Sneeboer small sow tooth

This is a helpful garden tool for gently loosening and ventilating the soil and removing weeds. This small version of the Sneeboer weeder is especially suitable for making sowing furrows. Additionally, you can maintain the structure of the soil in cramped conditions in the bed and bring oxygen to the roots of flowers, bushes, and vegetables or improve the tilth with the small weeding finger.

For more than 100 years, the family of the West Frisian blacksmith Jaap Sneeboer has been supplying their Dutch fellow citizens, known to be incessantly engaged in farming, dyking and horticulture, with the tools they need to do so. At Sneeboer, they use two different types of stainless steel for their traditional Frisian horticultural tools: a tougher one (with higher degrees of alloying) for the springs and grommets holding the handle and low-alloy steel that responds better to forging for the functional parts in the narrow sense. They weld the individual construction elements together, then ground and polish them by hand.

It has long become common practice to stamp and roll garden tools. However, we hardly need to describe the difference; we want to point out that forging is the only way to deal with a tool in all its details and strengthen the material in those parts where this is necessary for functional reasons.