On 06/06/13 12:16, Baz wrote:
Janet wrote in news:MPG.2c1a56e91096bccf989707
@news.individual.net:



Professional gardener friends run an amazing biodynamic veg garden and
have been using these tools for a few years. They swear by them, and
brought a couple to the last meeting of our local garden club to show
us.. I am smitten by the Sirius hoe :-)
Anybody else tried them?

http://www.implementations.co.uk/site/home

Janet

Are you having a laugh?
Impractical, expensive and worthless to a practical gardener.
I wonder why these tools are made from steel now.
A bronze tool would be good in the stone age.
Bronze is a useless alloy today for tools. Soft and blunted easily.
Why? On earth? would somebody re-create these useless tools? And try to
sell them?

*That* depends on the bronze. A small proportion of nickel, silver or
zirconium would make them armour piercing.

I wanted to inlay a piece of steel with low-grade silver, so I melted
some silver in a block of charcoal and added a similar quantity of lead
solder. I then tinned the bits (engraved characters) and melted the
silver/solder mix. When cool, I went to draw-file it to flat, and a good
sharp file just skated over the raised run.

It works for bronze too - but silver isn't 7/6d an ounce like it were
when I were alad.

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Rusty Hinge