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The animal decides if it works
Every prototype went home with a real pet — a rescue lurcher, three barn cats, a Persian who bites. If they tolerated it, we kept it. Lab numbers came second.
2019 — a broken clipper
It started with a terrier who wouldn't sit still.
Bruno hated the clippers. Not the haircut — the clippers. The moment the motor started he was under the table, and no amount of treats moved him.
We assumed it was the noise. It wasn't, or not only. When we put an accelerometer on six popular clippers we found the same thing every time: a high-frequency buzz travelling straight through the housing into the hand, and from the hand into the dog. The sound was a symptom. The vibration was the problem.
Two years went into the motor mounts before we drew a single line of the outer shell.
What we hold to
Three rules we don't bend.
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Repairable, or we don't ship it
Blades come off with a thumb. Batteries are replaceable. Combs are sold singly. A clipper that dies because one $4 part wore out is a design failure, not a sales opportunity.
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One product, done properly
There is no Glide P2 waiting in a drawer to make yours obsolete. We'd rather improve the P1 and let you keep the one you have.
Materials
Aluminium, ceramic, and as little plastic as we could manage.
- Recycled aluminium core. It carries the motor mounts and doubles as a heat sink, which is part of why the blade runs cool.
- Ceramic stationary blade. Harder than steel, doesn't conduct heat into the skin, and can be reground many times over.
- Paper-pulp packaging. Moulded, unbleached, recyclable kerbside. No foam, no plastic window, no glossy sleeve.
- Carbon-neutral delivery. Every shipment, at our cost, not as a checkbox at checkout.
The blade return programme
We take the blades back.
Send a dull head to our workshop in the prepaid sleeve that came in your box. We regrind the ceramic, re-coat the cutter, re-set the tension and post it back — free, for as long as you own the clipper. Blades too far gone are stripped for metal and the ceramic is milled into abrasive.
Since 2022 we've sharpened 11,400 heads and landfilled none.
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