Precision Grip-Grip it, don't launch it! When tweezers let go, Precision Grip won't. The most over-engineered precision locking tweezers on the planet

Name: Precision Grip-Grip it, don't launch it! When tweezers let go, Precision Grip won't. The most over-engineered precision locking tweezers on the planet
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Precision Grip-Grip it, don't launch it! When tweezers let go, Precision Grip won't. The most over-engineered precision locking tweezers on the planet

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(Free gift)Leather Kit

Need more space? Then the kit is for you, storing up to three Precision Grips, ten extra jaws (5 sets), and extra room for accessories (or even more jaws if you need it), this fella is ready to hold some serious kit! All bound in top grain leather with brass fixings and stitched with high tensile thread. This kit is styled like tool kits from the 40’s and is built to take some serious use.

Precision Grip

The most over-engineered precision locking tweezers on the planet! Powered by a lost mechanism from 1912 and combined with modern engineering, this brand new patented gripster is a tool for a new era of tiny creations.

A New Class Of Gripping Tool

The Precision Grip takes away the fiddly frustration of working on small parts so you can just enjoy the making.

Grip It, Don't Launch It

Taking tweezers a step further, these guys are made not just to pick up small parts but to hold them on your own terms while you work on them.

No more will your preloaded soldering tongs relegate that tiny part to the carpet monster, never to be seen again!

Why Have We Created MetMo Precision Grip?

In a world where everything is getting smaller, why have the tools for our miniatures stayed the same? And WHY are we still using things made for dentists to work on our projects?!

We need better, and that’s why we’ve created a whole new class of gripping tool, the Precision Grip. A tool inspired by the classics we love, with a modern engineering edge, because your little bits deserve more.

What Can It Do?

Need to hold a toy shark down? It might happen... but seriously,

Metal work, model making, miniatures, and more - Precision Grip isn’t a one hit wonder, it can be used in a multitude of ways! Whether you want to softly hold your Emperor’s Champion to give him a fresh lick of paint, or you need to grip some steel and get soldering, Precision Grip allows you to swap between jaws and perfectly calibrate your pressure, so nothing will escape your clutches again.

Still Works Like Tweezers

Sorting through screws and just want the speed and precision of tweezers? We've got you covered. Set the jaws open slightly and a spring loaded mechanism gives you a smooth and satisfying tiny pinch, perfect for quickly sorting your tiny bits so you can stay focused on what you're doing.

3 Grips In 1

Every millimetre of the Precision Grip has been considered and every surface, edge or spare nubbin has been utilised. You're not just carrying tweezers, this is a utilitarian gripping tool that locks on and doesn't let go.

Who's It For?

Creators and makers - this is for you! This is a tool that doesn’t just grip plastics and isn’t just great at making miniatures, it’s also robust enough for working with metal, solder, electronic components, securing fixings… if it's small and fiddly stuff you're working on, then this takes away the fiddly!

Or maybe you just appreciate fine engineering, great mechanisms and the satisfaction that you have every tool for any occasion in your arsenal of tools (although you'll probably want to keep this out on your desk to marvel at).

Built To Last

Every part is precision machined from premium metals and totally over engineered, just like the tools of old. Inspired by Victorian engineering, we asked why can’t we make things that still work in 200 years time? So that’s what we do, and that’s how we design. Then we hold ourselves to it by giving you that same 200 year guarantee, so it can be passed down to future generations of young tinkerers.

Holding Steady

These are designed to lock on and hold what you're working on with more stability than anything else out there, so you can work at new levels of untold precision.

The Great Mechanical Advantage

We've adapted a drive screw normally used in high precision machining equipment and miniaturised it. We've harnessed that combination of precision and speed and channelled it into pure clamping power, so you can hold what you're working on without it slipping; perfect for your mission critical detail work.

You Control The Pressure

A special patent pending process applies a micro grip surface texture to the very tips of the nibs. It feels like shaking hands with a gecko, but in miniature! Those small, smooth parts just get that extra bit of grip while you're working on them, stopping your bits from slipping or firing across your room.

