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Website. www.wrcase.com. W.R. Case & Sons Cutlery Company is an American manufacturer of traditional pocket knives, fixed blades/sporting knives, kitchen knives, limited edition commemoratives and collectibles. The company originated in Little Valley, New York, around the turn of the 20th century, before relocating to its current home, Bradford ...
Long magurobōchō, used to filet tuna at the Tsukiji fish market A magurobōchō in use at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. A magurobōchō (Japanese: 鮪包丁, lit. "tuna knife"), or magurokiribōchō (鮪切り包丁, lit. "tuna cutter kitchen knife"), is an extremely long, highly specialized Japanese knife that is commonly used to fillet tuna, as well as many other types of large ocean fish.
Cattaraugus Cutlery Company. The Cattaraugus Cutlery Company began as the New York distribution company J.B.F. Champlin and Son, founded by John Brown Francis Champlin and his son Tint in 1882. The Champlins expanded into knife production, and along with William R. Case and his brothers, they formed Cattaraugus Cutlery in 1886, based in Little ...
Cleaver. A cleaver is a large knife that varies in its shape but usually resembles a rectangular-bladed hatchet. It is largely used as a kitchen or butcher knife and is mostly intended for splitting up large pieces of soft bones and slashing through thick pieces of meat. The knife's broad side can also be used for crushing in food preparation ...
History. From the late 18th century to the mid-1840s, the butcher knife was a key tool for mountain men. Simple, useful and cheap to produce, they were used for everything from skinning beaver, cutting food, self-defense, and scalping. During this time, John Wilson, of Sheffield, England, was a major exporter of this type of knife to the ...
A fishmonger prepares to clean and butcher a pair of large fish in Malé. The tools used by fishmongers include: [2] Pliers to pull out pinbones; A fish scaler to remove scales; A filleting knife to cut away the flesh from the bones; Short strong knives for opening oysters and other shellfish; Protective gloves; A curved knife for gutting and ...
Species: X. nigri. Binomial name. Xenomystus nigri. ( Günther, 1868) The African brown knifefish ( Xenomystus nigri) is the only species in the genus Xenomystus of the family Notopteridae. This fish is found in the Chad, Nile, Congo, Ogowe and Niger basins, as well as coastal river basins in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Togo, Benin and Cameroon. [ 1]
The clown featherback (Chitala ornata), also known as the clown knifefish and spotted knifefish, is a nocturnal species of tropical fish with a long, knife-like body. This knifefish is native to freshwater habitats in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Laos, Macau, Thailand, and Vietnam, [2] but it has also been introduced to regions outside its native range. [1]