Rubber tapping knife

This hooked-shaped knife was used by rubber tappers to carve shallow incisions into the bark of rubber trees in order to harvest the latex needed to make rubber.

 

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Rubber tapping knife

Above: Nursery and six years old plantationBelow: Tapping 12 and 15 year old trees

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