Professional Splinter Removal Kit

Recently I found myself extracting a tiny glass splinter from my wife’s foot with dull Swiss army knife set of tweezers and a needle borrowed from her sewing kit. The splinter was so small, I couldn’t even see it until I realized I had a headset magnifier in the shop that I use when sharpening saws. With the headset I was at least able to see the tiny splinter, but my primitive tool made the splinter extraction an unnecessarily laborious and painful half an hour of work. I got the splinter out – but just. I know the value of having the right tool for the task, so the next day I moseyed on over to my local medical supply shop and asked for a decent set of tweezers for extracting splinters. The shop said, first of all, they are called “forceps,” and second, we have a kit that doctors and EMS people use for this exact purpose.

The tweezers, excuse me forceps, have a tiny tip, and you can grip down easily and securely. Instead of a flexible pin or sewing needle, the kit comes with a real tool, a triangular steel probe, with a sturdy handle that won’t flex at the wrong moment. The probe unscrews and stores safely in the handle.

I keep my set in the medicine chest, so next time I get a splinter, there won’t be a mad dash to find a needle and tweezers. I also won’t have to mangle my fingers getting the splinter out. The forceps and probe are shipped in a small cardboard presentation box.

“The kit contains professional medical-grade tools for this very job: a beautiful set of tweezers – or, forceps, as the professionals call them – and a sturdy, sharp, steel probe that stores in its own handle. These two small additions have been a major upgrade to my tool kit. The forceps have small, pointy tips and are grooved for extra grip. Unlike a needle, which can bend, the probe is rigid as well as sharp, making those particularly hard to remove splinters more accessible. These tools definitely make extraction easier.” – Adam Godet, Fine Woodworking magazine, NOV/DEC 2021 Issue