Every DEN Tools piece starts in the same place: a small workshop region in Niigata, Japan, called Tsubame-Sanjo — a name that means almost nothing to most gardeners outside Japan, and everything to the people who actually make edge tools for a living.A region built by disasterTsubame-Sanjo's metalworking tradition goes back roughly 430 years, but the part of the story that actually explains the quality is more recent — about 390 years ago, in the early 1600s. The region was farmland, and it kept flooding. Not the occasional bad season...
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