Tool: Vepkuso Wide Jaw Stainless Steel Toenail Cutter
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Hey, I’m Donald Bell for Cool Tools and today I’m going to show you a particularly great and affordable nail clipper. I promise it won’t be gross. You can find a link to it down in the description.
Maybe it’s a gender thing, but I’m generally clueless about nail care or any nail cutting innovations.
Up until recently, the clippers I’ve used to trim my finger and toe nails are essentially an unchanged design from the ones I had growing up.
On a whim, went looking for some new clippers to keep in the garage. I’ll tell you more about that in a minute. What I found was this new breed of wide mouth clippers.
They’re manufactured under dozens of different brands, but the ones I got say Vepkuso on them. Judging from all the identical looking options under different names, I have to imagine there’s just one factory churning these out and slapping different brands on them.
If there’s an original, superior design these are all imitating, let me know in the comments.
They’re advertised as thick nail clippers, and you’ll notice that the jaws open up about twice as wide as conventional ones.
They’re able to do this by moving the spring mechanism from the head of the clipper to a little fold down leaf in the back.
This folds down for storage, with a little magnetic clasp that keeps it together. When you’re ready to use them, you just unfold the leaf and get to business.
These also came with a small file, which is useful. It took me a day or two to realize there was a protective film on the file that you need to remove, so look out for that.
Now as to why I keep these in the garage. I had an epiphany that the bathroom is actually a really inconvenient place to trim your nails -- especially your toenails.
You have to awkwardly sit somewhere and place a wastebasket under your foot and there’s always one or two that shoot onto the floor despite your best efforts.
So why not take the whole business outside? If you’re lucky enough to have a little outside space and decent weather, you can trim your nails out here and let the clippings fly with reckless abandon.
Because I have to pass through my garage on the way out to my yard, I just hang these here on a nail and grab them on my way out.
Maybe that’s a little life hack you can use too. Or maybe everybody already does this and a lifetime of apartment living prevented me from catching on until now.
Again, you can find a link to these clippers down in the description, and you can see thousands of reader recommended tools like these at Cool-Tools.org.
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I've been using an ultra thin small "backpacking" nail trimmer , it fits on my keychain so I just kind of use it when I'm outside as well, plus it doubles as a wire and ziptie cutter when needed since it's right there with my keys
I use the older style, but with a plastic cover to help catch the clippings. It doesn’t catch everything, but helps to keep them from flying all over. Clipping nails outside sounds nice, unless one lives in a climate with a cold winter.
I use a pair of diagonal cutters meant for electronics. I use the zero clearance type meant for cutting wires close to a circuit. They are very sharp so toe nails are easy and the larger handles make cutting thick toe nails no problem at all.
I do this too.
I also do my nail trimming outside. It's a life pro tip.
the pliers style ones are the best, thats what the professionals use and so do I even though Im not a pro!
I have used the pliers style clippers on my problematic toe nails. But my toe nail surfaces curve due to psoriasis. The pliers type must start positioned vertical. This has become much more difficult for me. I bought a pair of this clipper. 1st time I used it, it cur the shit out of several toes. My peripheral neuropathy prevented me from feeling my cut toes. I didn’t know the damage until noticed a trail of blood. These are good clippers Especially on thick nails But be careful these things are extremely sharp
The clippers themselves are good. They are sharp and don't have a gap when you close them. However the leaf on them is a weak point. I've had 2 pair where the leaf has snapped while clipping. I can say that the life expectancy is about 3 years. First pair I had lasted from 2016-2019, and the 2nd pair lasted from 2019-2022.
I'm using Victorinox 8.2055.C nail clipper and it's way way better than standard cheap ones.
Outside for me! I have a balcony with bushes below!
Belt Sander does wonders 😜
Women actually recommend nail nippers. Because trimmers tend to band nail off foot bed. So I've been looking at that tired of my nails and nail beds taking damage.
worth it ?
"This meeting is bullsh*t" socks?
Do me a big favor next time we have a meeting like this stay home and don't show up plz lol thanks buddy.
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Cut your nails outside? My wife thanks you!
I know a lady that trims her nails in the front room- on the carpet. Nasty.
Say hello to your wife for me.
@@iComplainer How did you know?!