Students in BME 206 designed, drew, and then fabricated this set of low cost, small wire tensile tester grips. Its functions very well. It compromises correctly on being a little more difficult to load but is fabricated out of one piece of rod stock (plus a roll pin, screw, and washer). Students when shown the $700 commercial solution as an example, and with repeated prompting from me "simplify" did genuinely do the design. The students then machined the entire pair taking turns under supervision, on both the lathe and mill.