Sits In The Hand Like Dooku's Lightsaber

The body houses a lot of features, but doesn’t comprise on comfort. Precision Grip is designed to be held and used for long periods of time, so you can focus on what you're doing and lose yourself in your work without ending up with the dreaded claw. Shaped to sit in your palm like a mechanical hand upgrade, you won't even know the meaning of repetitive strain injury.

Gentle Jaws

We were sick and tired of alligator grips denting and damaging parts, and let’s face it - they were never designed for gripping your delicates in the first place. The Precision Grips have micro textured smooth tips that grip without damage, combined with an adjuster you can dial in to exactly the right amount of pressure you need, keeping your work destruction free.

These are the first specially designed grips for fine work that aren't just surgical or electrical tools that have been repurposed and bodged to do fine work.

Reposition With Confidence

No more tweezer troubles when trying to reposition your work. Ever had that moment when you've just picked something up, you move your hand around, and… yep, it's lost. That momentary loss of pressure just allowed it to slip away. Never again with the Precision Grip, as it will hold its grip for an eternity.

Grip Tiny Features

Get a fine grip on any exposed nubbin, so you can find new ways to work. More points to hold things means more freedom and less frustration, so you can enjoy more of what you're doing.

Hold Steady Wire You Work

The grooviest grip around! The set of three v-grooves in the centre of the Precision Grip are for forming and holding wire, so the grip can be converted into a makeshift stand for your parts while you work on them. That right there is multi-purpose comfort.

All Bent Into Shape

Form your assorted lengths of wire from your wire drawer! Using the rigid v-grooves, get those tricky bits of wire into shape to support your project, all from one tool.

A Gentle Pinch

The closest thing to a mechanical finger we can get. Replaceable silicone inserts let you very softly pinch something and hold it steady, perfect for when it’s less about power and more about finesse.

The Right Nib For The Job

With each metal variant, you can switch out the business end so you can adapt to what you're working on. Or, if you've just managed to weld your nibs together somehow, they can be easily swapped out for new ones without the need to buy a whole new tool.

Get The Inside Scoop

Swap your standard ends for the reverse jaws and nip on the cavities of your parts. With the same specially designed grippy structure to hold those unholdable small parts in a whole new way while you work on them.

Precision Grip is easy to adjust and re-position on the internal and previously ungrippable surfaces, giving you more control so you can paint every surface and access every detail.

Get Into Difficult Spaces

The pointy needle nose jaws are designed to be robust, but also nimble enough so that you can get into small spaces and pick up those tiny parts that have found an excellent hiding space.

Doctor, Doctor, I've Lost My Grip!

Are you thinking 'if only this was safe for surgical use and I could clean it in an autoclave?' Well, you're in luck! We've made a fully surgical stainless steel version just for that purpose. This is designed to withstand corrosion and the most stringent working conditions possible, so if you want hardcore durability, this is your tool.

Handy Handle

When you're working on small parts, sometimes you just want the ease of holding something a bit bigger. The Precision Grip takes away the fiddly frustration of working on small parts, so you can just enjoy the making.

Return Of The Tinkerer

Leave your work and return to it later on and know it will be exactly where you left it. No more fiddling around to get things set up again every time you want a sip of tea.

Give Your Fingers A Break

No need to turn your hand into a seized pincher! Let mechanics do the work for you and relegate the aches and pains to yesteryear.

Perfectly Calibrate Your Pressure

Never before have you been able to dial in the amount of pressure you're putting on a fine point with this much precision and hold things so they don’t slip without a spring-loaded tension that launches your parts across the room. Just a calm, constant clamping force of your choosing.

Use As A Miniature Desk Vice

Its vice-like grip lets you use it as… well… a vice! Set it up on its side, or clamp it in our quick release mount and you have yourself a precision vice that can act as your tiny third hand while you solder, file, paint or fettle whatever you're working on. Its strong hold gives you the freedom to work exactly how you like.

