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By supporting Choku Fish project you get yourself unique and multifunctional chopsticks helper and an opportunity to help one man's dream come true!

Choku Fish is the only chopsticks helper that is designed specifically in "sushi" style, where raw seafood is a priority.

Fish shape accomplishes several tasks, first of all it is a chopsticks helper:

Choku Fish will serve as headphones wire organiser:

And a simply cool keychain resting with your keys, so you won't leave your fellow Choku Fish at home next time you visit Asian cuisine:

I am sure you will find other ways of using Choku Fish!

What makes Choku Fish so special?

Choku Fish is truly unique chopsticks helper. It is made from top grade, food contact approved thermoplastic materials. Choku Fish is produced in two stages:

Stage 1- Inner part is molded. Inner parts are called Choku Bone. Choku Bone is the core of the fish and pretty much does all the job- holding chopsticks. Here is how it looks like:

Stage 2- Inner part is overmolded with soft TPE (thermoplastic elastomer) material to form fish shape. TPE with SHORE 30A is used- with less technical words it means that it is pretty soft. You can see here how Choku Bone is overmolded with TPE:

Here is the process itself.

Stage 1- Producing Choku Bones:

Stage 2- Choku Bones are then inserted into overmolding mold:

30 seconds later Choku Fish is done:

CHOKU BONE

So, as you could already imagine Choku Bone is a part of Choku Fish and does the trick of holding chopsticks. It is not as multi funcitonal as Choku Fish, but does the job!

So next time you are visiting Asian cuisine- you'll be covered!

Choku Fish and Choku Bone are available in 5 different colors!

OUR STORY

Initially Choku Fish project started in 2012. Back then initial design was developed together with a company in China, who also was producing Choku Fishes. And Choku Fishes were produced down in China for 4 years. During that period we were slowly purchasing our own manufacturing equipment for producing Choku Fishes ourself, here in Denmark. We purchased two injection molding machines and were ready for the next step.

In 2016 we got our own tooling for producing Choku Fishes. And here our journey started. We had a lot of issues with manufacturing technique and materials. They way er manufacture Choku Fishes is different form what has been used in China. In China HTV Silicone was used. But we are using TPE for overmolding.

So we had to completely re-think Choku Fish design and materials. We had to change our molds (injection molding tools) 3 times. After every change we were experimenting with materials to find the right combination, but we only succeeded on 3-rd time.

But now we are finished prototyping and changing our tools. Choku Fish transformed into a better product than initial design we were producing 4 years ago with Chinese Company!

It took us almost 2 years, tons of coffee and lot sleepless nights doing these design and mold changes, figuring out the process of manufacturing and materials! And now we are ready to present you our own Choku Fish, proudly made in DENMARK!

With all these mold changes and tests, we figured out that inner parts of Choku Fishes work on their own and that is how Choku Bone was born. So not only we developed Choku Fish V2, but we also came up with a new product- Choku Bone.

Here is how Choku Fish is different from what it used to be before to how it looks like today:

Choku Fish V2 is more rigid and holds chopsticks in a much better way! V2 is made from different materials than V2 and what is most important- it is us who is manufacturing these, locally in Denmark! We are very proud to bring Choku Fishes V2 and Choku Bones to the market with this Kickstarter campaign!

Here is our timeline overview with big milestones:

Choku Fish V2 is ready and being produced now for our Kickstarter backers, but we are missing still couple more steps. In order for Choku Fish and Choku Bone to be a complete product and meant for humans- we need to pack them into the right packages. We have everything ready for that step, we know what machine we need and we have designed the packages. We only miss you as our contributors!

Here are our packages that we want to release together with Choku Fish and Choku Bone:

MEET US AND VISIT OUR FACTORY:

LET ASIAN CUISINE CHALLENGE YOUR TASTE, NOT SKILLS

HERE IS WHAT WE OFFER AS REWARDS

KICKSTARTER SPECIAL DEALS AND PLEDGE CHALLENGE

Now as we 100% funded we would like to make some special cool stuff for you guys! We created some very special things!

RAL1004 GOLDEN YELLOW

We revealed a golden colour for you guys!

It is going to be our promotional special colol and it will not be our standard color. So grab yourself a golden Choku Fish as a Kickstarter Special!

And exclusively for all our backer we will include 1 Golden Choku Fish for free with all our pledges, except pledges with 1 Choku Bone and 1 Choku Fish.

GLOW IN THE DARK

We revealed GLOW IN THE DARK Choku Fishes!

Do we have to say more? - THEY ARE SIMPLY COOL !!! :-)

One thing to note is that by adding Glow In The Dark possibility Choku Fishes will become not approved for direct food contact. So don't boild soup from Choku Fish!!!

Note that it is only not food contact approved- just like any other glow in the dark product, but it is still good to be used for the purpose it is designed for- toy for kids, chopsticks holder and all the good stuff. Just try not to stick it into the food :-)

BUBBLEGUM scent

As promised, we want to share our knowledge and possibilities of plastics with you! Another cool feature of plastic is adding scent (smell). Don't worry- Choku Fish won't smell like bad fish :-) it's opposite- it will smell like that legendary scent of bubblegum. But, be advised- it might spoil your Asian kitchen experience as it will trick your brain and you will not taste the real taste of food. But it is very cool and you can even get yourself one for the car, it will work like "wunderbaum". :-)

But let's get over 12,5k DKK so you can experience it yourself.