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March 11, 2009 at 8:59 am #590041
transplantellaParticipantI need a garden tool which I cannot find in stores. It is a simple tool but apparently not available in the US.
Can anyone recommend a welding shop or somesuch kind of place that might make me a tool? Should be a fairly easy task.
Contact info would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Transplantella
March 11, 2009 at 1:33 pm #660084
Mike D.ParticipantContact my wife Mimi at Studio Steel LLC – 206-650-0235. Mimi makes every effort to fit in small little projects like yours and would likely be able to build the tool you desire. Better yet, you can take one of her beginner welding classes and build it yourself:)
March 11, 2009 at 3:31 pm #660085
transplantellaParticipantWonderful! :) Thanks a million. I’ll call her.
March 23, 2009 at 4:11 pm #660086
transplantellaParticipantBumP.
I’m still looking for a source to make this garden tool if anybody out there has an idea.
March 23, 2009 at 4:22 pm #660087
CMParticipantIf it’s really simple, I might be able to help, but my welding skills are a bit rusty (no pun intended).
There’s a blacksmith/weld shop in White Center about a block south of Big Al’s, or one block East and a bit north of McClendon’s. They’d probably be a better bet.
March 24, 2009 at 1:28 am #660088
transplantellaParticipantCM, how can I contact you? This is a simple garden tool no more complex than a shovel, actually just a full size nejiri gama hoe. Doesn’t need to be pretty, just slice up weeds.
By chance, do you have a name for the blacksmith shop in White Center?
March 24, 2009 at 2:04 pm #660089
CMParticipantOh, those are cool. I think I’ve seen them up at Swanson’s, and maybe even at McClendon’s. Might try West Seattle Nursery. Unfortunately, that’s more metal working than I can do easily.
So, a couple of options:
Macy’s White Center Blacksmith, 206-767-2731, 10037 14th Ave SW
Or:
http://www.gardenshoponline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=145
http://www.terrebonnelimited.com/index.php?crn=233&rn=380&action=show_detail
Good Luck!
March 24, 2009 at 4:24 pm #660090
transplantellaParticipantThanks!
March 24, 2009 at 8:26 pm #660091
CMParticipantHey, when you say “full size”, do you mean one with a longer handle than normal? Like one you can use standing up?
If so, and you buy one of the shorter ones, it would be fairly easy to add a long handle to it. PM me if you want.
March 24, 2009 at 9:24 pm #660092
transplantellaParticipantI have the hand tool. Really, it cannot be properly converted to a standard size tool because the blade is way to short for a longer handle.
I owned such a standard size tool overseas, but it was shop made and not a factory product. Fairly crude in it’s construction and not nearly as precise and beautiful as the store bought nejiri tool, but it did a great job of dicing weeds without turning over the soil.
Appreciate your leads.
March 24, 2009 at 10:57 pm #660093
ElliottParticipantTry this website. I love their tools. You may find something similar that will work.
March 25, 2009 at 3:56 am #660094
timeslidParticipantAnother try for not so common garden implements is Hardwick’s Hardware in the U District.
http://www.ehardwicks.com/store/seattlestore.html
I got a killer bamboo splitter and sweet serrated scythe there last fall.
March 25, 2009 at 6:16 am #660095
transplantellaParticipantHardwicks is where I got the short nejiri gama hoe. Great hardware store. Love it! Lots of corners and bins of cool stuff.
But alas no full sized tool there.
I’ll hijack my own thread for a sec…..I was in Home Depot :( last week looking for a couple of other more common outdoor tools, basically for clearing brush–ivy and blackberry vines. I wanted a sythe type thing and a curved machete. Nothing. Their non-power garden tool supply is suckage. Lots of blowers and mowers and expensive weapons of mass destruction but a total dearth of decent garden tools. Dreadful place.
March 25, 2009 at 4:13 pm #660096
AlcinaParticipanttransplantella, suggest you ask McClendon Hardware in White Center if they can order a longer one for you. They carry the shorter hand tool sized ones.
March 25, 2009 at 4:31 pm #660097
AlcinaParticipantForgot this…..McClendon’s also has scythes and machetes. They have an on-line catalog
but I’ve had the store order me things in the past that aren’t in their catalog.
March 25, 2009 at 11:49 pm #660098
mblogsdonMemberI’m just seeing this and if you haven’t gotten what you’re looking for, you may want to contact the welding department at South Seattle Community College. This could be someone’s final project and the instructor’s are very helpful to the students. It would be a cost effective way to get what you’re looking for. Best of luck!
March 26, 2009 at 5:39 am #660099
transplantellaParticipantGreat input. Ya’ll are swell!
March 28, 2009 at 5:42 am #660100
crash a-ronMemberIf you need one that truely can’t be purchased from a commercial source, let me know. I just recently made a left handed version for my mom. Cool tool, but they are only made for righties!
March 28, 2009 at 5:54 am #660101
transplantellaParticipant“If you need one that truely can’t be purchased from a commercial source, let me know. I just recently made a left handed version for my mom. Cool tool, but they are only made for righties!”
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My savior! I am a rightie, but I_really_NEED_this_tool. And I cannot turn up any commercial outlet anywhere to buy one.
If you will make me such a tool I will give you my first born son (mind, you’ll be sending him back by return post, ASAP).
Contact info? You’re on. Let’s do it!
You can post here, PM me here, email me at expat09721@yahoo.com, or call me at (206)453-5774.
Any way you want, just save me from unnecessarily shoveling up four acres of weeds.
Marsha
I await your contact.
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