Made in Denmark · By a builder

Sixteen years on the shovel.

Palarosa exists because no shovel I ever bought felt right for the job. So I designed the one I wanted to use myself.

I've been building dirt jumps for sixteen years. I started shaping as a teenager and never stopped. Somewhere in the second decade I realized something obvious — I had never picked up a shovel that was actually built for the work.

The garden shovels were too short, too flexible, the wrong shape for cutting a clean lip. The landscaping shovels were closer but built for a different job. None of them were designed by someone who'd spent a single day on the dirt.

So I designed my own.

The first one is a long-handle square-mouth shovel with a padauk hardwood handle and a hardened steel blade. Reinforced where my old shovels broke. The handle length lets you work from above without bending. The blade shape cuts clean on lips and drags clean on landings. It's the shovel I should have had ten years ago.

Why Palarosa.

The name comes from palo rosa — rosewood. The first handles are padauk: naturally red-orange, deepens to a deeper red-brown with sunlight. I wanted a brand that named the material it's made from.

Why I'm selling it.

I built one for myself. Then a few crews wanted one. Now I'm building them for whoever else has spent enough years on the shovel to know exactly what they're missing.

Apparel goes out under pullup — the apparel sub-line of Palarosa. Tees, hoodies, caps. Heavy cotton, screen-printed by hand, sewn-in woven labels. Same shop, same builder, same standard.