Blade Buddy

Thanks for buying the blade buddy. As you might note this page is hiding away in a corner of my sharpening business. Once sales pick-up i’ll launch a proper website as I already have the domain. But feel free to have a look around.

The history

The blade buddy hasn’t always been called the blade buddy. When it first popped into existence it was called the blade push.

I made it as a sharpener for a customer who kept flicking the cutters out of her clipper blades when she was trying to clean her blades. She was calling me out too often which made me try to think of a solution as I am a terrible businessmen who tries to find permeant solutions to customer problems instead of taking advantage of them.

I thought of various complicated solutions to limit the travel of the cutter but as there is so many different shapes and sizes of clipper blades. I could not think of any good solutions. There is another blade cleaning jig on the market which is exceedingly complicated and if something is difficult, you won’t use it.

I then came to it from another direction. Instead of trying to limit the travel of the cutter, let's limit the travel of the thing pushing the cutter.

That turned out to be quite easy with some slightly clever geometry around common features of clipper blades.

I took the prototype to the customer and they loved it.

This made me feel a bit more confident in the design so I sent out a few more out to some more groomers and the feedback was again excellent.

And so the blade push popped into existence and I sold it online via my company website mostly via Facebook groomer groups.

2 years later with me selling 4 or 5 a week and a few other 3D printing projects doing well I managed to get myself a much better 3D printer.

This let me go from making 8 to 10 at a time to making 30 at a time.

This lets me push the blade push out into other retailers

And why the name change? A groomer said she loved her blade buddy and I thought I was a significantly better name so it stuck.