Fish-boning tweezers[Kurata]

Tweezers removing fishbones easily! Hand made tweezers professional chefs also use.

These fish-bonig tweezers have the same quality and performance as others of Kurata tweezers said that even a hair of 5 thousandths of a millimeter is tweezed easily.
It has been loved by professional chefs including chefs of sushi restaurants and Japanese restaurants.
Because fish bone can be easily removed and users will hardly feel fatigue even when using it for a long time.
The power of springs is very strong and it is wall thick and superior in the durability.
Please realize the skill of the craftsman who won a prize for"traditional craft skills Achievement Award from Arakawa Ward in Tokyo” feeling comfortable sense of use.

Three conditions to distinguish good tweezers.

1. When the pair of tips is closed and held against the light, the light is not leaked from the gap between tips.
2. When it is seen from a side face, the pair of tips is fit .
3. When a bone is picked with tweezers, there is a spring in both sides of the tips.
If there is not even any one among the three conditions, when picking a bone it may not be taken out cleanly.
Kurata's fish-boning tweezers have these three conditions.
If you have one, it will be usable for a long time.

Fishbones are removed smoothly and easily!

At a Sushi restaurant, Masu zushi in Suginami-ward,Tokyo the chef who had never used Kurata's products tried Kurata fish-boning tweezers and removed
horse mackerel bones.
「These tweezers can quickly remove fishbones.」 The chef said.
The chef who had been making raw fish cuisine for more than 40 years pulled out fish bones rhythmically saying 「Look」.
While we were absorbed in watching a vivid way of using hands, the work ended in no time.

These can also peel outer skin of fish.

All the bones were taken out and the next he peeled skin of the horse mackerel.
”Tweezers are convenient not only for fish boning but also for peeling fish outer skin” The chef told us so.
He picked skin of the head of the horse mackerel with them and he peeled it
smoothly.
Soon beautiful Otsukuri (sliced raw fish) was completed.
Blue-skinned fish such as horse mackerel and mackerel or sardine are not only delicious, but also contain nutrients richly as follows:

○EPA making blood into fluent and clean blood and preventing high blood pressure
○High quality protein giving vitality to a body
○DHA said that it makes the work of the brain lively and prevents aging
and so on..

Kurata's tweezers will be good partners with you when making fish dishes which are delicious, and good for your health!

The crafting process [Fishboning tweezers]

Even Mr. Kurata who is skilled meister can make about ten pairs of tweezers per day at most. While adjusting the thickness with sense of his eyes and fingers, he completes a work called "Edo handmade tweezers" through 30 or more process.
He also inherits skillful way of fingerwork.

(1) Selection of material, hammering.

The 18-8 stainless steel bar of 3 milimeters thick that has rust resistant is used for the material.
both ends of the bar are hammered at the beginning.
Then it is hammered carefully while it is turned upside down front and back to have spring in the middle. The process is to "eliminate the core of the material". This requires power adjustment skill.
It is hammered further and becomes to smooth surface.

(2)Punching, sanding, deburring, polishing.

The material that has been beaten-out is die-cut and a cross section and edge are sanded carefully and remove rough part called burr. This work makes smooth texture. Then it is polished with sand,cloth or rinen.

(3) Warpage adjusting, inscription, readjusting, nipping parts making, bending.

The warpage of the material is adjusted with his original machine.
Then a registered trademark "Yoshiyuki Kurata"is inscribed on it.
After the warpage readjusting, a pair of nipping parts is made.
Finally it is bent at the center and the form is adjusted.

(4)Surface shining, teeth(nipping parts)sanding, teeth adjustment, grinding

Using buff of 4 types (sand, linen, yarn, cloth)makes smooth surface.
Then the teeth parts catching a hair are sanded with files of three kinds of roughness (rough, medium, fine).
After confirming the resilience of the spring and shape, and a pair of teeth is adjusted to fit close.
The nipping faces of teeth parts are ground with a grind stone and finally a pair of tweezers is completed.

The skills of tweezers making is used for these fish boning tweezers.

These are tweezers which are based on the tweezers made out of bivalve which were supposed to be used between the common people in Japan and are handmade with hammering technology in Edo era.
The 18-8 stainless steel plate of 3mm thickness is hammered 500 times or more and these are produced by hand one by one. His craftsmanship that went beyond the limits of the mechanical press and in fiscal Heisei 9 year his skills were esteemed and he won the "traditional craft skills Achievement Award" from Arakawa Word in Tokyo.