Seki Edge Stainless Steel Fingernail Clipper SS-106

Seki City in Gifu Prefecture, Japan has been the center of Japanese blade-making for 800 years. The same metallurgical tradition that produces some of the world's finest kitchen knives also produces the Seki Edge SS-106 — a nail clipper that cuts so cleanly you won't need to file afterward.

The difference is immediate and startling. A drugstore clipper crushes and tears the nail; the Seki Edge shears it. The curved blade follows the natural arc of a fingernail, the spring tension is calibrated so you never overshoot, and the stainless steel won't dull or rust in a bathroom drawer.

At $18 it costs ten times what a generic clipper costs. You will never go back. Buy a second one for travel.