkin without one!

You can pick these up near the side of a street that has been
swept by a larger street-cleaner.  I've been told that they are
excellent stock for making your own lock-picks; I wouldn't know.