The trickiest part of this build was getting the feel right. The maker went through several revisions to nail down jaw alignment, grip strength and spring stiffness, and also tested PETG for the spring before settling on PLA, which gave a much firmer bite in their tests. That willingness to iterate until the clamping action feels correct is what separates this from a first-draft print.
The construction is neat. Two identical jaws meet at interlocking pivot ridges, and a separate printed spring presses into a slot at the handle end. The whole thing snaps together with no screws or glue, and every part, spring included, is PLA. It printed on an A1 with a 0.4 mm nozzle at 0.20 mm layers, using 3 walls, no supports, and the spring at 100% infill. A finished clip weighs 5.76 g and takes around 18 minutes to print, or roughly 25 minutes with preparation.
A few details stand out to me. Because the spring is its own part, swapping in a fresh one after wear is simple, and printing the pieces separately makes two-tone colour pairings easy. The assembly shown uses orange jaws with a white spring, and there is also a finished blue and white version. Keeping the assembly video easy to follow was clearly a goal.
The open question is lifespan. Long-term durability testing is still ongoing, so nobody can say yet how many months of kitchen duty these will survive. For now the maker's own clip is holding a bag of tortellini shut, with the bag top folded over a couple of times first, which sounds like a sensible way to use it.