GARDEN INSTRUMENTS · STEEL & WALNUT · COLLECTION I
No plastic.
Ever.
Hand-forged carbon steel and oiled European walnut. Fifteen instruments and five garments for people who’d rather own one good tool than replace a cheap one every spring.
No. 01 — HAND TROWEL · No. 03 — HAND FORK
FORGED · TURNED · OILED
I — STEEL
Drop-forged, never stamped.
High-carbon steel, heated, hammered and hardened to 52 HRC. It holds an edge, takes a sharpening, and gets better with a patina.
II — WALNUT
Turned by hand, oiled by hand.
Air-dried European walnut, finished with three coats of cold-pressed linseed oil. It warms to the hand instead of blistering it.
III — FIVE YEARS
Guaranteed, then repaired.
If it bends, cracks or loosens within five years, we replace it. After that, we recondition it at cost. Forever.
THE INSTRUMENTS — 15 PIECES
Fifteen tools.
One lifetime.
Drop-forged high-carbon steel, oiled walnut, and a serial number stamped into every blade. Hand tools from NOK 640; long-handled pieces from NOK 1 850.
No. 01
Hand Trowel
NOK 890
The workhorse. 15 cm forged blade, sharpened edge.
No. 02
Transplanter
NOK 920
Narrow blade with engraved depth marks every 2 cm.
No. 03
Hand Fork
NOK 890
Three square-section tines for breaking up compacted beds.
No. 04
BESTSELLER
Border Spade
NOK 2 650
Compact head for tight beds. Walnut D-grip.
No. 05
Digging Fork
NOK 2 650
Four tines, forged from a single billet. Lifts, turns, aerates.
No. 06
Dutch Hoe
NOK 1 980
Push-cut blade that slices weeds just under the surface.
No. 07
Draw Hoe
NOK 1 980
Swan-neck head for drawing drills and earthing up.
No. 08
Bow Rake
NOK 2 100
Nine forged teeth on sprung bows. Levels a seedbed in passes.
No. 09
Leaf Rake
NOK 1 850
Spring-steel fan tines. Gathers leaves without combing the lawn.
No. 10
Bypass Secateurs
NOK 1 690
Replaceable blade and spring. Cuts clean up to 22 mm.
No. 11
Hedge Shears
NOK 2 450
23 cm wavy-edged blades and walnut handles that don’t jar the wrist.
No. 12
Hori-Hori Knife
NOK 1 290
Soil knife with one serrated edge. Comes in a waxed-leather sheath.
No. 13
Dibber
NOK 640
Solid walnut with a steel tip and inlaid depth rings.
No. 14
Bulb Planter
NOK 1 150
Takes out a clean plug of soil, then drops it back. Graduated sleeve.
No. 15
Daisy Grubber
NOK 720
Forked tip and a fulcrum heel for lifting tap roots whole.
5
YEARS · NO QUESTIONS
Buy it once. We’ll take care of the rest.
Every Holt & Tine piece carries a stamped serial number registered to you. If anything fails in normal use within five years, send it back and we replace it, carriage paid. No receipt, no forms.
01
Bent, cracked or loose: replaced
02
Free annual sharpening service
03
New walnut handles at cost, after year five
04
Transferable when the tool is passed on
GARMENTS — 5 PIECES
Waxed cotton, leather, brass.
Natural fibres, riveted where they wear and rewaxable at home. The same five-year promise as the steel.
G. 01
Potting Apron
NOK 1 490
Waxed canvas, cross-back leather straps.
G. 02
Gauntlet Gloves
NOK 890
Goatskin, elbow-length. Rose-thorn proof.
G. 03
Chore Coat
NOK 3 290
Heavy duck canvas, brass buttons, tool pockets.
G. 04
Field Hat
NOK 790
Waxed cotton, leather band, brass eyelets.
G. 05
Work Trousers
NOK 1 990
Double-knee twill with pockets for kneeling pads.
Four days from
billet to bench.
Each piece goes through four hands, and the last person to oil it stamps the serial number.
DAY 01
Forged
Carbon steel heated to 1 100 °C and drop-forged into shape under a power hammer.
DAY 02
Hardened
Quenched in oil, then tempered so it’s tough at the socket and hard at the edge.
DAY 03
Turned
Walnut turned on the lathe to fit an average hand, then riveted through the tang.
DAY 04
Oiled & numbered
Three coats of linseed oil, a hand-sharpened edge and a serial number stamped into the steel.
THE JOURNAL — FOUR LETTERS A YEAR