For fireplace tending, tools include pokers, bellows, tongs, shovels, brushes and tool stands. Blowpipes are also known as blow pokers (or just blow pokes). Guests can have implements made such as custom fireplace pokers and even branding irons. Becker ties up Karl to a rack, while he tortures Peter with red-hot pokers. Iron is the most popular metal from which the pokers are wrought.