Author name: Elara Voskian
Elara Voskian is a horticultural tool specialist with 18 years of hands-on experience designing, testing, and teaching proper use of precision pruning shears. Trained in Germany’s Burg Giebichenstein tool conservation program and certified by the International Society of Arboriculture, she has consulted for orchard cooperatives across six continents. Her research on blade metallurgy and ergonomic fatigue reduction has informed three patented shear mechanisms.
