About Us

We make things.

We just try not to call them that. They have names like Swingtop Lighter, Chroma Scissors, and Wilson Keyring.

On any given Tuesday, someone on our design team — led by co-founder Hunter — has a pair of calipers out. Someone else is passionately arguing for a hinge angle. Desks are covered in sketches and design books, plus a prototype that was almost right and is now headed for the archive. Onward.

That devotion to iteration, precision, and simply getting it right is how we make objects we want to live with. Pieces that work so well, for so long, and with enough quiet joy that they start to feel like extensions of ourselves.

Too many daily objects have gone cheap, less effective, or simply dull. You pick them up and feel nothing except a faint disappointment. That is a real shame, and it is something we will not accept.

Our answer is to make objects that meet the needs of the everyday, every day — and ideally a long while after that. That is why we call the warranty the For Life Guarantee.

We have been doing this in our little corner of North Brooklyn since 2015. Even if we were not here making these objects, we would still be somewhere wishing they were in our lives.

If someone’s going to do it, why not us?

CraighillW is operated by Ridge & Caliper LLC. Studio mail: 64 Meserole Avenue Suite 2, Brooklyn, NY 11222. +1 (718) 383-4721. [email protected].