This rake comes from the Dutch tool manufacturer Sneeboer. There, stainless steel wire just a few millimetres thick is cold-drawn into very fine, thin tines. Extremely flexible and at the same time extremely stable, these filigree tines follow every movement of the tool head. The entire tool weighs no more than 800 g, so that the tedious work of sweeping leaves in the garden in the fall is transformed into a pleasure to use, even over longer periods of time.

For over 100 years, the family of West Frisian blacksmith Jaap Sneeboer has been supplying their Dutch fellow citizens, who are known to be constantly busy with farming, dyke construction and horticulture, with the tools they need. Sneeboer uses two different stainless steels for his traditional Frisian horticultural tools in stainless steel: a higher-alloyed, tougher one for the springs and spouts of the handle holder and a lower-alloyed, more forgeable one for the actual functional parts. The individual structural elements are welded together and then ground and polished. All operations are carried out by hand.