Sneeboer Tool Sharpener
Sneeboer Tool Sharpener
A blunt spade does not cut soil, it bullies it. You feel it in your shoulders by the third hole, and you blame the ground.
The Sneeboer Tool Sharpener is the fix, and it takes about ninety seconds. An extra hard silicon carbide stone set into a shaped wooden handle, made for the tools Sneeboer forge themselves. It is built for the heavy end of the shed: spades, hoes, edging knives, the things that meet stones and roots and come off worse for it.
Draw it along the bevel at the angle the tool came with, a dozen strokes, both sides, then wipe the swarf away. A sharpened spade slices a root instead of tearing it, and the difference in your back at the end of an afternoon is not subtle.
Sharpen at the start of the season and again halfway through. That is the whole maintenance schedule.
Specifications
- Extra hard silicon carbide sharpening stone
- Shaped wooden handle
- For spades, hoes, edging knives and other heavy bladed tools
- 490g
- By Sneeboer, hand forging in Bovenkarspel since 1913
Care
- Rinse and dry after use. Keep it out of the bottom of the bucket.
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