Hobby knife blade holder
I love a good “cutty tool,” and there’s nothing quite like using the right X-ACTO knife for the job at hand. However, I didn’t like the storage option provided by the X-ACTO Basic Knife Set. Getting the blades in and out of the plastic shell was a bit fraught and I often had to use a pin to assist with prying the blade out.
One of the few features I did like about the basic knife set’s box was the magnetic strip that helped keep the blades in place. I decided to borrow this feature for a new design that made getting blades in and out of a holder easier and safer.
After a few iterations, I realized that I could design a compartment for a blade that had a raised center with a magnetic strip so that pressing on either end of the blade would pivot on the center fulcrum and made handling the blade easier to do. I designed a “card” to hold a total of eight blades and made sure that multiple cards could be stacked neatly with a fillet along the top and bottom perimeters.
I fit the 13mm (~1/2in) magnetic strips in the holder and loaded the blades up. This print came out super clean and it’s one of my self-designed things that I really love using.