EDJY Toenail Cutter
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EDJY Toenail Cutter
Meet the world’s first single-blade toenail cutter—engineered to cleanly cut, not crush. Built to make trimming toenails easier.
Better visibility for a challenging task
The shortened lever improves sightlines for better control. This design may capture fewer cuttings than our Fingernail Cutter, but the reduced force keeps them from flying across the room.
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For 144 years, cutting your nails has meant the same three problems:
- Finding somewhere quiet so you don't fling clippings across the room.
- Sweeping up the ones you missed anyway.
- Filing down the jagged edge the clipper left behind.
- The reason: Nail clippers don't cut your nails. They crush them.
Our founder, Jake Peters, spent 15 years asking the same question: why has nobody fixed this? We didn't want incremental. We wanted right. So we hired six engineers and two metallurgists and gave them five rules: easy to use, cleanly cut every nail, no flyaways, lasts multiple lifetimes, MADE IN THE USA. EDJY is a result of that process.
First, we bought every nail clipper we could find. Cheap ones, expensive ones, the 'premium' clippers that promise more and deliver the same. We ran them under high-speed cameras and microscopes. We measured force, edge retention, durability, and the quality of the cut itself. It's the most comprehensive study of nail clippers ever done. We know, because we looked.
Nail clippers aren't really blades. They're jaws. Two pieces of metal forced together by a lever until your nail fractures from the pressure. That fracture is the whole problem. It builds up enough stored energy to send your clipping flying across the room. It leaves the edge of your nail jagged and uneven. And then the clipper provides a file to fix the damage it just caused.
Some clippers offset the blades to soften the smash. Some grind them sharper. None of it changes the underlying mechanism; two blades hitting each other, dulling each other, leaving the same rough edge. You can't fix a two-blade design by making the blades nicer. You have to remove one of them.
Though there were some subtle differences, every clipper on the market shares the same problem.
The two metal jaws on traditional clippers either smash together (dulling them) or are slightly offset (which causes the metal to roll). These designs mean they have a limited lifespan and the blades must be engineered for durability, not precision cutting. The results shown in the image demonstrate the difference between the crushing or tearing and a clean EDJY cut.
One sharp blade, slicing into the top of your nail. No second jaw. No smash. No stored-up energy looking for somewhere to go.
That one decision changed every other part of the design. With less force needed, we could move the lever closer to the blade for control. With no metal-on-metal contact, the blade stays sharp for a lifetime. With a clean slice instead of a crush, the cutting doesn’t have the force to fly away; it falls into the cavity below.
Our pillars of value, sustainability, and American manufacturing are fundamental to our Company. We are committed to using environmentally friendly materials, reducing waste, and supporting local economies. By adhering to these principles, we aim to create a positive impact that extends beyond just our products and into the wider community.
Nail cutters shouldn't be disposable. So we built a custom machine to cycle ours 150,000 times; somewhere north of a lifetime of use.
The EDJY nail cutter went through dozens of prototypes (different steel formulas, different curves, different grinds) until we got the material perfect and geometry to match natural shape of your nail.
We obsess over the cut you'll make 50 years from now, not the one you make today.
Our factory sits just outside Detroit. Every component we use is made within 350 miles of it. That's not a marketing line; it's a supply chain. It means lower emissions, faster iteration when we want to improve something, and a paycheck that stays in our community.
At EDJY, innovation is in our DNA. We built the world's first single-blade nail cutter based on exhaustive research and intuitive design. Every aspect of our product—from the materials to the manufacturing process—focuses on quality, performance and longevity.
- Finding somewhere quiet so you don't fling clippings across the room.
- Sweeping up the ones you missed anyway.
- Filing down the jagged edge the clipper left behind.
- The reason: Nail clippers don't cut your nails. They crush them.
Our founder, Jake Peters, spent 15 years asking the same question: why has nobody fixed this? We didn't want incremental. We wanted right. So we hired six engineers and two metallurgists and gave them five rules: easy to use, cleanly cut every nail, no flyaways, lasts multiple lifetimes, MADE IN THE USA. EDJY is a result of that process.
First, we bought every nail clipper we could find. Cheap ones, expensive ones, the 'premium' clippers that promise more and deliver the same. We ran them under high-speed cameras and microscopes. We measured force, edge retention, durability, and the quality of the cut itself. It's the most comprehensive study of nail clippers ever done. We know, because we looked.
Nail clippers aren't really blades. They're jaws. Two pieces of metal forced together by a lever until your nail fractures from the pressure. That fracture is the whole problem. It builds up enough stored energy to send your clipping flying across the room. It leaves the edge of your nail jagged and uneven. And then the clipper provides a file to fix the damage it just caused.
Some clippers offset the blades to soften the smash. Some grind them sharper. None of it changes the underlying mechanism; two blades hitting each other, dulling each other, leaving the same rough edge. You can't fix a two-blade design by making the blades nicer. You have to remove one of them.
Though there were some subtle differences, every clipper on the market shares the same problem.
The two metal jaws on traditional clippers either smash together (dulling them) or are slightly offset (which causes the metal to roll). These designs mean they have a limited lifespan and the blades must be engineered for durability, not precision cutting. The results shown in the image demonstrate the difference between the crushing or tearing and a clean EDJY cut.
One sharp blade, slicing into the top of your nail. No second jaw. No smash. No stored-up energy looking for somewhere to go.
That one decision changed every other part of the design. With less force needed, we could move the lever closer to the blade for control. With no metal-on-metal contact, the blade stays sharp for a lifetime. With a clean slice instead of a crush, the cutting doesn’t have the force to fly away; it falls into the cavity below.
Our pillars of value, sustainability, and American manufacturing are fundamental to our Company. We are committed to using environmentally friendly materials, reducing waste, and supporting local economies. By adhering to these principles, we aim to create a positive impact that extends beyond just our products and into the wider community.
Nail cutters shouldn't be disposable. So we built a custom machine to cycle ours 150,000 times; somewhere north of a lifetime of use.
The EDJY nail cutter went through dozens of prototypes (different steel formulas, different curves, different grinds) until we got the material perfect and geometry to match natural shape of your nail.
We obsess over the cut you'll make 50 years from now, not the one you make today.
Our factory sits just outside Detroit. Every component we use is made within 350 miles of it. That's not a marketing line; it's a supply chain. It means lower emissions, faster iteration when we want to improve something, and a paycheck that stays in our community.
At EDJY, innovation is in our DNA. We built the world's first single-blade nail cutter based on exhaustive research and intuitive design. Every aspect of our product—from the materials to the manufacturing process—focuses on quality, performance and longevity.