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Hmm... This isn't a putty knife, this is: http://www.toolstation.com/images/library/stock/webbig/42084.jpg
It's called a putty knife because it's used to properly put putty around a pane of glass. The tool in the article is a scraper blade, used for scraping paint and wallpaper, not for puttying. Madness.
-previous comment added 10:59, 3 February 2008 by 77.102.186.115
I agree with the above comment - the image does not show a putty knife or knives. These are drywall knives. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.241.131.120 ( talk) 22:14, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, OP here. Yeah, there seems to be a lot of confusion on what various handtools are called! Googling "putty knife" shows many different tools refferred to as such. If I'd used a scraper (or filler or whatever) to putty a pane of glass when I was an apprentice decorator, I would have been in trouble... It needs to be made clear that a putty knife is that tool from the link I posted, and that it is intended to be used to putty round panes of glass.
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19:26, 5 February 2008 (UTC)Steve
Here in London most of the houses are old and have single glazed puttyed windows, so the putty knife is a current tool for the forseable future. the angled one showen is correct ( Harris have unfortunatly changed the shape( the new shape prevents making the corner corectly) in there latest creation indicating that even manufacturas are losing touch with reality. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alex Stowell 86.9.159.1 ( talk) 10:27, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
"A spackle knife (called a scraper in British English, also known as a spatula in American English) is also commonly called a "putty knife"" If british english it is called a scraper and American English a putty knife then what type of English is a spackle knife? Australian? NZ?
The wide bladed tool with the straight edge is a paint stripper, a similar tool with a serrated edge is used strip wallpaper. I know this because I worked for L.G. Harris of Bromsgrove for almost five years and saw thousands of them produced. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.205.242.43 ( talk) 18:22, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
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Hmm... This isn't a putty knife, this is: http://www.toolstation.com/images/library/stock/webbig/42084.jpg
It's called a putty knife because it's used to properly put putty around a pane of glass. The tool in the article is a scraper blade, used for scraping paint and wallpaper, not for puttying. Madness.
-previous comment added 10:59, 3 February 2008 by 77.102.186.115
I agree with the above comment - the image does not show a putty knife or knives. These are drywall knives. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.241.131.120 ( talk) 22:14, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, OP here. Yeah, there seems to be a lot of confusion on what various handtools are called! Googling "putty knife" shows many different tools refferred to as such. If I'd used a scraper (or filler or whatever) to putty a pane of glass when I was an apprentice decorator, I would have been in trouble... It needs to be made clear that a putty knife is that tool from the link I posted, and that it is intended to be used to putty round panes of glass.
77.102.186.115 (
talk)
19:26, 5 February 2008 (UTC)Steve
Here in London most of the houses are old and have single glazed puttyed windows, so the putty knife is a current tool for the forseable future. the angled one showen is correct ( Harris have unfortunatly changed the shape( the new shape prevents making the corner corectly) in there latest creation indicating that even manufacturas are losing touch with reality. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alex Stowell 86.9.159.1 ( talk) 10:27, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
"A spackle knife (called a scraper in British English, also known as a spatula in American English) is also commonly called a "putty knife"" If british english it is called a scraper and American English a putty knife then what type of English is a spackle knife? Australian? NZ?
The wide bladed tool with the straight edge is a paint stripper, a similar tool with a serrated edge is used strip wallpaper. I know this because I worked for L.G. Harris of Bromsgrove for almost five years and saw thousands of them produced. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.205.242.43 ( talk) 18:22, 16 March 2018 (UTC)