The info wore off the grip and I do not recall what it was. I think it was a German brand. These have been one of my favorite tools for a decade. The jaws are much more narrow than what is typical for side cutters and these handle like a surgeon’s scalpel. Best of all, they can be sharpened many many times. Unfortunately, these are getting close to end of life from all of my sharpening and pivot pin wear. I want to get another set, but I have never been able to figure out the brand to find them again. They were given to me by a tech for a computerized Guru bicycle fit machine we had installed in one of our bike shops in 2012.
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Might be Bestools - Japanese.
http://www.bestools.net/page4?product_category=6
It says pliers, but some are cutters, wrenches, various other tools.
Might be Greenlee, they like dark green branding. Their adjustable wire stripper is my go-to. Very good stuff, though pricey.
https://www.amazon.sg/Marbee-MIN-125-Mini-Nipper-inches/dp/B00ADX7OBW
Also showing up a couple places as the brand “Marubi”
“Best tool co ltd” both sounds like it could be some generic no-name brand, or an OG manufacturing titan who still makes stuff that lasts. The brand sounds vaguely familiar to me, but more googling isn’t bringing anything up… I might be remembering Festool, which conveniently rhymes with Besttool.
Marubi would be the romanized spelling of the Japanese word. Marbee is probably anglicized.
In hiragana the word would be written as まるび.
Given how maru can be used in Japanese when preceding another word I’m guessing Marubi translates to Maru = Best, Bi = Tool for BestTool.
That’s what I suspected with the name, and I tried to do a little poking with some translators, but it wasn’t really working as I had no understanding of the correlation between the syllabic spelling vs the hiragana. Thanks for the little breakdown!
I’m just shocked I remember as much as I do from my high school Japanese class. It’s been decades but it’s still rattling around in there.
In a fun twist, the circumscribed “B” logo also fits maru (circle) bi (B).
A la circle K/marukei.
I was able to find it with a reverse image search: Marbee MIN-125 Mini Nipper, 4.9 inches (125 mm)
Here you go op.
Brand: BestTool Marbee MIN-125 Mini Nipper, 4.9 inches (125 mm)
Put that in your search
The handles are a little chunkier than yours but Knipex makes some high quality replacements.
I have several. The orange handled ones are likely most similar to Knipex. These are much more clunky though. They are good for many things and are much more sturdy for things like house wiring. The ones I asked about in the post are much smaller feeling in the hand. They feel like a precision tool unlike any other side cutters I have used. I can strip enamel off of magnet wire with just the hand feel of these when they are sharp and new. The ultra thin handle profile just works in really tight spaces, like putting my index finger on the rivet to hold the jaws on the flat surface and fingertip touching the handles together without gripping the handles. They feel light and well shaped like this type of mobile dexterity was by design. The guy that gave them to me only had very high end tools and was out of Europe.
Bottom row are super useful. I almost never use the tops
C/donotputyourdickinthat
Looks like a sprue cutter.
