Product Launch Platform The Grommet Features Fisher Blacksmithing Handmade Garden Tools

The Grommet, an online shopping site and product launch platform for innovative and undiscovered products, is working with Montana entrepreneur to feature Fisher Blacksmithing, handmade garden tools.

“The Grommet loves handcrafted products, especially those with great stories behind them. Fisher Blacksmithing is both a great product, story and problem solver.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXHkJOfATe4#! The Grommet, an online shopping site and product launch platform for innovative and undiscovered products, is working with Montana entrepreneur to feature Fisher Blacksmithing, handmade garden tools. The Grommet loves handcrafted products, especially those with great stories behind them. Fisher Blacksmithing is both a great product, story and problem solver. Blacksmith and metal artisan Tuli Fisher makes garden tools. It sounds ordinary, but what makes the tools special are his commitment to a lost craft and the quality of his creations. Tuli forges each trowel, rake and hoe by hand in his Bozeman, Montana, workshop with domestically sourced materials. He uses traditional blacksmithing methods to heat, shape and hammer the iron, and he hand-turns the hardwood handles. His artistry is evident in the details. Tuli bends the side tines below the ferrule on his hand rake to create a fleur de lis shape, for example. The curved shape of the pointed hoe makes it a hardy, versatile tool with a leaf-like profile, and the narrow trowel has teeth on one side to maneuver around roots and dig through hard soil. Tuli’s labor of love combines his blacksmithing expertise and studies of traditional tool-making. His foray into garden tools started when a neighboring farmer trudged through the snow to ask Tuli to repair some tools. After fixing the tools and making even better ones, Tuli found his new passion. It takes Tuli a lot longer to make each tool by hand than it would with conventional manufacturing methods, but the payoff is worth it. Garden enthusiasts (like Tuli himself) can really feel the difference.

 

About The Grommet The Grommet is a highly curated online marketplace and launch platform for products of great utility, style or invention that haven’t hit the big-time yet. The Grommet seeks out these unique products, carefully tests them, and produces a video review of each one telling the story behind its creation. The Grommet is rooted in the philosophy of Citizen Commerce whereby regular people form the commerce experience by suggesting products that reflect their values and interests. Citizen Commerce turns the typical top down retailer approach sideways, encourages global product innovation from small producers, and satisfies the consumer’s need to know the stories behind and origins of favorite products. The company was also just named one of the hottest sites of 2013 by Internet Retailer. For more information, visit http://www.TheGrommet.com.