Item number: 8714936034702 View all from De Wit > View more: Garden tools > De Wit Garden tools - Bonsai trowel. Proper bonsai tools are essential for shaping and caring for bonsai. At De Wit, you'll find specially designed tools for maintaining your bonsai. These include special trowels, knives, and forks for weeding and twigs, and sharp blades for correcting leaves and twigs. The design takes into account the tasks the tools will perform. Regular fertilization and watering are very important. Regular repotting is crucial. This prevents your tree from becoming root bound, and ultimately from insufficient nutrition or drying out. Good tools are essential for caring for and shaping bonsai. The more intensively you work with bonsai, the more specialized tools you'll want. If you're just starting to care for a bonsai plant, make sure you have at least the basic tools. We offer individual products, but you can also opt for a tool set. A Bonsai knife, for example, is useful if you want to repot a bonsai, with a bonsai scraper you can tighten and aerate the soil a bit, with a 2-tine bonsai fork you can dig between the roots and finally, a shovel is of course very useful for preparing your bonsai ground surface. Product specifications Bonsai shovel Item description Bonsai shovel Item number 8714936034702 Version Shovel Material Wood, Metal Product type Tools Product type Bonsai Tools Country of origin Netherlands This shovel is ideal for preparing your bonsai ground surface. Made of forged boron steel and FSC-certified ash wood Dimensions: 18 x 3 (working width) x 2.5 cm In the winter of 1898, young Willem de Wit from Kornhorn began planning to start a forge. With a hammer, anvil, and a coal fire, he started his forge on April 1 of that year. It quickly became clear to him that hammer and anvil weren't the future; they had to be automated. So he built a steam-forged hammer and named the company Stoomsmederij W. de Wit (Steam Forge W. de Wit). After the war, the coal fire was replaced by oil-fired furnaces, allowing production to continue. The second generation quickly realized that the region was too small and they acquired a second factory, De Wit Heros, a shovel and spade factory in Aduard. Combined with the hoe production in Kornhorn, they could supply nationwide. The steel was forged in Kornhorn and Aduard into semi-finished products for local blacksmiths in the Netherlands. The roughly forged tools were sent unfinished to the locals, who then shaped them into their own designs. The third generation expanded the range to include tools for construction and road building, and by then, deliveries were already being made to retailers through wholesalers. With the arrival of the fourth generation, automation was also continued. Nowadays, it's not all manual work; series of 10,000 pieces are produced using robots. Fire has been replaced by induction technology; welding, forging, and hardening can all be done by robot. DeWit was one of the first companies in the Netherlands to use 3D fiber laser technology, which allows the tool to be shaped after forging and hardening. In addition to 3D technology, the company also has two conventional fiber lasers. Sustainability is a priority at the company, which now produces garden tools and road construction equipment. Energy is generated by its own solar panels, gas-free induction furnaces, water-based paint systems, and wood products are also produced locally.