Veer

Xacto cutters are painful to use in a precision grip. Since a high percentage of cutting jobs are of straight lines, can we find a more comfortable grip?

Finding Issues

Architects were using grips made for pencils and anchoring with their finger in order to apply force.

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Power Grip

Precision Grip

Refining form

With one edge to glide along a ruler and another to keep cuts perpendicular to the cutting surface, a handle-like form revealed itself.

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Release Button

Injection-molded Polypropylene

Pantone Q390

Lock/ Spring

Blade Sheath