my favorite tools for metal detecting

[Gunnar of bradford MN]

some good tools

 

[Beale]

Are you asking us what ours are? Just wondering, Beale.

 

[Joe T. Reasure]

While my wife and I were visiting Mendocino Gardens on the coast of Northern California, I picked up a Japanese gardening tool. It is solid stainless steel with no welding, not even in the handle. It has a serrated blade, which is great for cutting through roots, a slight concave in the blade, like a trowel, and a point end, for digging.

I can't believe how great this thing is. At the time we didn't have a lot of money, and I didn't want to spend the 30 dollars for it. My wife convinced me, and it has been a life saver. How many of you have broke trowels? This thing will not bend or break. I'll post a picture of it later.

 

[Scott_B]

Joe is this what you are talking about?
hori hori knife

 

[Joe T. Reasure]

Close -- it is a hori hori. This is it:

http://www.amazon.com/Joshua-Roth-1515-Hori-Hori-Digging/dp/B00004T2KB/ref=pd_bxgy_hi_text_b

 

[Gunnar of bradford MN]

n/t

 

[ks digr]

i like the standard lesche digger,plus a couple of other's scuba knife,homemade knife from a piece of steel cutting bandsaw blade......hh kd

 

[Beale]

I really like my Lesche digger also. Very sturdy and works quite well, Beale.