For anyone else considering the seasonal pursuit of carving a pumpkin and spending time looking through dollar store toolkits or scrolling through dozens of identical crappy plastic tool sets in attractive clamshell zip cases on Amazon, let me save you some time.

The magic term you want is "drywall saw".

(If you're one of those maniacs who uses high speed rotary tools on your gourds, disregard my words. I have no wisdom for you.)

@gnomon a nice dremel with the right attachments makes it easy

@bynkii I have it on good authority¹ that the Milwaukee gen 2 right angle die grinder² leads this class of tool right now, though I think Christine McConnell prefers a different industrial option that can be outfitted for pedal operation.

¹: a pair of talking hands with a YouTube channel that is about 45% dad jokes by duration, https://youtu.be/sBswDxpAoWM

²: https://www.milwaukeetool.ca/products/3485-20

Right (angle) Tool For The Job!

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@gnomon oh that’s pretty