Lawn edger

Thanks to its sharpened half-moon blade, this primitive tool actually deserves the title "lawn edge trimmer". With light cradling movements, you can precisely correct and straighten lawn edges along a board or a taut string. The forged manganese-boron steel blade has a very long cutting life, so resharpening will hardly ever be necessary. We source this lawn edger from a forge in Franconia, which can look back on more than 200 years of history as a family business.

The Krumpholz family knows a thing or two about forging. Based in the Franconian Forest, their ancestors acquired their first own hammer mill - the Guttenberger Hammer - in 1799 and were already producing tools and other everyday objects from forged iron back then. Today, the company's fortunes are in the hands of the eighth generation. The garden tools that leave the production site, which is still in its old location but has long since been modernized and expanded, are tools of the highest quality: shaped to their intended use under the weight of the forging hammer, compacted and reinforced where necessary, fitted with sharpened edges or blades and equipped with high-quality ash wood handles. Free-form forging, as practiced at Krumpholz, requires special skill and a sense of proportion. The steel used, a Swedish steel with a chrome-molybdenum content, is tough, strong and easy to clean.