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Right tools make pumpkin carving much easier and help you to make better Jack-O-Lanterns. For easy and efficient pumpkin carving, the tools should be sharp, flexible, sturdy and thin. A long thin bladed knife is needed to cut the top hole and large pieces from the face of the pumpkin and a small and very thin and sharp bladed paring knife is best for carving out the details. You can sharpen your knives, before you start carving your pumpkins on Halloween. Here are some other tools you will need for pumpkin carving:
- Cutting saw or an X-Acto knife with a keyhole saw helps you to carve fine and detailed work on Jack O’ Lanterns.
- If you are using paper tools, you can use an ice pick, nail or Stylus tool used by the artists as the poker tool to transfer the designs from the paper to the surface of the pumpkin.
- You may need grease pencils to mark your designs or shapes on the pumpkin, if you like to carve your pumpkins freehand. It is important so that you get exactly what you have in mind as the result.
- Stencils, templates or pumpkin carving patterns are easily available in all stores on Halloween or can be downloaded from Internet too.
- Spoons of different sizes, ice-cream scoop and large metal ladle can be used to hollow out the pumpkin, remove its seeds and pulp from its inside and scrape its inner surface.
- You can even find orange-colored tool boxes for Halloween at stores, complete with all the tools you will need for pumpkin carving, templates and candles.
