Description
The Nippes 37sr and 9sr tweezers are hand ground, making them unique as everybody else uses computerized machining. You can feel the craftsmanship of a small family-owned company, even in something the Germans can put out to market for a fairly low cost.
Mildly ‘frosted’, textured gripping zone.
For some reason they’re officially “SR”, both, yet only have the # and an “R” embossed upon ’em; go figure the Germans and all their numbers. Maybe the ess is always implied.
The “R” denotes that these are the INOX Rostfrei stainless steel versions. In this country (USA), everybody wants stainless steel. That’s what sells. When trying to sell any carbon steel tool in America that’s not a straight razor, it doesn’t matter how good the product is (even when it is a bit better than the stainless versions because of carbon steel’s metallurgical advantages) or even if the buyer lives in Nevada (where it’d never matter anyways) or has a nickel sensitivity (stainless steel tools necessarily have more nickel, even than carbon steel tools with nickel plating, and if used daily as with hairstylists/nail techs, ~0.5% will develop redness/reactions on the fingertips). If two versions of the same tool only change by the metallurgical formula, we buy the stainless one. In the rarer cases where a singularly unique item’s offered only in carbon steel, such as with a crown scissor or a ‘stork’ scissor, we’ll just buy that, obviously.
Stainless steel does have one other meaningful advantage; it can be subjected to steam-sterilization (important in professional settings like nail salons, but of no consequence for home use).
