How Genuine Czech Glass Nail Files Are Made?

I like to watch the Discovery channel, where a great show runs around the lunch time: “How it’s made”. Successful traditional companies invite the TV crew to the production to demonstrate how they manufacture their products. I am often amazed at human ingenuity and how, at first glance, complex tasks are solved very easily. It is a well of ideas and I would like to be inspired and I would like to inspire you as well. I will show you: “How we make glass nail files”.

Glass As a Basic Ingredience

The role of an excellent chef is not only to be able to cook well, but to find great ingredients. Our unique raw material is clear glass, which can be purchased in meter panels. On a large cutting table, the glass is then divided into smaller pieces corresponding to the length of the resulting glass nail files.

The process of cutting glass is very interesting. You can’t take a knife and start slicing it like an onion. The glass is too hard and brittle for you to do so. Instead of a knife, you have to use a diamond blade and just scrape the glass from the top. Then just bend it slightly and it will break.

Etching Of The Abrasive Surface

The next step in production is the most important, because it is part of our closely guarded know-how. Therefore, I will be careful what I tell you and what I keep for myself. We will produce the indestructible abrasive surface of the glass nail file.

Traditional rasp makers cut a tooth by tooth into the file with a chisel. Everyone suspects that cutting tooth by tooth into a glass is probably not the best business idea. So how do we do it? The glass sheets are immersed in strong acid and under controlled conditions the acid will etch dimples with sharp edges into glass iself. Etching is mainly about experience, as well as cooking cheap spaghetti so that they are so-called “al dente”.

Grinding To Final Shape

After etching, the tables are cut into narrow strips, which finally begin to resemble nail files. But the strips have sharp edges, no tip and overall it’s not done yeat. Automatic CNC machining comes into play. A clever machine that grinds a top quality glass nail file from a square glass strip in one precise stroke. If I have so far compared the production of glass files with cooking, you won’t really find such a helper in the kitchen.

At that moment, the file is almost done. We still have to wash it to get rid of dirt and small particles after grinding. Eventually, he goes through the final quality control and travels to the warehouse, where it waits. It is waiting for a customer who orders files with their color, decoration, or company logo, but that is a different story.

I hope you can now imagine how small glass nail files are made from large glass panes. And if you like our products and would like to cooperate with us, do not hesitate to contact us.