Sneeboer Planting Trowel - Old Dutch Style with Cherry handle

Sneeboer Planting Trowel - Old Dutch Style with Cherry handleThe first thing you notice about this Sneeboer Old Dutch Style planting trowel is its weight. At a little over 400grams its noticeably heavier than "normal" trowels. Its weight is a result of how these trowels are designed to be used. Think of a chopping axe action using the side of the trowel blade. The weight helps the trowel cut into the soil and then a forward and back action creates the planting hole. Hand forged by Sneeboer in the Netherlands,

Suggested fabrics – medium weight woven cloth

If we find any handles with interesting grain pattern or colouring we tend to leave these unpainted

It doesn't need wearing in like the other heavier Carhartt canvas aprons that we sell

Hot forged and hand made by craftsmen with traditional techniques

When he was in his mid 90’s he passed all of his tools to me (not before then

such as Camelia oil

As this item is hand forged please expect to see some hammer marks and black coke marks on the surface

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Walnut  - a lovely dark brown for a different look

Not many people enjoying weeding

Made in Japan from pressed steel

techniques