Types of incense tools

A.	A charcoal tong or chopsticks		For adding pieces of charcoal and stirring ashes in a censer.
B.	A mica tong		For picking mica plates (mental gaskets).
C.	Incense chopsticks		For picking fragrant wood pieces.
D.	An incense spoon		For picking large and small fragrant wood pieces.
E.	An ash skewer		For dividing fragrant wood pieces that have not been burned thoroughly so as to reveal the unburned parts for further burning.
Steps
Stir the ashes gently with a charcoal tong or a pair of charcoal chopsticks. Press a small dent into the centre of the ashes inside the censer. Remember to keep the ashes dry.
Insert burned charcoal pieces into the censer.
Cover the charcoal pieces with a thin layer of ashes using a charcoal tong or a pair of charcoal chopsticks.
Gently make an air-hole in the charcoal so that the heat of the charcoal pieces can be released.
Place a mica plate on the air-hole using a mica tong.
Lastly, place incense wood piece over the silver leaf with incense chopsticks or an incense spoon.