A Third Pinch

You might have a third hand already, but this is more like a third pinch. When you just need an extra finger and thumb combo to hold your part and then use both hands to do the delicate stuff, so you can focus on what you're doing.

A Sturdy Barrel

The whole design hinges on a solid barrel. This unique design prevents sideways movement while you clamp, keeping the needle nose perfectly aligned for pin point accuracy and stopping any twisting like you'd get in conventional tweezer clamps. Grip in confidence.

Use To Solder

Got a couple of parts you need to hold while you're soldering? No problem, these grips can act exactly like soldering tweezers and nip things in place while you solder them up, without damaging the ends.

We might have bashed soldering grips a fair bit, but I think it’s justified..

Lightweight

Two lightweight designs in aluminium and titanium give you a nimble tool you won’t want to put down, so you won’t pick up any extra strain from using this all day.

Perfectly Balanced

Taking inspirations from fine writing instruments we've balanced these grips to feel like a natural extension of your hand, letting you get directly onto what you're working on and making them a joy to use.

Ambidextrous Gripping

Use in your left or the right hand, so you don’t have to sacrifice any functionality or miss out on any features. It just works however you work.

Pro Tips

Standard Jaws - Solid all-round jaws for most jobs, come already installed.
Fine Point Jaws - For working on delicate, tiny, or thin parts that don’t need as much pinching power.
Needle Nose Jaws - Ideal for getting into difficult spaces and using as spring loaded tweezers.
Reverse Grip Jaws - Great if you work on a lot of difficult shapes so you can clamp on the inside of an item, but still lets you use them like the standard jaws. Slightly thicker, to give you the same gripping power as the standard jaws.
Angled Reverse Grip Jaws - The same as the above but at a new angle, great for painting parts or when you need to reposition your piece a lot.

Hardened Stainless Steel Tips

Only the finest hardened stainless steel for our jaws! They're extremely durable and have the strength to remain rigid while giving out some serious clamping force. They won’t bend, wear, or let you down when you need them. Supplied demagnetised and ready to be put through their paces.

Tips of Titan

Upgrade any of the grips with titanium tips: lighter than steel, naturally non-magnetic, and extremely resistant to corrosion. Perfect if you're working on an acid farm or splitting amoebas.

Need a specialist set of fine point jaws for working with hot stuff? Need to keep magnetism to a minimum while working on PCB’s or watches? Or maybe you just want the bragging rights that come with titanium? Then these are the tips for you.

Endlessly Custom Jaws

Working in a weird and wonderful world where organic shapes have taken over and no tool in the known universe could possibly hope to grip what you are working on?

Yeah, we've been there… but fear not weary tinkerer! You can attach your own customised 3D printed nippers, so nothing will escape your clutches again!

We've started off the customising with our Round Base Holder (available as an add-on) and will be releasing a CAD file in a future update for the attachment point so you can print your own weird and wonderful clampy things. The world is your perfectly clamped oyster.

Full Service History

Like everything here at MetMo, you can strip down the Precision Grip to get to each component and screw for easy maintenance and repair, letting you keep your grip in top working condition for lifetimes to come. This is a tool you only need to buy once.

Material Options

Aerospace Grade Aluminium

(Stainless Steel Standard Jaws Included As Standard)

If you're working in plastics and are more about lightweight nips over maximum clamping force, this one is for you.

Lightweight and the same grade of aluminium used in a space shuttle's solid rocket booster nozzles, this is metal you use when it really matters. For aluminium it doesn’t get much tougher than this. Hard anodised in black, this will give you years of corrosion free everyday use.

Surgical Stainless Steel

(Stainless Steel Standard Jaws Included As Standard)

Nope, that image is not in black and white! Every component is made from high chromium steel capable of withstanding an autoclave. This is designed to withstand corrosion and the most stringent working conditions possible. If you want hardcore durability, this is your tool.

