Svante and Elsa Djärv and Svantes father Kalle Djärv started S. Djärv Hantverk AB in 1989.
Svante is the toolsmith. He forges and sharpens all the tools. He has the important knowledge about the quality of the steel and the heat treatment.
Kalle was making machines and tools as help in the forging, the sharpening and the handle production.
Elsa is taking care of the handle production, the administrative part and the marketing.
She also prepare the steel before the forging: cutting the steel, drilling and turning it.
All the steel is bought as around or a flat pole, or in steel sheet.
The handle is made of elm and ash. They are bought as planks.

Svante is educated as an model carpenter. His father was a tool manufacture, toolmecanic, so Svantes interest in handicraft started home and also from his grandfather that was a carpenter and a woodworker.

When Svante was an educated model carpenter he was working at Chalmers in Gothenburg and then he started on another school about outdoor life at Sjöviks Folkhögskola in Dalarna.

There his interest in making handicraft increased. He was making spoons, bowls, diches and trough. He also learned sculptering and turning.

Svante wanted to have tools of good steel quality. He found some on the market, that was good, but he also wanted to test if he could make some by him self. He wanted to form them after his own needs.
He bought forging tools 1987 and started to forge some knife blades and an axe.
Svante realized that the interesting of forging could be more than a interest.
So together with Elsa and Kalle the company could be realistic.
The first tool that was sold was a knifeblad and a spoonknife.
A new smithy was build 1992 and soon it was to tight in the garage for the carpentry so 1994 a new workshop was build.

Today Svante and Elsa is working full-time in S. Djärv Hantverk AB with the manufacturing in smith tools for woodcarving. Around 4000 tools is forged every year and they are sold both in Sweden and abroad.