From a sketch to a product on the shelf.
Concept to production for a wide range of products, with tools, knives, and EDC gear among the most common. Bring a napkin sketch, a cardboard template, a 2D drawing, or full CAD. We meet you where you are.
One engineer & designer from idea to production
- Concept development from whatever you have: sketch, template, photo, 2D, or 3D.
- Production CAD in SolidWorks, with drawings you own.
- Design for manufacturing from day one, so the prototype is already buildable at volume.
- 3D-printed prototypes for early rounds, like ergonomics testing, so those first iterations cost far less than machining.
- Prototype iterations machined in-house, in the real material and finish.
- A clear path to production: here, or as a clean drawing package for your own supplier.
No CAD? No problem.
Plenty of good products start on paper. Send a photo of the sketch, a cardboard cut-out, or a part you want improved. We turn it into a model, then a prototype you can hold.
Prototypes that feel like the product
Prototypes are cut from the production material, so you judge weight, feel, and finish, not a plastic stand-in. Test batches can go to real users first, like our Rook test batch in 7075 aluminum.
SE Products is the portfolio.
C33 carabiner
Designed, prototyped, machined, and sold by the same engineer. During prototyping we settled the finish per material: aluminum bodies get black hard-coat anodize, titanium bodies and the flush modular gate are tumbled.
Utilizer
Replaceable-blade utility knife, now on Rev 2.2.
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C238
One-piece 6Al-4V titanium carabiner and multitool with an integral preloaded gate.
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HookUp Milli
One-piece Grade 5 titanium carabiner, the largest of three sizes.
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The Rook
Key dangler and multitool, built to pair with the HookUp Micro.
View in store →More designs: Alchemist and Cartographer titanium frame-lock folders with MagnaCut blades, C33 slim carabiner with a flush modular Ti gate, HookUp Nano, HookUp Micro, Utilizer Compact, and Alchemist Customs.
Got a sketch? Send it.
Send a drawing, a sketch, or just a description. The engineer who will make the part reads it first and comes back with questions or a quote.