Grade 5 Titanium

(Grade 5 titanium standard jaws included as standard)

The Titanium option exists purely because we can. That perfect blend of light weight, strong, and a dimension of unobtanium. The peak of engineering excellence. No one makes titanium tools like we do, blending the best metals to get the best results, like a McLaren P1 exhaust manifold. Even the jaws are titanium in this guy.

Technical Data

Weights:
Aluminium = 70.3g
Stainless Steel = 114.5g
Titanium = 83.3g

Size:
134mm (5.3") x 29mm (1.15") x 16mm (0.63")

Maximum Clamping Force:
5kg - with greater finger power, comes even greater clamping potential.

Pin Point Opening Distance: 21mm (0.82")
Silicone Opening Distance: 14.7mm (0.57")
Round Clamp Max Distance: 5.5mm (0.2")

Finish: Heat treated brushed stainless steel, hard anodised black aluminium, brushed brass.

High tensile fixings

Every part of the Precision Grips have been considered down to each screw. Specialist high tensile fixings are used throughout so they're just as high performing as the rest of the tool. No part will let you down, and it'll go on to last for generations to come.

A Powerful Pinch!

At the tip, Precision Grip generates around 80 bar of pressure, comparable to the bite pressure of a spotted hyena…

We can achieve this because of our specially designed jaws which are incredibly strong right down to the fine tip, so the mechanical advantage you're able to apply to such a small area is incredibly high (1,160 psi to be precise!).

Overpowered, some might say... Yes, yes it is.

What's MetMo Made Of?

No cheap underrated knock off metals here. OK, so we might go a bit overboard with the specs on what we use. Does it need the same aerospace grade aluminium used in wing spars? Does it need stainless steel that can withstand an autoclave? Is the highest commercially available grade of titanium you can buy outside of military really necessary if you're not going into space?

Well, let’s be honest, no. But damn does it make a really nice tool that will outlast everything else, and that you can pass down generations. Who knows, by that time maybe we'll all be space faring and they'll need the lightweight Precision Grip to get them out of a bind.

If you're working mainly in plastics you will love the lightweight versatility of the aluminium. If you're working with harder stuff or just want something that will be found in the bedrock of a new society one day, then Stainless Steel is for you. If you're Titanium obsessed and want the best of both then ride that Ti train out of metal town.

Testing

Our process is one of caution and vigilance. Every part is questioned, tested, and re-tested as we make it. We normally do a destruction test to push our tools to absolute breaking point, and concentrate on maximum torque load. For this precision instrument that felt a bit like using a pair of callipers as a hammer, so we opted for some different tests… Mostly!

These consist of a mixture of gripping tests and tensile material tests in both real world and simulated environments to make sure these grips last our 200 years.

Starting with the pinch! Comfortable gripping force with human hands maxed out at 4.9kg of force that can be applied at the very tips of the grip. Early on we used these tests to ensure the whole thing had a little bit of flex in the product but not too much so things are gripped tight but not destroyed.

Our tests were conducted on the first 3mm of the jaws, where 4.9 kg of clamping force concentrated through just 6mm² is the equivalent to around 80 bar of contact pressure or 1,160 psi.

Here we are testing the clamping force with a specially designed rig we built to measure total grip force, as well as the stability of the hold over longer periods of time.

By comparison, standard tweezers max out around 2.7kg, but the old standard tweezers look a bit sorry for themselves at this level and that amount of deflection isn't good for holding anything.

Working through these kind of tests, and combining this knowledge with the experience of developing four other grippy projects with a variety of clamping threads, we designed our very own version of a trapezoidal thread that gives the Precision Grip power, speed, and control in a very tight space.

In simulated environments we had the advantage that we could subject each individual part to extreme stress situations, and we're doing some of that here!

We were looking for repeated strain points and possible areas for failure. During development we did this kind of simulation repeatedly to remove the weak points until we got to the finished design that we know will go on pinching for years to come.